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Thought you folks would get a kick out some pics i took this morning. When looking at them please remember that my c band dishs are on high poles, normally i can walk under them at the lowest elevation without hitting my head (i am 6' tall). Next to my 10' BUD you can see my 1.2 meter dish...

Howdy Folks, Where we live at the only source of highspeed is via satellite. In speaking with one of my neighbors he mentioned he was willing to pay the upfront cost to install wild blue if we could figure out a way to share the connection / operating costs. We are looking to see if there...

After looking for a long time I finally took the plunge and grabbed a 920. the board and battery are only 2 years old so I dont think I have any worries on that score for a while. Anyways, just a heads up, I am sure I will have lots of questions soon!

Ok, played around some more today with my 1.2 meter and my old .65 degree cal amp c band lnb, now deceased (rip). I was able to tune a few c band signals before it died, even though I was using it without any scalar ring. Here is what i have been able to pick up on c band so far: Anik F1-...

Howdy folks, Quick question here. I know my 10 foot bud "sees" 1 degree of the arc, how much does a 1.2 meter see?

I am now a proud member of the 1.2 meter c band club :D Today I had some free time so I decided to slap a c band LNB onto my 1.2 p* dish. My mounting technique was quite complicated, consisting of a single zip tie to hold the lnb in the same place the P* lnb was mounted :) After playing...

Hooked up my analog reciever to KU for the first time today. I had seen on lyngsat that Lifetime was on analog KU on 121, tp 32. Swung the Bud over and started changing channels on the analog reciever. Well, long story short, did not find Lifetime (which the wife wanted) but I did find something...

I have been playing with my 1.2 meter channel master and have reached the conclusion that the LNB leaves something to be desired, mainly the capability to recieve horizontal polarity. I receive no signal at all on the h side, and so far have only been able to hit real strong DBS signals on the v...

Hey guys, here is a freebee c band dish for someone who wants one in the northeast. This is the exact same dish and actuator that I have, this dish works awesome for both c and ku band. This dish is currently set up for c band only. It is free for the taking, you must tear it down / pick it up...

Howdy Folks, first time post in this section. My wife was just offered a job doing medical billing from our home. The pay is much better than what she is making as an office manager. There is one hitch: they want her to have dsl or cable internet, niether of which we can get in our rural...

About a year ago I saw a large primestar dish at a defunct rat shack about a half hour away. I asked the owner (who lives above the ex shop) what he was going to do with it and he told me if I wanted it to grab it. Well, after a year of procrastinating I finally grabbed a buddys truck (that...

Picked up some multi switchs and some diseqc switchs for setting up all my stationary dishs and multiple recievers. I meant to get 4x4 switchs but screwed up and got 3x4 switchs. Oh well, they will still work lol. Below is a pic of how it is set up. Everything works well, but I am having a...

The Mercury II is powered by an NEC 61114 processor, and has two meg of flash ram, with 16 meg of sdram. Quite a bit of power packed into a nice little case, and this unit uses it to produce lots of cool "why didnt they think of that before?" features. This unit has lots of goodies a true FTA...

Howdy folks, I recieved my new Fortec Star Mercury II receiver today (thanks Sadoun :) ) and thought I would let you all know my first impressions. In one word --NICE. I will be writing a full review as soon as i have time to really play with it. I pulled it out of the box and looked it...

I am moving my dishs around today, working on getting my setup finalized. I have both my p* and my 76cm pointed at g10, with disappointing results. Neither of these two dishs are giving me enuff signal for a good lock on tp 11720v. The p* with a 2700a hooked up to it, no switches in line, is...

Took a day off today and decided to spend some time playing with my 6' BUD. I leveled the pole, ran an extension cord out to the dish and hooked up a 2700 and sat finder to the lnb. I didnt bother to hook up the actuator, the old one was toast, and I havent put my spare thompson saginaw on...

After 15 days of rain, I have found out how well the Radio Shack "Waterproof" f connectors work. While they are f connectors, they are not waterproof. I have a pansat diseqc switch outside that 3 dishes feed. All of the cables connected to it use the radio shack connectors, while the unused...

During a break in the clouds i went out and with my daughters help tried to peak my 76cm with .5 db lnb on g10. The best sq i can get on 11720 is 35-39 (using her satworks). Just wondering what other people who are using a 76cm dish are getting for sq on that notoriously weak tp and what you are...

Do i really need to use dc blocks when feeding muliple recievers off of one dish? I have 3 recievers that are going to be hooked to a total of 6 dishs. I know i am going to be running into a problem where sometimes a LNB wont be powered with my current setup because the receiver looking at it...

Howdy folks, I am going to be mounting the pole for my 6' mesh c band dish tonight. I want to set this dish up for my daughters system, currently she is getting g10, pbs and audio from 119. I am going to set this up as a fixed dish so that I dont have to run ribbon cable, setup a dish...

I set up a satworks 3618 in my daughters bedroom (her bday present) this weekend and ran into an issue I had never heard of before. I have a dtv dual output LNBF on an 18" dish pointed at 119 for the audio channels, with a pansat in our front room and the reciever I am installing in my daughters...

Why is it that suppliers send their customers to this forum for technical advice? I dont mind site sponsers doing that, but I see places that arent sponsers doing it also, gosatellite for one. I know I would feel pretty ticked off if I bought something from a supplier and they directed me to...

I am trying to use gtools to backup and rearrange my channel lists. The problem i am having is that i am unable to download the list from my stb to my computer. I have selected com 1 and i am using the proper cable. When i tell gtools to connect to the stb it appears to, but then it wont let me...

Howdy folks, I am getting ready to try a dvb card. Here is what i have for a PC: Celeron at 1.7 ghz 256 meg ram MSI motherboard with shared video (sis 650 chipset) and ac '97 sound (realtek chipset) 40 meg hd (30 gig available) 19" viewsonic display I am looking at the twinhan 102g. I...

I just noticed that on my BUD i can pick up ONN on either polarity. Other TP's on that sat are normal ie: if i am on a channel and change polarity, then i lose the signal. Not so for ONN....... very strange.