Recent content by TexRedNK

Sounds like it is time for me to pitch my two SD receivers and install my two HD boxes I have in reserve ! Recent storms had blown my oval dish out of alignment and re-aiming did not return useful signals. Thanks guys ! You always have the answers.

Thanks Fizbi. Sorry to see the feeds go away. I have enjoyed many hours of events that only get 20 seconds on the evening news IF that.

I have recently switched from Hughes HDL SD receivers because I am told that the broadcasters will soon cease to transmit SD programs. I am a member of eBay and I found four HR24 receivers there at reasonable prices. CAUTION: Get the Receivers ID numbers and check with DirecTV to verify...

Hey Guys, I have three SD receivers on the oval dish with 4 multiplexer outputs. So I have one coax to each receiver. In the past weeks I noticed something strange on my online guides. When I do a dish set up and go to dish C, for the 101 W satellite, I have absolutely ZERO signal strength. Also...

Hey guys.. Been a while since I posted. I should have listed 39 mm as 39 cm.. and I did not spell some words correctly.. BUT I think you get my message. !

I have a 15 yr (or older) HH Stab motor with a 39 mm off center dish. High local winds have taken the alignment off target. The physical switch that moves the motor is defective. I installed this motor when I upgraded to a 39 dish some 10-15 yrs ago. When I send the motor to zero position and...

Hey Guys, I have been happy with Verizon's FIOS for years. The discounts ran out and I upped my speeds to save some money for a year. NOW Verizon has dumped all the residential customer here in Garland, TX to Frontier Communications in NY state. When I do speedtest.net, it starts out around...

Well guys, time to close this link !! I did another site survey after seeing that a neighbors tree was imposing on my view of the three HD DTV satellites. I moved to the car port on the opposite corner from my FTA dish. I attached the mount to the square metal post with straps and 4 inch 1/4...

Those of you that have FTA dishes and can connect to the two free channels on 91 W will probably be able to watch both conventions on ABC NewsOne. I was able to watch both the raw feeds back in 2012. I did not have to watch a banner or crawler or listen to some pundant explain to me what I just...

Ok Guys I have done some more research. I built a short RG6 jumper and opened the shield in the middle and cut the copper center conductor and brought it up and away from the shield. I then soldered a dipped silver mica 5000 pf cap onto the two leads. This will allow me to connect my FS1 meter...

OK Raine, Have you used your FS1 to set up any of the FTA sats ? I keep my dish parked on sat 92 W, to watch the two back hauls from ABC. And yes, all the SD transponders for the older 18 inch dishes was circular polarized. But the new Ka sats are higher frequencys and and are listed as either...

OK OK.!!. That is what I have been doing. BUT I bought this digital satellite meter to give me more accurate readings like the DTV installers get. I still only have transponder readings in the 90s ONLY on sat 101. Would like to do much better on sat 99 and sat 103 as protection against future...

Hey Jimbo, Yes, I know about Sat 101 being the major Sat, but how do I get a meter to register the signal and quality values. Without that I am having to take HR-24 receiver and TV to the Dish site and monitor the signal levels at the transponder level on the TV. Does anyone have any...

Hey Guys, Been a while since I posted. I did not find a similar post for the FS1 and DTV dishes. This Spring I found a great sale on a 50 inch flat screen smart (Roku) TV that was under $400 before taxes. So wife agreed it was time to make the big leap and move up from SD tv to HD TV ! Now I...

Ok Titanium, I will do some more research and gather information and post the results . Also I will look at your previous post about the motor. Glad to understand that the USALS setting is hard wired to the motor while the DiSEqC 1.2 is set by user in the software.