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I was thinking that too as he was scribing the circles on coil metal. That metal wasn’t very thick and using the shears without gloves is begging for lacerations. And that work environment is less than sterile. And then the receiver that the older guy was using to setup and test the dish…I’ve...

Pretty amazing what they can do with so little. The guy doing the powder coating with just a rag across his mouth is bucking for an early demise though. Obviously designed for their neck of the woods with the elevation restrictions on the mount and beyond cheap but it works gor them.

That is actually pretty cheap nowadays to trim a couple of trees. What I did a few years ago is I rented a 45’ gas lift for a week and trimmed my own trees and that cost me $1400 and today a three man crew and a bucket lift is close to $3000 to hire out for a full day. I’ve got quite a lot of...

Also wind loading comes into play. All things being equal a solid dish requires a stronger mount with more concrete in the base and a stronger pole.

If any part of your pole isn’t vertical your elevation is going to be screwed up. You have indicated binding and your threaded rod is off as well. Fix those issues. Regardless what your elevation is telling you your not aimed at the satellite.

Cheap trick. Just adjust your elevation to get the highest background noise reading even if your not locked on to a transponder and from there start moving from east to west to increase your background noise levels and you can be pretty sure your aimed at some sort of satellite. From there do...

Dish is probably out of round. Read this thread that I started on these dishes several years ago; https://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/tek2000-10-mesh-dish-install-initial-review.369886/

It didn’t. Same orbital slot @ 125 west. Galaxy 30 and Music choice hasn’t come back up yet but it’s supposed to.

They switched satellites in the past few days and Music Choice is supposed to be back on transponder 22.

A bird dog is one of the best for consumers and DTH installers;

I would listen to Gary and others that have installed many dishes in the past. I have only done one big dish so I am really not in the place to troubleshoot it for you. Good luck.....

I think I would string test as has been suggested to see if your dish is warped. If the dish is out of symmetry nothing else you do is going to fix it.

If you have a Tek 10’ dish you can see from the pictures on post #29 where I bolted the rods. About 2/3rd the way up on the ribs on the outer ring of the mesh.

The LNB ‘looks‘ crooked in the holder but it might be the camera angle. It’s critical to center the lnb in the holder and make sure it’s equal all the way around the circumference. IE if on the top of the lnb it extends a half inch beyond the holder and on the sides or bottom it’s more or...

Most of us who have been in your shoes if we want it bad enough we bit the bullet and did it ourselves. I did a big thread a few years back here on my install process of the Tek 10' dish. Like many things you learn by doing and there are a lot of people here that you can bounce ideas and...

I ordered directly from Tek when I got my dish and I don't remember if I paid sales tax or not. I know my dish also came through Canada because it was shipped with Purolator and some of the items got hung up in Customs for awhile.

Tek is right on the U.S. / Canadian border. I bet he has two storefronts and if you order from the Canadian one you don’t get charged U.S. sales tax.

I did the 10' mesh install without any help. Put the dish together on the ground and rolled it over to the mount on the rim and then had to use a few small blocks of wood on the ground to rest the lip of the dish on so that the dish was high enough to be able to put on the mount. It was a...

The dish/mount must really be engineered well to endure all that extra weight as well as the wind load. With my mesh dish I'm constantly brushing it off in the winter but for you not to many ways to knock the ice off without risk of damaging the dish or mount.

You can get actuators from Rick’s as well as Tek2000, I have purchased from both no trouble.

As of last week the last time I checked 4105 V 4140 was active. It's 8-psk and 1/2 FEC.

Tek2000 sells the adapter that you need so I'm not sure why your looking somewhere else. Cheaper to ship if you order it at the same time you get the dish package. 3.5-inch to 4.5-inch O.D. Pole Adapter | Tek2000.com

His consumer grade 12' dish is about $250 cheaper than the commercial quality dish. 350cm (12ft) C/Ku-Band Prime Focus Mesh Satellite Dish | Tek2000.com

I don't know about the 12' dish but I did an indepth review of the 10' mesh dish from Tek a few years ago in this subforum and it's made it through a few severe Michigan Winters already with no problems. And the dishes have been improved since then. Quality dishes at pretty reasonable prices...

The dish is working fine and has survived a few bad Michigan winters now. If however, you think this would replace either a Dish or DirecTv subscription for most people this is not the case. Free to air comes and goes, never assume that a particular channel is going to remain FTA. For me this...