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    learning 2nd language for fta

    searched the bay and found pimsleur cd at a price I can afford to lose if I can't/don't learn. After many yrs of southern living am afraid my ears don't hear as fast they speak on the shows, either spanish or english.
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    Pansat 3500SD questions

    Had to do this with mine. Main menu, user setup, aspect ratio 4:3
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    learning 2nd language for fta

    After modding my dtv pizza dish for 30w and rescanning the satmex sats, realized with a little help (cd/dvd) might learn a second language and be able to understand what might be some interesting shows or at least the baseball games and fights. Its been almost 50 years since jr high spanish...
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    Advice on OTA DXing

    I am in the middle (77-91 mi) of 3 markets. Main tv does not have add on scan, kitchen tv does have add on scan. I scanned for the strongest signal in eastern direction, and use a converter box stb-t8 for the other 2 markets. Can usually find a signal from one direction or another during tropo
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    Fusion Comm Mux gone away?

    hope its not gone, was enjoying sailing races
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    Blasted SNOW!!!!!

    Turbosat, did the cat catch and eat the rabbit? I didn't get the snow but did get 3/4" ice. Sprayed all four dishes with dollar store cooking spray yesterday, the only channel not coming in on the 1.8m is MEtv, thats not uncommon on this dish. I would go out and see about knocking some of the...
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    Me tv off the air?

    Soon as the snow stopped and I cleaned off the 1.8 I got signal back. Strangely ku never suffered as bad as C band dmx741 on 1.8m.
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    Me tv off the air?

    Turbosat, I lost it here also, am sure because of the snow. Local radio says was 1968 since this part of Alabama has seen snow on Christmas. Knew I moved too far north!
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    motor/dish signal confusion

    That splains it all, I don't work right if I hear the word snow!!!!
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    motor/dish signal confusion

    Don't know how you have dish mounted but A neighbor with a pizza dish provider lost signal on a dish mounted to eaves. The culprit was the weight of dish and mount caused soffit or whatever trim piece is called to sag/pull away from the house, a couple nails to tighten wood restored the signal...
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    Whats your favourite Christmas TV Show?

    Haven't seen it in years, but magoo's christmas carol
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    APTN.ca gone?

    That is correct
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    APTN.ca gone?

    Thanks photoman! Neither pan 3500 or openbox found this on scans till manually entered and is a 1 click adjustment between receiving either direction.
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    APTN.ca gone?

    Have enjoyed this feed till went missing this week. Anyone else able to find this or is this a 1.8m related issue? Thanks Bama1
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    Monster dish fans

    spent many years traveling working on dishes like that around the world. I like being able to stand on the ground to work on what I have now much better
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    TBS

    Have never seen Braves on anything except Fox spso /ESPNwhen I was paying DTV. Some of the home games are on PCH(peachtree tv) TV 17.1 OTA which is the local version of TBS. I can receive PCH occasionally when tropo is right, its 86 mi line of sight for me. Would like to see the OTA antenna...
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    upgrade to 6FT.dish..i am ready

    2 nd on the 6' dish. After mini bud for 5+ years I wonder why I didn't just replace the patriot that Ivan destroyed Since you're in la and will see a storm before I do, set it up so you can take it down when something like Ivan comes through. I notched the post mount with a hacksaw blade and...
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    Any fall FTA projects?

    Dee Ann, have had to learn to do things differently with plates, rods and screws in my body Spread out a shower curtain/ drop cloth and while the bag is laying flat cut a 6"x 10" U and scoop out into a bucket till you can tote the bag. I set my dish by placing it on a 10' 2x4 clamped with...
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    Any fall FTA projects?

    Only project I want done this fall is bury the rg6 in pvc. Everyone living in red clay areas knows what an adventure digging this line can be!
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    Real Westerns

    AcWxRADAR Any chance the radio station is being fed by any of the radio feeds that our receivers pickup on blind scans? I personally have never checked what they are, but I probably have 1-200 listed on the scans Bama1
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    Nat Geo Scrambled

    Blame it on me. Seems like the only time I want to watch something specific is when they decide to scramble. still get geo wild but cant get the volume with the sonic voom
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    You know you're a newbie when...

    when you cancel dtv/cable before finding out if your new hobby meets the tv demands of the other half, even after I bought her a new wash machine.
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    If you were buying your first KU band dish all over again...

    At one time I had 14 pstar dish 84 & 1m that I collected within 40 mi radius of taldaygr. Pstar must have been big around here back then. Friends would complain about rain out on D /Dish and I would give them a dish to use with their lnb. Everyone of them are still being used that way still, I...
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    What Are You Watching With A 6-Foot Dish?

    WSI 6' dish dmx242, parked @ 91w till I wait for it to rain so's I can bury the wire (lesson learned the hard way) P'star 1m/lnbf sg2100, pansat 3500 P'star 1m jcs321, fortec dynamic 30W Been lurking nigh onto 6 years, after Ivan took down a wild cherry tree that destroyed my patriot. Put the...