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    refurbishing old dish

    got it.....was planning on cutting the old struts at the bottom so i can keep the top slotted holes for the scalar.
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    refurbishing old dish

    Thank you T4Runner and i am not paying any attention to the naysayers......haha......have two 8ft set up now..... 1 in the front of the house and 1 in the backyard.....this one will be for testing what i can bring in with a meduim size dish......would not consider this a mini dish as most people...
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    refurbishing old dish

    dish paint------so i could use flat spray paint aresol can.
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    refurbishing old dish

    refurbishing 4.5 sat dish okay here are the pictures of the dish and mount. the blacked out portions and the red out i did so no one accuses me of promoting the sat dealer. Also what type of paint can i use on this fiberglass dish. can it be sanded and what grit number should i use.
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    refurbishing old dish

    hello all Need some expert help.....was able to locate a 4'9" fiberglass satellite dish. the depth on the dish when a flat 2 x4 placed across it measures at 8 5/8 inches. The problem the dish had its arms(to hold the scaler ring) removed and could not be located. I have some from a old 8ft...
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    dish install nightmare

    thanks guys for your reply back,have not messed with the dish yet........was wondering about norsat 8525 lnbs seen some on for about 65.00. I understand the 8115 or 8215 are recommend but for about 100. ea. a little steep right now. Would that be a better choice of lnbs.
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    dish install nightmare

    hello all Although its been a sometime since i posted about my dish problems,lnb problems......i have been getting by with the signals i could receive. well the other night i decided to mess with the orthomode dual c band lnb and dish elevation and i was able to finally pick up the nbc feeds...
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    Mini-cband dish problems

    hello all i am attempting to use a 90cm dish with a conical cband lnbf. looked at the sat calculator for(most southern) g16 99w and my sat angle is 55 i can't seem to lock on any dvb channels. Changed the lnb to ku lnb and moved it east i bit and received all the foriegn channels on 97w. I...
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    Welcome to SatelliteGuys Map Master Maps Forum!

    To: Stargaze THANK YOU!!!!! For all your patience and assistance....you rock,your the man with 4dtv receiver......on a scale of 1-10.......i give you 10.....again thank you for your time and effort.
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    Welcome to SatelliteGuys Map Master Maps Forum!

    all instructions were followed to the letter. mapmaster was working but all of a sudden stop working will be uninstalling everything. and starting over
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    Welcome to SatelliteGuys Map Master Maps Forum!

    well guess now i have to wait as my mapmaster program is now crashing in windows 7. I installed usbjtag on a windows xp laptop but couldnt install mapmasters.......back to the drawing board. Mapmasters program is now crashing when i select load master maps.
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    Welcome to SatelliteGuys Map Master Maps Forum!

    "1) you should have already downloaded the nvram from the receiver and saved a copy... right???? 2) go find that copy and make a new copy of it in a folder. 3) from the web site where the files are located download #9 "New Motorola Maps" to that folder you just created. 3) open the map master...
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    Welcome to SatelliteGuys Map Master Maps Forum!

    hello all O.k. first thing on my mind is thank you mapmaster programmers for all the hard work. Now i have done all the battery mods to my dsr920,dsr922 receivers, less the 2 that I send to glentech 1 donated and 1 for update but now has some tuner problem(hmm was working ok with hits) but...
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    Free Map Master

    hello all just activated my usbjtag and backup the nvram how do i get the mapmaster program?
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    dish install nightmare

    should there be a specific multiswitch i should be looking for and also where would one find a power inserter. i am trying to feed 2 dsr922 and 1 azbox.
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    dish install nightmare

    Hello fellow sat guys I removed the (used) newly installed by me 7.5 dish and installed another 8.5 mesh dish with a dual feed feedhorn(1lnb-vertical,1lnb-horizonal) two cables going into my 920. the southern most sat for my location is g4 horizonal lnb is horizonal at bottom and vertical lnb...
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    dish install nightmare

    The quad lnbf allows me to connect each receiver separately. So do I have to set them 90 degrees.
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    dish install nightmare

    o.k. am pointed at southern most sat G4. The 4dtv receivers in use are 922 and a 920 both setup with lnbf and normal(not 90 degree rotation). the lnbf on the dish right now is the panorama quad.
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    dish install nightmare

    a small observation i made deleted all the channels on the satlink and rescanned g4 lyngsat shows 3845h 15030 on the satlink meter when it finished doing a auto scan(blind scan) as i deleted all tps from g4. I noticed the same tp was 3847V(not H) 15020. is the lnbf wrong that the meter...
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    dish install nightmare

    o.k. tried these lnbf on the scaler wsi esx 244 lnbf, panorama Quad lnbf,dmx 242 lnbf all function with the 4dtv receiver.when using the second cable wire to feed the azbox i get no signal from any of the lnbf i have tried. all setting on the azbox are lnb freq-5150 diseqc-off 22khz tone-off...
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    dish install nightmare

    hello all i picked up a 7.5 laser mesh dish. i installed the pole 3ft in the ground(yes i did use concrete) plumb the pole. installed the dish as the dish was from my area i did not mess with elevation/declination. my problem is i have 2 cable wires and 1 for the motor no wires for the servo...
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    AzBox premium hd-Noobie

    Well guys sorry i havent posted work got me going crazy.......tried the rotating of lnb, kind of tricky as this dish is on the roof and can barely reach the lnb. so i rewired the motor to this dish and so far thats were i am at. ok sorry got off track so i rotated the lnb but no signal on the...
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    AzBox premium hd-Noobie

    hello all First let me thank everyone trying to help me get this azbox up and running (side note) the original owner of the box noticed my post here at satguys funny. Well at least i know he also trying to get me running. i just checked the setting on my dsr922 and yup the lnb was on standard...
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    AzBox premium hd-Noobie

    Ok have tried MIGOLD and WAYLEW suggestions but have nat had any luck guess I will have to wait till I install the 8ft dish with standard lnb. Bummer really wanted to see those NBC feeds :(
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    AzBox premium hd-Noobie

    Ok tried thr bottom instructions and found 105 cband with NBC channels scanned in already. But I am not getting signal. Thinking I have something set wrong. Ok I have a dual output lnbf hooked up to 2 different rooms. One cable run is going directly into the azbox premium hd the other cable...