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    SES-2 problems

    It is one of the cheap Chinese-made combos. I'm trying one band at a time. The same lnb has worked fine on a different dish at a different location.
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    SES-2 problems

    I can get the ku band, but the c band will not come in.
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    SES-2 problems

    I'm reasonably versed at dish pointing, but I seem to be stumped on this one. Dish is a 10' mesh with a dual KU/Cband lnb. I am using a meter as well as a Birdog. I am able to easily lock onto Galaxy 16 and Galaxy 17 with the cband. Using the ku lnb, I can get a fairly good signal on SES-2. I am...
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    Why the super-sized Dish and Direct dishes?

    Just got back from a few day trip to Puerto Rico. One of the first things I noticed was all the 3'-5' dishes on every house. Some were Dish, some Direct TV, and some were Ku band. Why the large dishes? I can only conclude that the location is in the fringe of the foot print of the used...
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    PowerVu question

    I often see that a channel is encripted with "PowerVu". Who is the provider that sells service to these channels? :coffee Toonses
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    SES 2 channels, can't get some of them

    Around a year ago when I bought my first openbox s10, I was able to get several RTN,Tuff tv, Me tv, etc.(on SES 2 87.0w) Now, I only get Persuit, Untamed Sports, and Weather nation (maybe a couple of more). I'm using a 12' Paraeclipse dish. According to my Birdog, I get 90% + on horzontal, 60%...
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    Can't scan all the channels on 87w

    A few months ago, I was able to scan the rtv, tuff, and others on 87w with no problem. Lately, I can's get them to scan. I have a 12' Paraeclipse dish (well tuned), and a s10 openbox. I've tried "tweaking" the tp's up and down from 3920 and still don't have any luck. What am I doing wrong...
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    SAMI Satellite dishs , gone out of Business,dammmmm

    SAMI manufacturing I happened to be in Judsonia, Arkansas last year. I passed a building that had several new dishes in front of it. I stopped and visited, it was the SAMI manufracturing company. They were finishing up on an order to south america. It was the last order they were going to...