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    Winegard 10ft actuator suggestions?

    Thanks for the help/suggestions guys. Lone Gunman: Yeah, the heim joint (thanks for the term!) plastic plug is hollow and seems to be very brittle.. When trying to "massage" it out of the end of the arm, pieces of it started to chip away pretty easily.
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    Winegard 10ft actuator suggestions?

    I'm not sure what exactly it's called, but it's the pivot joint at the end of the actuator arm that attaches to the polar mount. See pic attached.
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    Winegard 10ft actuator suggestions?

    I did end up disassembling the JGS actuator and could easily clean and re-lubricate it, but the plastic/nylon eyelet on the end of the actuator looks suspect and I don't know where to get a new one. It has seized up - tried putting some grease and loosening it up, but it's still really stiff...
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    Winegard 10ft actuator suggestions?

    I've recently acquired a Winegard Pinnacle 10ft dish and the JGS Engineering brand actuator needs to be replaced. A few years ago I had a KTI dish with the Venture actuator that came with it. It was made in such a way that I couldn't take it apart and re-lubricate it properly. This actuator...
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    Name That Positioner!

    Well, I just answered my own question.. Dumped the program EPROM and it had a copyright string: "MTI 4100 Remote IR Antenna Drive Copyright 1984, PenTec/MTI By: John C. Aiken" Time to start google-ing I suppose..
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    Name That Positioner!

    Found this for a buck in a pile of old electronics the other day, and it appears to work.. however, I don't have any information about it, or how it's supposed to be hooked up. Figuring out how to hook the actuator up will be simple, but sensor and skew servo might be a little harder. Bonus...
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    Prodelin fun!

    So, I suppose this is actually about messing around with a mini-BUD.. hope it's ok to post in this sub forum with the big-guns! I've had a Prodelin 1.2m fiberglass dish for quite some time, but never did much with it. Hated the BUC sucking up my other polarity on the OMT. I was curious what...
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    Hughes BUC Question

    I've attached a picture of the entire assembly and one of the connectors in question. Hope that helps :)
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    Hughes BUC Question

    I've acquired an old 1.2m VSAT dish that has an OMT, with an LNB and a BUC from Hughes. There are two ports on the BUC, one is labeled 'IFL' and the other 'AP.' I know what IFL is for, but what is AP for? Is that just a test port? Note: I have no intention of actually using the BUC for...
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    SF/bay area FTA dealers?

    Hmm, looks good, but they don't appear to sell motors?
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    SF/bay area FTA dealers?

    Does anybody know of any FTA satellite equipment dealers in San Francisco or surrounding area? Would I be better off just buying online and biting my tongue at the shipping costs of a new dish? I'm just looking for a simple 90-100cm Ku offset dish and motor.
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    Unity 4000 Mpeg2 IRD

    Again, all I did to get it to play nice was to zero everything out except the beginning of the EEPROM. The information I was supposed to post a while back is here: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~akeym/unity4k/ I never finished the page, but it gives some insight as to what's going on, as well...
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    Unity 4000 Mpeg2 IRD

    Had some issues with the big dish.. namely, my 15 year old actuator arm seized up. I was able to put another used one I had laying around into service for the time being but I'm going to ultimately need to buy a new one. Anyway, I got my box locked onto a Compel stream on G17 and it...
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    Unity 4000 Mpeg2 IRD

    I decided to go back and take a look at my receiver again. Turns out whatever signal I was feeding it for testing before wasn't appropriate for the unit. Not sure what I was doing wrong in the past, and I've moved and set up shop again since then. I have been able to unlock the unit to allow...
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    4DTV Receiver Compatibility

    Unfortunately my response to this falls into the realm of hack-talk. It's a part of one of my many long-term projects that gets neglected because I move every few months, go to school, and work. I may still end up SOL and need to just buy a non-dead receiver, but discussing my methods of...
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    4DTV Receiver Compatibility

    Thanks for the info! Guess I'm just going to have to try harder to make my box spit out video for ZK or FP stuff without need for authing.. I spent 5 bucks on my receiver and I'll be damned if I pay any more money for another Motorola-controlled brick.
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    4DTV Receiver Compatibility

    What DC2 receivers are capable of being sub'd to 4DTV services? I hear a lot about the DSR-410, DSR920/21/22, 905 sidecar - but what about the commercial receivers? the DSR-4200V, the 4410, 4800, etc etc? Can I get one of these authorized for use on Sky Vision/SRL programming packages? And...
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    C-Band VSAT System

    I believe it's pointed that way because of roof work done in years past. Also, I know of about 4 Prodelin set-ups that I could get for free today, but they all lack the feedhorn/mounting tray making them rather useless to me. *cough* Wait until Edward Jones offices get converted to fibre and...
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    C-Band VSAT System

    Is offset an issue/concern? What about being round? I'm guessing this causes signal loss of some sort? The custom feedhorn is concerning though, but I'm not worried about being fixed - I knew that from the beginning and that is what I'd be using it for.
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    C-Band VSAT System

    Images attached. A removal crew has been assembled and may actually be down tomorrow, if not the next few days. Ideas as to what this is?
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    C-Band VSAT System

    I recently found what appears to be a C-Band VSAT dish with the BUC, OMT, LNB and reject filter available for me to pluck off a roof for free. Owner says it has been unused for 17 years, and was previously used by a Farmers Insurance agent/agency. It is a large not-quite-fully parabolic...
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    skew on AMC1

    After getting some sleep and reading back (hadn't noticed a _second_ page to the thread while searching) I see that this has been a problem since launch. However, this does not seem to explain why only within the past year or so I haven't been able to get AMC1 NBC news feeds. If it really were...
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    skew on AMC1

    I have DVB-S2 tuners, but I'm talking about the occasional SD DVB-S news feeds. The ones listed on Lyngsat used to be accurate? Are they still and I just need to play more with the skew?
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    skew on AMC1

    Sorry to bring up an old subject, but exactly how long has this skew been an issue? I didn't have problems with AMC1 and NBC feeds until sometime in 2009 when I moved. I always figured I set up the dish wrong at my new location.. but everything else in the arc worked just fine.. including AMC1...
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    Prof 7301, 7500 and 8000 Tuners

    Good to know. Next time I get to play with it, I'll pull from his repo for the base dvb/v4l stuff and patch from there.
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