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That's the first thing I thought of, but no shorts found. IN addition, the time to complete a cycle was the same with and without the LNB attached, I had tried a firmware update from satellite and I think that Is what went wrong. I think I am stuck in a "boot loop'. Now the question ism how...

[[I can't find the FTA forum. If this post is n the wrong forum, please move it.] My GeosatPro Micro HD has died. I've tried several power cycles with no effect. When powered-up,the Power LED is green, screen black. After several seconds, the PowerLED flashes red, then back to green. A few...

The heavy current draw was due to the C/Ku band LNBF I was using. I swapped that out and the current draw dropped in half. I seem to still have a problem. Here is what I'm doing... From the receiver I go into a 4x1 DiSEqC 1.0 switch. One port of the switch goes to a 1M dish with a Stab...

I noticed that I was randomly 'loosing' horizontally polarized transponders. I measured the DC voltage coming out of the receiver and found it was around 17V (H) and 12V (V), dropping even lower on occasion. My guess was the LNBF was switching from (H) to (V) during some of these voltage...

I am looking for a powered 4X1 (4 LNBF's to 1 receiver), or an powered inline buffer amp. There are a lot of relatively cheap powered switches, but they are designed for DBS (DirectTV, etc) and select inputs based on polarity (i.e. voltage). The usual 4X1 FTA switches are powered by the feed...

Oops! Not exactly what I thought. If using DiSEqC 1.2 positioning you do have to set each satellite's position yourself. Not too bad in my case since the Gbox already had the position of each satellite stored in memory. All I had to do was to set the position number for each satellite in...

After rereading the review and other info I found I decided to go ahead with the mHD. It arrived today and from what I've seen so far, all I can say is 'fantastic'. I have it hooked to a Gbox which is driving a 3M dish equipped with a Universal LNBF (5150 - 10750). I'm sure it was covered in...

My second Pansat TC-1000HD died today which leaves me without a S2 receiver. I have had it with Pansat. Can you believe their fix for overheating was to suspend a fan between the tuner housing and a PCB and gooping all three with epoxy to hold it onto place (which makes all three...

My 921 has stopped working. Signal strength flips between 10 and 90 regardless of where dish is pointed. No longer receives usable signal. Happens on both C and Ku bands. Disconnect LNB and signal strength stays at 10. LNB voltage OK (approximately 20VDC). Any idea what's wrong?

I get an 'Encompass' test pattern 0n 101, 102, & 103

Yes, a 4DTV receiver. When Mot pulled the plug on 4DTV I mothballed my DSR921, DSR922 and HDD-200. I tried DirecTV and Dish. Great receivers / DVR's, but terrible customer service and too expensive once the promo deals expired, ditto on cable. I decided to dust off the 4DTV gear and see...

I'm trying to resurrect my old C / Ku band hardware. I found a bird that has the following DC-2 channels: Current-TV (Ch 105), M-Net (North America) (Ch 110), Here-TV (Ch 111), Documentary (Ch 112) & Africa (Ch 117). M-Net & Documentary are in the clear. I did a search on Lyngsat, but...

Yes, I double checked just to be sure. There is an firmware update for the receiver. I put the '.bin' on a flash drive as per the instructions, but it ignores it. One more thing I've seen is the receiver gets into a strange slow mode where it takes at least 2 seconds to move from one menu...

I've used the Stab positioner with several different Pansat receivers in 'USALS' positioning mode and never had a problem. Set my Lat / Lon and it hits every satellite dead on. I seem to be missing something with the Pansat TC-1000 however. For some reason it just isn't landing on the...

Anyone have a picture looking down the throat of a working BSC-621? I'd like to compare it to mine and make sure everything is where it's supposed to be. For example the orientation of the Ku-band probes relative to the C-band probes relative to the support bar.