Recent content by walrus1957

FaT Air- Does the 2-12-06 firmware have media player options? The firmware I have installed has a freeze lock up issue. Every once in awhile, usually every other day you have to power off the box in the back and reboot. Does the C2HS2-12-06-18:05E3CMT firmware ever lock up or freeze a...

Coimaster32- Thanks for the reply. I too was leaning toward a 10 footer, but would have to put in a bigger post. I can fit an 8.5 footer on the current mast and still have plenty ground clearance. If I go with a ten foot dish there would be problems if it snows using the current post that I...

Currently I have a 6 foot solid panel dish "WS International". For the most part it does quit well, there are only a few channels to weak to receive on the S9 openbox. However I wish to upgrade not only the dish but the receiver as well to truely expereince c-band programming. I want a dish...

Thanks for the response guys. Just got back from the cabin after watching Nebraska/Iowa game. Still stuffed from all the Turkey and dressing yesterday! Sounds like the issue with this box is unique. As far as posting a photo of screen shot, don't think it is needed. There are roughly 12 to...

I had some time recently to update my channel lists and scanned in several 8psk programs on my 6 foot C-band dish. The signal strength is a bit on the weak side for many of these stations (around 30% quality but have a few around 54%). All the channels display video and have great audio...

I hope the channel lists from my S9 Openbox attach properly. Maybe this will help answer any questions as to what a 4 ft offset dish can receive for C-band channels, and what a 6 ft solid panel prime focus dish can receive. I had the 4 ft offset dish set up for several years in the back yard...

I was experimenting with my new 6 foot solid panel prime focus dish last night and happened to be blind scanning 137W for any additional C-band channels using my Openbox S9 receiver. When to my surprise it picked up around 40 FTA channels, most of them RTV. I looked around and can not find...

OK- a question for Televisonarchieves; In your post of the photo from 1966 of you and your sister watching TV. That has to put your birth year around 1960? That means we are just a few years age difference. A generation I have been told is every ten years? I do not consider myself a baby...

You have to transfer as much of the old home movies to DVD as you can. Old VHS is easy as you can play them and direct record to a DVD recorder. If they are on film then it's a bit more complicated unless you have the equipment to do the conversion and transfer. At the very least you are...

Wow- there Televisionarcives!. That old black and white set, can't beat them. Did you ever have to place a fan behind the set to keep the tubes cool when it got older? Seems like all I can remember is black and white TV for ages. Then Color TV was introduced, took several years before everyone...

Before I let this thread die- I had researched some of the toys we had in the early 60's that I remember playing with. Googeled some of the toy photos- thought I would share before I delete them from my pictures folder. I remember the Blue and Gray Civil War set that had real cannons that shot...

OK, now were talking. Just read responses from Iceberg and LoTech. If PBS carries the Red Green show then we have to save it! Seriously folks, PBS does carry some great programming, maybe not to everyones liking. But hate to see it go politics aside. OK, lets keep this in perspective. Are...

Sad but so true LoTech! I believe in much of what Dee_Ann has stated in this thread, however I do not trust our government anymore. For every dollar they rack in of our tax money, less than one cent actually goes to the intended program, the rest ends up in the political process and in some...

OK, I see a problem facing you. The prior tests do not add up to what your receiver is telling you. Now here is an objective question. What is the actuall lnb LO frequency of each lnb? You are measuring these two different ways with different devices. The actual LO frequency of each lnb will...

Like Dishman Dan suggested you can just cut off the end of the cord and replace the end. The first Openbox S9 I ordered came with the wrong plug adaptor and I too experienced what you are going through. I did not want to do anything to void the box warranty so I went to radio shack and picked...