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I've used Yellow Dog on an old underpowered Mac power pc and Knoppix live CD. No complaints either way. I think about Linux the same way I think about FTA. As long as it's not Micro$oft (or Directv/DN) I'm good. ;)

Ok, thank you very much for the explanation. I appreciate it! :)

Thanks Radar. That makes sense. I took it off today. BTW, on the Coolsat menus, what does Legacy SW mean? And I assume under the Dish menu I leave DiSEqC on OFF. Sound right?

Sorry I wasn't very clear. I got a reasonably good signal on my true south satellite and I know I'm on it. What I wanted to be sure of before moving ahead is: are my receiver settings right (I'm not sure what to put all the Coolsat menus on)? And should I be using both outputs on the LNB instead...

More newbie questions. I ran into some trouble getting my motorized setup locking on across the arc, so I wanted to review everything in a logical way to make sure I've got it all set up correctly. I've got a Coolsat 5000 hooked up to a Sadoun Powertech DG280B motor on a perfectly plumb mast...

I started adjusting the aim of my dish yesterday and here's what happened: when I scanned 125W, my receiver locked onto some channels from 123W as well as 125W. Do you guys suggest I tweak it a bit further over so it doesn't think the 123W channels belong to 125W? Or because it's only two...

Radar, I started plotting this afternoon and I'm resisting the urge to make any adjustments just yet. I took a print of your guide up on the roof with me and wrote the plot on the back of one of the pages. :) Once I get all the way across the sky, I'll cross reference the results with what you...

What I meant was a dish bigger than 18" that could catch more than 119W. I've learned by reading this forum that there's more to life than Ion, Angel One and NASA. ;)

Ok, today I took down the old Dish Network dish I was using to get 119W and started the setup of my new motorized 90cm dish equipment. Due to lack of yard space, it's going on the roof. I got the mast perfectly vertical (the bubble of the inserted level couldn't have been more centered.) I...

I remember a few of those pretty well. I was a fan of Emergency (I even had the action figures!), The Man from U.N.C.L.E, Voyage and Time Tunnel. I don't remember NYPD or Honey West though.

If by "Golden Age" they include Rat Patrol, It Takes a Thief, and Rawhide I'm all over it.

This whole thing has got me excited. I'm just getting into FTA and next weekend I'll have my dish set up. I've heard everyone's comments about the likelihood of these channels actually happening, but I'm kind of an optimist. Plus I think it's cool when something "Family Oriented" goes up against...

You gurus have been great helping me with FTA! Now I've ordered a dish and a motor from Sadoun and I'm pretty excited. One question about LNBFs. I'm still a little confused about Universal vs. Standard. By getting the Universal will I be prohibited from receiving any of the North American Ku...

I'm not sure I follow. DishPro is bandstacked and is that and older type or a newer type? I have two DishNetwork dishes that were left on the roof of a house I bought - one with the LNBF's removed and one with them intact. That's the one I'm using for FTA (until I get a bigger one with a...

Excellent. It worked. Thanks for the help and the formula!

I was able to lock onto 13362 V 20000.

I'm not able to lock onto either 12238 H 20000 or 12268 H 20000.

Iceberg, thanks for that info. I know the repurposed dish / lnbf was old technology sitting on the roof for several years. BTW, you mentioned hockey in an earlier post. I'm a big hockey night in canada fan. Pretty good Winter Classic game today.

I haven't been able to lock onto Ion. I can get Angel One and NASA but not Ion. Tomorrow I think I'll try to fine tune the aim and see if I can get it. Earlier someone suggested that I may need a bigger dish to get Ion.

I updated the firmware to .06 and that took care of the problem. On a side note, it's been fun getting a taste of FTA by aiming at 119w but boy, am I ever ready to get a bigger (motorized) dish and see something besides NASA and fifty channels telling me how to set up Dish Network!

I checked the system and it said "s/w .003". I'll upgrade to the latest version and see what that does. Thanks guys.

I'm still only aiming at 119W until I get another dish and I'm playing around with the settings on the coolsat 5000. When I blind scan that satellite the default settings for TP says: 12200 - 12200. When I checked the LyngSat specs for 119W, it says the TP goes from 12224 to 12516. So should I...

:up As I mentioned, I'm a Mac person. But I've got an old iMac running a Linux OS and love it!

Ok, so I dug out my wife's old Toshiba laptop, running Windows 98. It has an actual serial connection. I got rid of the USB adapter. It worked like a charm. Coolsat 5k has it's firmware update. :)

Has anyone been able to run Loader v. 2.4 successfully on Windows Vista? I'm using a laptop with the serial cable adapted to USB and the loader keeps saying "connect your receiver and turn it on" (which I've done several times - doing the connection steps in a variety of orders). I'm using com 3...