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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...

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 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...

Didn’t do much for the 4th of July, no fireworks, parties or drinking. Just stayed home and watched TV, did catch the Nations’ Capitol Fireworks on PBS. Must be getting old! Gee just how old are we getting, hmm, have to think a bit on that, let’s see what do I remember from my past? I started...

Just curious if anyone else has experieninced this glitch; When watching the CW's on 91W using the openbox S9 ocasionally the audio is out of sync with the video. If I reboot everything is fine, version is HDS-10-07-12-0290CMT green tint fix. I purchased this box in March of this year. Not...

Cooper Nuclear Plant. Fort Calhoun NE With all the heavy rain around here, things are finally starting to heat up! The flooding along the Misuori river has forced officials to build a berm around the power station at Fort Calhoun. The Brownsville Nuclear plant down stream in Nebraska is still...

Some time ago a freind of mine sent me a real degraded recording of a spoof song about pirating satellite TV "The Videocipher Blues". I have always wanted to make a spoof video about pirating satillite TV and use this song for background music. However the audio track is just to degraded for...

Friday evening June 17th 2011, just went to bed early after a very long week at work. Getting rested up for all the fun on Father's day. Friday afternoon was hot, just taken care of the dogs, noticed a storm building just over head. No clouds to the west, but building right over the top of the...

For those of you who do not like the satellite lists that come with the North American files for the Openbox S9 HD receiver, I thought I would post a few lists that I was tinkering with. I can not find the best list I created as it is lost among the many file folders on my laptop. Started a...

Just purchased a 6 foot solid panel dish and V-box mover, now I need an actuator arm. I want to be able to move the dish at least +/- 45 degrees from center to cover satellites I can view from my back yard. Does anyone have a recomendation for a quality brand of actuator and the size required?

I fought the cold, snow and wind all winter with Cband testing on my 1.2 meter dish. And now that the weather is finally starting to warm up I am fighting the freeze/thaw cycle and mushy ground from all the rain we have been having. The past few days I was out to the dish several times to...

FIELD TEST REVIEW of WS International Model: DMX242 Quad Polar, Dual Output, Digital C-Band LNBF I Have field tested several C-Band LNBF’s on a motorized 1.2 meter offset dish. Robby Dosetareh was kind enough to send me a DMX242 LNBF to field test and share the results with you. The DMX242...

Experiencing some problems today with dish alignment after snow blowing my mini bud dish. This got me thinking if there was still any interests in mini buds. Haven't noticed a whole lot of traffic concerning setting up an offset dish or experimenting with mini buds for C-band lately. Thought...

Does anyone know what happened to "The Sportman Channel" on 121W Galaxy 23? I tried to watch it yesterday but all I had was a black screen. Still receiving 94% quality from transponder (3724H, symbol rate 3002). Manually rescanned and picked up TVW2? I was getting The Sportman Channel in at 94%...

Thought I would share a littel bit of my hobby project. With channels leaving 123W KU, I went whole hog getting my mini C-Band dish project in gear. I purchased a 1.2 meter GeoSatPro dish from sateliteAV, the C-Band LNB was a dual purchased from this site on the special offer for around...

I mentioned some time ago the problems I was having with my SG2100 motor. It was an older unit that has seen a lot of use. One of the motor drive relays began to stick and on occassion drive only one direction. After troubleshooting the defective part I began to hunt for a cheap replacement...

I did some testing today with my new GeosatPro C2 C-band LNB. I had hoped that the GesatPro would out perform the C-band reception of the BSC621-2, however it appears to be the reverse. I only did one test on 99W for C-band Lesa and WHT. I was thinking about using this new LNB on a fixed point 1...

Just wondering if anyone has played around with the solar outage calculator? Happens twice a year, spring and fall! I have used the Intelsat Solar Outage Calculator in the past to confirm possible objects in the way of a potential dish setup. I often wondered if the solar noise would really...

Curious if anyone else has had the SG2100 motor fail, where it drives one direction only even after reset? My SG2100 motor that I purchased three or four years ago has really received a work out. This is my test motor that I have abused and received 1000 times the normal usage. It finally...

Does a quality C-band lnbf with a 13 Kelvin noise and 65-68 db gain exist? Seems when you get down to that low noise figure the best gain is around 55 db. Looking for a very low noise and high gain lnbf for a small dish project, gospell best I can find and chaparell 17K and 65 db gain. One...

I have always found it challenging to see just how far to the limits you can push things. Corresponding in a few recent threads the topic of getting C-band on a small dish has come up. I am just curious as to the extent of how much interest might be out there to start up a new thread covering...

I am watching Figthing Sioux Hockey currently on Galaxy 17. UND is beating up on the Denver Pioneers. Is anyone else watching this game? This is a great broadcast for hockey, and wondering if anyone knows if other Universities are doing similiar broadcasts?

Have you ever wondered how much it costs to lease transponder air time? I was doing a little research today and ran across an article written in 2008 relating to the satellite broadcast markets. Here is a copy and paste of information relating to transponder lease rates: The part of a...

This might be the wrong section to post this question so please bear with me. I am trying to help a friend that purchased a "ITB DM45" motor 3 years ago and does not have the users guide for it. It appears to be the same as my SG2100 motor, but his is tagged "ITB DM45". I know some web stores...