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    Geosat Pro Micro HD problem

    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...
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    Geosat Pro Micro HD problem

    [[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...
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    Looking for a 4X1 powered switch or buffer amp.

    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...
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    Looking for a 4X1 powered switch or buffer amp.

    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...
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    Looking for a 4X1 powered switch or buffer amp.

    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...
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    Pansat TC-1000HD died today

    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...
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    Pansat TC-1000HD died today

    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...
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    Pansat TC-1000HD died today

    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...
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    [4DTV] Signal strength flips between 10 & 90 regardless of dish position (4DTV DSR921)

    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?
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    Which bird am I on (has M-Net, Documentary, Here-TV and a few other Digicipher-2 channels)

    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...
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    Which bird am I on (has M-Net, Documentary, Here-TV and a few other Digicipher-2 channels)

    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...
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    TC-1000 and Stab HH 120

    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...
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    TC-1000 and Stab HH 120

    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...
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    Is Ku band on the DMX-741 better than on the BSC-621?

    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.
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    Is Ku band on the DMX-741 better than on the BSC-621?

    I'm in the SF Bay Area and have been working mainly with SatMex-6 and G-19. Please note, it's not a 'footprint' problem. I have a little motorized DirecPC dish that pulls in the Ku channels perfectly, as did the 3M dish with the original C/Ku band Corotor-2 feedhorn. I just tried...
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    Is Ku band on the DMX-741 better than on the BSC-621?

    I'm getting excellent C-band performance from my BSC-621 (Pansat 3500SD+ and 3M Orbitron mesh), but the Ku band is terrible. For example, on the C-band side of SatMex-6 I'm getting SQ readings in the 95% to 98% range, but I'm lucky to get 10% on the Ku side. I've spent hours tweaking the f/d...
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    Gbox with skew (Polarotor) control

    It's been a while since I've monitored the forums. I remember talk of a Gbox coming out that had skew control built in. I've held off buying one, waiting for the new model with this feature, but, with Mot pulling the plug on 4DTV, I can't put it off much longer. Anyone know the current status...
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    SaveTV with 4DTV and HDD200? I need help!

    No, the USB interface in the HDD200 tunes the 4DTV using an IRblaster. I would still like to know how you have set the SageTV options in the R5000 software and if you have set SageTV to not send channel change when the channels are the same. If I had it to do over again I would install the...
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    SaveTV with 4DTV and HDD200? I need help!

    After months of trying, I still can't get things working properly. My worst problem is missing channel changes, or having recordings chopped up by retunes. I have the R5000 mod in my HDD200 and am using an IRblaster to tune the 4DTV. If anyone here has this hardware configuration, I'd like to...
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    C-band recording revisited

    I have two HDHomeRun's on the network. SageTV sees them, scans the channels, etc., but there is a problem. The lip sync is so bad, even on a single channel, that it's unwatchable. By contrast, I can have all 4 tuners going with EyeTV and they are all perfect. I guess when my modified...
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    C-band recording revisited

    Are there examples of any of this online?
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    C-band recording revisited

    I just received an explanation of the difference between 'Placeshifter' and 'Client' on the SageTV forum. It appears what I need, in addition to the Media Center software is two Clients. I've downloaded the demo's and will give it a try.
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    C-band recording revisited

    What I am planning to do is to get the HDR5000 mod's to my HDD-200, run SageTV Media Center on a Mac Mini for local viewing and scheduled recordings. I'll probably go with the Placeshiter version so I can also control the receiver, do scheduling, view videos from a MacBook via WiFi or wired LAN...
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    C-band recording revisited

    It looks like SageTV will do the job. $99 for the Mac PlaceShifter is comparable to what I initially paid for a 3 computer license for EyeTV. It appears SageTv doesn't have a C-band schedule available so it basically would serve as a timer. I guess it is possible that the 4DTV channels might...