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After an approximately five-year break due to a combination of busy schedules, a couple of moves, and a lack of working gear, I'm excited to finally be setting up a Ku-Band dish at my new house. I dug my old Pansat 2500A receiver, Ku LNB and motor out of storage, picked up a new 90CM dish...

Now that winter's over and it's warming up, I'm finally out to re-aim my dish. Long story short, but I didn't have stuff set up over the winter and my receiver ended up in storage. Unfortunately, although I knew exactly where the receiver was, I can't seem to find the remote, and therefore I...

Well, we're looking at putting together an SNG trailer at the station I work for. I'm in charge of the project (since I have "the most experience with satellites" due to my FTA hobby) despite having NO experience with uplinks. Anyway--the first question I figured I should look into is FCC...

While browsing around today, I came across MotoSAT--a company that makes mobile satellite internet and TV products. They sell self-deploying, motorized dishes for RVs and vans--but I could only find dishes for DirecTV, Dish Network, and Internet. Just curious--does anyone know where I might...

Well, I'm working with our cable channel. Long story, but we're looking to bring in as much programming as possible via satellite. Our question is, does anyone know what, if any, FTA channels might be able to provide us with programming? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Hey all, I just came across UonTV. That is pretty much the coolest idea I've ever heard of! I'm thinking about putting a show together, but I was wondering what kind of viewership the channel gets. Any ideas? Also, has anyone here put a show on? I'd love to check it out! (In fact, I would...

Hey, I'm working with our local access station and high school to start up a newscast. Long story, but we licensed the CNN Newsource feeds and we're working to configure the receiver--a Scientific Atlanta D9223. So--long story short--I took the receiver and a monitor outside, aimed the...

Hey all, This isn't really satellite related, but I thought somebody here might be able to help me out with this. (TuxCoder?) Anyway, I'm trying to set up a closed-circuit channel with my friend next door. The problem is--"next door" is right across the street, so I can't run a cable (and...

OK, I posted a while back that I'm trying to start a TV station, and I figured some of you here might be able to give me a hand. I've got a studio set and ready to go, but I need a way to get the signal out. I can't get a license to transmit over the air because of the transition to digital. I...

I'm trying to send out a video signal (from my live production suite--I'd like to put together a little TV show) out to my neighboorhood--I need to get it around 1/2 mile. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can pull this off?

Well, due to cost my idea of starting an FTA station went down the drain (unless someone will pay $30,000 per month for me ;) ). I decided to start small---I want to try to start a neighborhood news network--just a station for my neighborhood to pick up. The problem is distribution--any ideas...

I'm trying to point my dish at AMC-9--with only one small issue: My Pansat 2500A doesn't list AMC-9 as a satellite on the setup menu! I assume I have to program it in or something, can someone help me out here? What do I do?

I'm trying to find out which satellite my local news sends their satellite truck feeds out on. I checked IA6, and it doesn't seem to be there--I blind scanned the satellite while the satellite feed was on air, and no go. Has anyone come across a feed for WWTV (9 and 10 News)? If so, can anyone...

Well, I've always had a dream to start a TV station (loooooooong story), and I think a satellite station is the way to go. Problem is, I can't find any information on how to get equipment/license/or whatever is nessissary to send a satellite feed. Can any of you satellite geniuses send me in the...

My Pansat 2500 receiver came in today! :D Setup was unbelievalbly easy--I hooked everything up, spent about 5 minutes getting the dish pointed (at IA6, for the news feeds), and tuned right in to CBS Newspath--which apparently is a news feed channel! Awesome! Right now I'm doing a smart...

My receiver (Scientific America D9222, MPEG-1.5) wants "L-Band Frequency". How do I find this? I read somewhere that, to find the L-Band, I subtract the LO of my LNB (10.750Ghz) from the frequency I'm trying to pick up (where do I find that? I want the "Detroit Mux" on Anik F1) One other...

OK, now that my 30" dish is in, I could use a little help pointing it. Here's the dealio: until my Pansat receiver comes in, I'm planning on pointing it at Anik F1, where I can pick up a couple MPEG-1.5 channels that my current (err... outdated) receiver can pick up. A couple questions...

Hey, I'm wondering if I can get the Dish FTA channels (NASA mainly) with a DishPro Dish 500 LNB hooked up to a Pansat 2500. Thanks in advance for the help!

Hey, my Winegard 30" dish just came in today, and I'd like to mount it on a test rig (similar to this one that JonStevo set up). The problem is, when I put the dish on a flat surface, the elevation will only go to about 40 degrees, because the feed support rests on the dish's support. Being in...

I'm trying to turn off my Dish 301 so I can upgrade the software. (It's running 2.03). How the heck do I do that? The best I can figure out is hold the power button to restart it, but I can't make it turn off and stay off! Any advice?

OK, I finally got my old Dish 500 working again--I've got a signal and everything :D ! It's hooked up to a Dish 301 receiver. Now, understand that I can get NASA TV FTA through the Dish. Please note I do NOT want to use a signal illegally, I'm just trying to get a channel that I understand is...

I was just reading a thread about people picking up news feeds from Hurricane Frances. I was wondering how to do this with other live news feeds--would they be the gray "(feeds)" items listed on LyngSat? If not, how are they picked up? Thanks!

OK, I decided to look into an MPEG-2 receiver so I can pick up all the good stuff instead of being stuck with my current MPEG-1.5. However, (since my dad is the one paying and he already bought me a dish), I need it to be inexpensive (as in under $100, cheaper is better.) Any advice?

OK, my local library is giving my their old C-Band dish--about 6 feet, I would guess (It's on the roof, so I can't measure it yet). Anyway, they're about 2 miles from my house. My question is, how the heck do you transport the dish? Anyone have any advice? Thanks in advance!

Hey, I'm trying to set up my Dish 500 dish. I put in all my information, and for my zip it told me the following: Azimuth: 222 Elevation: 31 Skew: 116 I have a question for each of those. First, for elevation, the marks on the dish don' got as low as 31! Second, for skew, the marks don't...