Recent content by wagonman76

  • WELCOME TO THE NEW SERVER!

    If you are seeing this you are on our new server WELCOME HOME!

    While the new server is online Scott is still working on the backend including the cachine. But the site is usable while the work is being completes!

    Thank you for your patience and again WELCOME HOME!

    CLICK THE X IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER OF THE BOX TO DISMISS THIS MESSAGE
  1. W

    It got dark

    I went to Findlay Ohio. I’d say it was more dusk than dark. But still super cool and much better weather than one could hope for in early April. I saw the one in 2017 too.
  2. W

    Repurposing broken actuators

    This link is what we use at work. But I like the Venture guide, it shows additional applications. https://dresserutility.com/wp-content/uploads/NGS-IPG-0028.pdf
  3. W

    What Happened to Everybody?

    ^You might have to tune in the dish after that long. I read somewhere the declination angle in the sky changes over time and you’re supposed to adjust it every year or two or whenever it goes out. I’m still running my Echostar C band LNB that was on the dish when I got my house in 1999. I...
  4. W

    Patient Channel 87w

    I know it's not the same, but I found this. Links to the clips that were shown on the Patient Channel (Wellness Network). The passcode 02173 was on a neighboring link on the first page of Google. I happened to see both and used them together. https://www.healthclips.com/facility/02713/Library
  5. W

    What Happened to Everybody?

    I still have my 920 and 922. Haven’t used them since 2016. Think I paid around $250 for the 922. The 920 I got for free later on. I much preferred the 920 piggybacked to the analog box. The 922 would store the satellite position every time you bumped the dish and that drove me nuts. Other than...
  6. W

    What Happened to Everybody?

    On a lot of industrial equipment, the satellite actuator is just an Andco actuator which they’ve built since the 70s. We use them as a substitute for a pneumatic cylinder on knife gates and rotary valves, but they show a satellite dish in the list of applications. And where you can use an Andco...
  7. W

    BUDs Bath in Warm Winter!! : - )))

    I have washed my dish. Not only to make it look a little better, but to hopefully make snow not stick as bad. Think I used Simple Green and a bristle brush. Every year I think about going over the whole thing with wax to maybe really help, but never get around to it. Summer too short as it is here.
  8. W

    Need help receiving PBS on 99W with my setup

    Here in northern lower Michigan I’ve never had an issue with the 99W PBS and they’ve always been very good. Right now I am getting 86% quality on both polarities (Montana PBS one one, and then Create, World, etc. on the other). I do have a 10 ft dish however.
  9. W

    BUDs Bath in Warm Winter!! : - )))

    Looks good! Yeah we had about 45F in northern lower Michigan, and looks to be about the same for Christmas too. Nothing new though, 1997 another El Nino year we got close to 70F around Christmas. I was hoping they would open the Dairy Queen.
  10. W

    This is likely 5G, right?

    Yes, good to check first. And even if the receivers are fine, there could be a bad spot in the cable from there to the dish.
  11. W

    This is likely 5G, right?

    I thought I was having 5g problems, though I was sure there was no 5g out here. It acted just like the way people describe 5g interference. Periodic breakup despite good quality numbers. I had checked cables, LNBs, everything, even tried one from Titanium. Turned out my FTA box wasn’t putting...
  12. W

    What Happened to Everybody?

    One reason I enjoy FTA is because I don’t like most of what’s on network TV today. Also I can only get a few OTA channels anyway. Those who live in/near big cities got a huge selection. But living in the sticks is a worthwhile tradeoff for me. And I won’t pay for streaming services. If I can’t...
  13. W

    What Happened to Everybody?

    I’m still here and will be until the end. No 5G out here and may not ever be, which is good. I enjoy looking around and seeing what I can find. And using the technology that to most people is long forgotten, that is if they know about it in the first place. Kinda like working on my old cars. I...
  14. W

    What Happened to Everybody?

    https://www.mcnichols.com/ This is the company my work uses. They have a huge selection of meshes, expanded metal, perforated sheet, etc. They might have the matching material for your dish.
  15. W

    LNBF problem

    For me, X4 means the satellite at 105W that had the last run of 4DTV before it ended.
See more
Top
Back