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  1. B.J.

    SG2100..... Digipower vs DMSI?

    I'm curious what people's opinion of the various kinds of SG2100 motors are, particularly between the Digipower and the DMSI? As mentioned in other thread, I recently moved my 90CM Fortec to the top of my garage, and was having problems (which turned out to be mainly due to the flakey...
  2. B.J.

    zero position on SG2100

    As mentioned in other post, I had my SG2100 motor apart a couple times today, and I just happened to look more closely at the workings, and I found that I am either wrong, or seriously confused about how the darn thing works. When I got my SG2100, I quickly noticed that when I'd send a goto...
  3. B.J.

    Another WEIRD problem.

    Just one day after having the weird coax failure on my BUD, I decided to go on to my next project, which was to move my 90CM Fortec / SG2100 up to the roof of my garage, where it will have a better view of the sky. I had already installed the pipe I was going to mount it on, so I figured, that...
  4. B.J.

    Weird failure

    The last couple days, it has seemed to me that my C-band wasn't quite as good as it had been even a week ago, but I figured that I still wasn't quite in alignment. Well yesterday, I tuned in G28, and watched my NFL game on an S2 channel, so it wasn't working TOO terribly. Today, I tried...
  5. B.J.

    ? Audio on Huskervision ???

    Does anyone happen to be watching the Nebraska Huskervision channel on G28 today?? I finally got my new SAMI up on the old Orbitron pole that I moved, and turned it to G28, where I plan to use it tomorrow. Locked all the transponders fine, but I can't seem to get any audio on Huskervision...
  6. B.J.

    Orbitron down. SAMI on the way...

    Well, as mentioned in another thread, I decided to replace my OLD Orbitron with a new SAMI dish, but the exchange is complicated by the fact that we decided to MOVE the new dish to a new location which has a better view of the sats, and isn't located under an 18,000V power line, and right behind...
  7. B.J.

    10' Orbitron to a good home (Me/NH)

    I plan to be replacing my 10' Orbitron within the next week or so, with a new SAMI. Unless I can find a good home for the Orbitron, I'll probably be carting it off to the local dump. I know that there are a couple people here from the Maine/NH area, so I thought I'd check to see if anyone was...
  8. B.J.

    motor recommendations for 1.2?

    I just mounted a new pole on my fairly new garage, and was intending to re-locate my 90cm Fortec/SG2100 up there. However within the last couple weeks, my SG2100 has been going beserk. It's been losing it's reference position on almost a daily basis, sometimes more frequently, and it's been...
  9. B.J.

    how to adjust Ajax H-H worm play?

    My 10' Orbitron is on an Ajax H-H. This drive has developed quite a bit of slop, which I assume must be in the worm drive. Before I waste a lot of time trying to fix this, I thought I'd ask whether anyone here knows how to get rid of this free play? There are 2 big bolts holding the...
  10. B.J.

    Air Show

    I just ran across a transponder with an air show from Chicago. Just saw an F-18 demo fly, and a black-hawk chopper demo and they said the Blue Angels would be flying later. They have the audio from a radio station, WBBM. It's on Galaxy-16 99.0W 11771V SR=14321 , ie the CBS-Newspath, so they...
  11. B.J.

    ? TSREADER capabilities with S2 capable cards?

    I've been looking to pick up another S2 capable PC card receiver to compliment or even replace my TT3200 and Twinhan 1020a cards (Twinhan isn't S2 capable, and I'm always having to switch cables to look at Ku S2 signals since I generally keep the Twinhan on Ku, and TT on C-band). I've been...
  12. B.J.

    Genpix phones home.

    I guess this isn't surprising this day and age, but I just noticed that every time I run my Genpix Skywalker-1, that it gets on the internet and calls www.genpix-electronics.com , ie 74.220.207.147 , and first gives the info that I'm running it with TSREADER, then it issues some GET LATEST...
  13. B.J.

    Azbox on 7/8 FEC transponders

    If anyone runs across any transponders with 7/8 FEC, I'd be interested in whether your Azbox will lock the transponder with multiple FEC and modes. I ran into a DVB-S QPSK feed this morning with 7/8 FEC, and it did VERY strange things with my Azbox. I found the signal via a spectrum scan, and...
  14. B.J.

    How to link DVD files together

    Just curious whether there is a way to get the Azbox to play the multiple .vob type files from a DVD strung together, so as not to have to start each file manually? Ie say I have a DVD on a network computer, then go into the Azbox file manager. If I start playing a movie by playing say...
  15. B.J.

    ? Huskervision blank???

    I went over to G28 today to look at the NET "Huskervision" channel. Transponder locked, but nothing there. Pulled it up in TSREADER using two different receivers, and it was basically all NULL BYTES, except for periodic &H47 sync bytes. Basically just no content to the transponder at all...
  16. B.J.

    Don't throw away dead switches

    I know that I have said this before, but I had yet another example of this, so I figured that it was worth posting again. I used a 2 port diseqC A/B tone burst switch for many years with no problems, but I needed more ports so I bought a 4 port diseqC switch. I used this for a short while...
  17. B.J.

    A decade of sat positions

    Not sure if this is of any interest, but I just put this spreadsheet together for my own use, and it looked like it might be of use to other people too.
  18. B.J.

    MPEG4/AC3 audio problems on recordings.

    ? Recorded some MPEG4 HD with AC3 audio today via TSREADER and another receiver. Played back OK via VLC. Tried to play it back through the AZBOX. The video played fine, but the audio was that zapp zapp sound that happens occasionally with the Azbox. Seems like when that happens on a sat...
  19. B.J.

    ? Turn off via remote ???

    Can you trun off an Azbox via the remote??? I generally turn off my Azbox by flipping the switch in the back. I was just doing some experiments to see if the Azbox passed RF through the passthru when switched off, and wanted to compare that to turning off via the remote, which I've never done...
  20. B.J.

    ?? Rebooting via telnet ???

    I think I mentioned this once before, but wasn't sure this was repeatable. Anyway, this is the 2nd or 3rd time that this has happened. I locked up the Azbox, in a strange way that I'll mention later. I got tired of getting up out of my chair and flipping the switch on the Azbox to reboot, or...
  21. B.J.

    DN info built into Azbox firmware

    I think I've noticed this file in there before, but never looked at it. In the DISK2 directory on the Azbox, there is a file named ussat_ch_map.csv . This looks to be a Dishnet channel list. The file is also in the protected backup directory. I'm a bit curious why it's there, and why they...
  22. B.J.

    PBS feed schedules

    Since there was a bit of discussion of some scheduling info in the thread about BBC News, I decided to try something I did several years ago, and that is to try to go through ALL of the AMC-21 PBS feeds, and write down what's on each for as many hours of the day as is possible. I've started...
  23. B.J.

    ? Menu transparency ?

    I was just fooling around with the Azbox, and apparently did something that it didn't like, and had to reboot it. When it came back up, I couldn't see the menus behind the video. Ie, I'd have to switch to a channel that didn't have a signal to see the menus. Rebooted a couple times, didn't...
  24. B.J.

    2 S2 tuners in Elite/Premium....NOT!

    Well, I've been looking for a 2nd DVB-S2 tuner for my Elite, hoping to hook one up to C-band, and hook one up to Ku. In reading some relatively old posts at the Azbox forum, I just found out that this is NOT possible. See: Welcome to AZBox • Login Apparently someone tried to do...
  25. B.J.

    Azbox forum?

    Every day, I go to the Azbox forum to see what's new, and see if there are any responses to my bug/suggestion posts. Today I went there, and the forum is empty. It just says "This board has no forums." . Hopefully not an indication that they are going to cut their losses and give up. I...