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    List your favorite FTA bird and channel's

    My new favourite is the Omni channel (okay, I guess it doesn't count 'cause its on C-band) on IA13 Lots of reallly hokey B-movies. The Russian sports channel on IA5 sometimes has some interesting programmes...(but I sure do miss Empire!) I also like the fact that I can see WWE's Smackdown...
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    C-Band questions

    WOW, dfergie, I havent seen one of those ancient things since I had my old BUD in the early 80's. Those old 70MHz single conversion converters sure had a tendency to drift all over the place, didnt they. I finally got fed up and bought a Drake ESR-??? (their first block conversion satellite...
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    Grounding - Important? Required?

    At the very least, a static electricity charge can travel down the ground shield of the coax and into your reciever, which is VERY sensitive to such things. Many reciever's electronics have been "fried" by static charges. :eek: It is obviously much better to pass all of those charges to...
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    Cant get AMC4 with BEC 2000

    brotherhood, What size of dish are you currently using?
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    Defective Fortec? and IR Conflicts

    >Does anyone know if the remote for the Pansat is independent of the one on the Fortec? The Fortec and the Pansat remotes are programmed differently...one won't work with the other.
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    Help needed! -- Antenna setup randomly changes

    Ahhh...the (in)famous Fortec Lifetime memory leak! :mad: 1. Make sure you have the latest boot ver (6.0) and the latest firmware (2.44). 2. I have found that by deleting unused transponders and satellite listings on the Fortec, this has all but cured the positioner memory problem. (I...