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    All strength no quality.

    After a long break I went out to try and align it again and finally! I can't thank you all enough for your help. I brought the wife out to help align and we were finally able to lock onto AMC-9. We haven't gotten the quality very high, but it was enough to get a few channels and some wild...
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    All strength no quality.

    I did mess with it, at the time of the last post, but still haven't been able to get anything going. Since that post I've been busy with work, and just haven't felt like banging my head against it since then. I'm sure that I'll post a big post once I do get something, it's just a matter now of...
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    All strength no quality.

    Not stupid at all, it's certainly within the realm of possibility. I have a in and a loop on the receiver, and for a while I sat here wondering if I shouldn't have it plugged into loop. That is until I looked it up. I just double checked it and it is screwed onto a port labelled "IF INPUT"...
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    All strength no quality.

    Well this thread moved. Isn't that a cute little thing. Apparently I can't leave this alone, I printed this and standing under the dish at 195 for AMC-9 I look through the tube and nothing but sky. For Galaxy 19 at 217 nothing but sky. So if I'm using this little jobber right then I've a...
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    All strength no quality.

    So let me give a play by play here so maybe someone will read this and it will spark something in their minds. I decided before I give up today to try and realign to AMC-9 as it's higher and I understand the concern for the tree line. Here's what I've done step by step. With the azbox off, I...
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    All strength no quality.

    Yeah It's north carolina we're known for these obnoxious pines. I was encouraged by the previous owner having a Directtv dish in the spot where I now have mine. I don't see them being a problem for AMC-9 but Galaxy 19, might be a bit of a stretch. I'm realigning to AMC-9 now.
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    All strength no quality.

    Equipment is new. Photos.... Dish is about 6" above my head.... South on the compass, tree line here is about 150' 217 deg would run right down the middle of these, where this tree line is about 70' away. Hence my worries about Galaxy 19....
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    All strength no quality.

    I've shortened my run to a 5'-6' RG-6 cable that I run right threw a window to the AZbox and tv. Move the dish monitor kind of situation. Probably the satellite I started with AMC-9 if I remember correctly. Even there I've had pretty much the same situation. The route I go is Antenna setup...
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    All strength no quality.

    No change. I tried with both with tone on and then off. There is also a 9750/10600 in the list and I tried that as well.
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    All strength no quality.

    Ah apologies, read that as TP frequency. Will do, report back in a few.
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    All strength no quality.

    Blind scan resulted in nothing. No found TP no channel listing. So I'm crystal clear on this. You want me to in the Antenna setup screen set frequency to 10750 and I'll leave tone on as it's always on. (EDIT: I'll have to add 10750 through sat/tp edit as well since it's not in the default...
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    All strength no quality.

    Oh how I so dearly wish this was the case at this point. Unfortunately there's just a list in the azbox and I don't enter them, so I must have fat fingered it putting it in here. : /
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    All strength no quality.

    Yeah this is what I was thinking as well. Unfortunately new developments are thus. I took the dish off to make sure the mast was still plumb. It is. I put the dish on and made sure the elevation was around 44.4 on the marks on the mount. Checked the skew to make sure it's correct. I've a...
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    All strength no quality.

    That's correct, the signal strength in the azbox is at 60% around there for all these satellites and 0% quality always. The obnoxious audio meter I can get going and seems like I would be latching onto something if not the one I'm after. My run goes from the dish to a ground block, into a...
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    All strength no quality.

    Minor change in strength but no change in quality still 0% when I move the lnbf around. Tried full front and middle. I did however notice the amber plastic pane was not entirely flat, it's a tad wavy not sure if that's an issue or not. So, I've repointed the dish here. Still nothing in...
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    All strength no quality.

    Here's a shot from the ground of the LNBF mounted in the arm.
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    All strength no quality.

    Sorry for the delay my body has decided it would like a nice flu. Although feeling better it's rainy here today and still don't feel strong enough to be on a ladder. But let me tell you all what I've tried since then. I went back out and took a good amount of time to make sure that all the...
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    All strength no quality.

    Yeah this was my first mistake. When mucking about with it initially I had finally noticed while staring at it that the signal must bounce from the top down. I just double checked this morning and it's set to the proper degree (or at least as close as I think it is) on the mount. I think that...
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    All strength no quality.

    Sorry for the delay in response... Yeap, that's what at least I think I'm setting the receiver up for. I did not. That is changed, but still no quality. I have a sat finder and it makes a hell of a lot of noise and I try to do as I've seen in a number of videos, tweak turn it down, tweak...
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    All strength no quality.

    empiretc: Thanks for the response. Interesting so should I be at all concerned that that signal strength is that low (60's) between my lnbf and the reciever? Can you give me an idea of what a booming transponder would be, I'm in North Carolina if that matters at all. If I can get one then I'm...
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    All strength no quality.

    While this sounds like me after a few drinks, it's unfortunately also the situation I'm currently in at my very beginnings of this hobby. I've got a AZBox Premium plus, a fixed Winegard 76CM, and a SNH031 invacom Ku LNBF. I first tried to line up AMC-21 no luck, then I tried AMC-9 just to try...
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    Getting started

    Nice, yeah I've been trying to find the Elite and no one seems to sell it, I'm supposing that's why. So I've been eyeballing the premium plus so I think I'll go with that instead. Those primestar dishes look very much like the one I have and I think on your blog it talks about replacing the...
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    Getting started

    Hey all I've been lurking for a while and reading a good number of threads about FTA. I just need some points of advice/sanity check before I go and purchase some hardware. So first obviously I need a receiver and I've posted here because it seems like AZbox is pretty popular and flexible...