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    What happened to my motor shaft?

    I haven't used this SG6000 in awhile and when I when to get it from the back yard the shaft was all the way to the left. I tried to zero it out but I was hitting the hardware limit sensors. Intrigued I opened the motor up and see that the gear is off by about 90 degrees. That is, the shaft is to...
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    Better KU LNB for Eliptical Dish

    Can anyone recommend a better LNB for my Primestar / Channelmaster 75E? I have the stock LNB and it works for most everything but I have trouble tuning in weaker signals. I dont know a lot about LNBs but I think I have seen people recommend the PLL LNBs but that might not work on my elliptical...
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    Best way to power an LNB?

    Hi, Earlier this year I posted about how my S9 stopped giving power on Horizontal TPs. Now I want to resurrect it and want to try providing power to my LNB and motor with a Diseqc or something. Will that work? Can I get a powered diseqc and have it supply the power to the lnb? Will it know when...
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    S9 LNB Power died / need solution

    Hi, I have an Openbox S9 I have had for just over a year. Suddenly the LNB power stopped working properly. It provides enough juice to illuminate the LED on my SG6000, but as soon as you hook up the LNB it stops giving enough current to power anything. I even tested the output with a Voltmeter...
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    What is this? Encryption?

    I see a few channels with this all the time. What is it? Some kind of encryption or scrambling? This is on 107w Thanks.
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    Syndicated Radio FTA?

    Does anyone know of any syndicated radio programs being broadcast in the clear over KU Band? Just curious what I can pick up. I found national radio stations Air1 and Klove on AMC1. It was pretty neat to tune to my local Air 1 and here the song being playing on my TV too.
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    Stuck motor

    Sorry if this has been covered before. I have an Sg6000 on my ChannelMaster 75E. I have had it for a few weeks now and all of a sudden it stopped moving. Its stuck on 87W. I select a satellite in my openbox S9 and it says "moving dish" for a few seconds but it doesnt move. The motor has a...
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    Blindscan Accuracy on Openbox S9

    Hello, I have been blind scanning on my openbox s9 for a few weeks now and can find lots of great programming. I had trouble finding a few channels listed on lyngsat when I did a blind scan so I decided to enter them manually. For starters, I entered the frequency and SR for KFTL on AMC 6 (AMC...
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    Motor on Channel Master Elliptical Dish

    Sorry if this has been covered before. I have searched and found a few entries but I wanted to see if there was anything "new." I have a Globecast Dish and LNB, aka Channel Master 36"x27" elliptical. I have been using it for 6 months for FTA, mostly feeds and such. When I need to move to...