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    Does Anyone Have A Dish With Az El Movement And High Resolution Encoders?

    Back last year when i was having trouble getting my BUD aligned to the arc to get both C and Ku, before I finally gave up and replaced the C/Ku with C only I thought it would have been much easier if my dish could move in Az and El so I could find each satellite like I would locate a Ku sat with...
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    I have a HTPC - Thinking of buying a dedicated DVB-S2 DVR / Media Player - Which one?

    Hi. Several years ago I built a dedicated HTPC, expensive case, 4TB storage, 4GB RAM, Vista, TBS6925 DVB-S2 Professional Tuner, ect. It's basically a super expensive HDTV, DVB-S2 recorder / media player. I play back SD and HD video, .ts, .mkv, .avi (various codecs), .mov, .mp4, .flv (all...
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    Low or No Signal on Galaxy 19 11842MHZ And Others

    Does anyone know if there are problems with this sat? I noticed tonight that I am getting low or no signal on some transponders. I couldn't get 3ABN or any signal on 11842 earlier, now I'm getting something. I've never had a problem so far with clouds and rain interfering, we had some rain...
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    Requesting advice on the best PCI DVB S2 card to buy

    I bought a Technotrend 6400 S2 card many months ago because I wanted a hardware based card, those have always given me the best performance as far as picture quality and video editing go. I know they are not as versatile as a software card but hardware cards are perfect for what I need. Here...
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    TechnoTrend S2-6400 Experiences?

    I'm planning to buy a TechnoTrend S2-6400 mainly because it's the only hardware based S2 card I can find. I use to use a TechnoTrend 1.5 card it was a hardware DVB-S which always gave me an excellent picture an sound and my recordings were flawless, even editing my recordings were flawless...
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    Distance from scalar ring face to feed horn face?

    I am using a DMX741 LNBF with my Chaparral scalar ring on my 10' mesh dish. I'm trying to get the focal length set properly. I measured the diameter of the dish at 119" the dish depth at 24" which calculates to a focal length of 36.8776". Or a setting of 0.3098 on the LNBF scale. My dish...
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    Saginaw Reed Switch Question

    I have a 24" Saginaw actuator and am having problems with my new VBOX V3000. I'm getting error E2 on the box so I'm not getting sensor pulses. Sometimes it works sometimes not. I was told on the Sadoun forum that the reed sensor might be bad. I've been trying to find a replacement but no one...