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As I mentioned in another thread, I managed to destroy one of the sort-of-U bolts (they're more like V-bolts) on my STAB HH120 motor. I thought I had somehow gotten a nut cross-threaded, but it turns out the bolt itself had been bent slightly. I didn't notice anything except that the nut...

I have a STAB HH120 motor connected to a Fortec Lifetime Classic NA receiver. For a while I had my dish slightly misaligned, so I would let the motor position itself to where it thought the satellite should be, using USALS. Then I'd switch the receiver to DiSEqC 1.2 mode and "bump" the dish...

So, being the sort of obsessive satellite hobbyist one finds on these forums, I couldn't leave well enough alone. As I posted in another thread, I had a relatively functional motorized Primestar dish setup on Saturday, insisted on "tweaking it a little" on Sunday, and completely hosed everything...

Friday I received my STAB HH120 motor, onto which I mounted my old Primestar dish using the 3" adaptor rings designed to adapt Channel Master dish mounts to the STAB motor. My understanding is that the 40x30 Primestar dishes are rebranded Channel Masters anyway, so I figured why not give it a...

Hi, all! I've been out of the FTA scene for a while (I was last active here in early 2006) and since then, obviously, a few things have changed. One seems to be that a lot of people have the Fortec Star Mercury II receiver. I glanced at the specs, but I can't see how it's really all that...

Hi, all. My girlfriend's Canadian and a StarChoice subscriber, so I'm asking this question on her behalf. She wanted something comparable to my DirecTivo, so she got the DVR-530 HD DVR from StarChoice (she has no HDTV, but wanted the dual tuner, PVR, etc.) She's had nothing but trouble with it...

I bought a General Instrument DSR-1500S receiver on eBay for $40 or so. It was supposed to come with a user manual, but the seller forgot to include it. I asked them to send it, and they said they would, but never did. Such is life on eBay, I guess. Anyway, I have this very professional-looking...

Well, today I learned the hard way why we don't torque the bejesus out of our F connectors with wrenches and the like. I had used a wrench to gently tighten a cable onto my LNB. Well, today I wanted to remove that connection and couldn't do it with my fingers, so I got my trusty Leatherman tool...

I was very excited about the potential of UonTV when I first heard of it, but alas, as many of us here know, it's basically turned into a 24-hour-a-day infomercial channel. It still occasionally airs something interesting, but judging from a few posts I've read here from several months ago, it...

I've seen the term 4DTV thrown around a lot, but I don't think I've ever seen it explained in one place before. What I've gathered is that it's a C-band subscription service offered by Motorola requiring special 4DTV receivers and that it's encrypted with Digicipher II. I've also heard that you...

On SatcoDX's listings for AMC4, there are two channels listed which appear to be free porn - Free-X TV and X-Dream TV. I'm sure many of you have noticed this and gone looking for them before, only to find that they're not there. X-Dream and Free-X do seem to be on some European sat, although...

I saw a reference in another post somewhere to the fact that the 22 KHz tone used for universal LNB's (among other things) can render cheap satellite finder/meters useless. I have a very cheap meter from eBay and it seems to work just fine with or without the 22 KHz tone. The only weird thing...

Hi, all! I'm brand new to the FTA scene, but I've had some success this past weekend. I got my first-ever FTA dish/receiver set up and working and, as I suspected, I'm totally hooked. So now my next step will be to motorize my 30" x 40" ex-Primestar dish. I found the thread where people...