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For three years, I’ve had this setup: Coolsat 5000 motorized Ku dish Invacom linear and circular Ku LNB 10 foot BUD C-band dish 13v/18v polarity switching C-band LNB dish positioner for the BUD Last week, I decided I wanted to upgrade to a HD FTA receiver, thinking that I could get some...

This is for the few of us who have a BUD connected to an analog reciever AND a FTA receiver. We have a problem with moving the BUD. We could get a VBOXII to enable the FTA receiver to move the BUD, but that would cause our analog receiver's position counter to get out of sync. Another...

Many times, when I blindscan a satellite, it will pick up transponders on an adjacent satellite. Even though that satellite is two degrees away, the signal is still strong enough to produce a good picture. Of course I can simply go to Lyngsat and see which satellite each channel is really...

I've looked around on this site to try to find out the meaning each of the little "book symbols" to the left of each post. Surely it's explained somewhere, but I can't find where. I did a search and I looked in the glossary.....and failed to find the answer. Maybe I just overlooked an...

I've been reading about FTA here, and I've ordered a Coolsat 5000 receiver, a QPH-031 LNB and a SG2100 motor (on which I will mount my old Primestar dish). I have a BUD and an analog receiver (an Echostar 710), which I want to keep operational. I want my Coolsat 5000 to be hooked up to...

I'm new to satelliteguys and this forum. What a great place this is! Many thanks to larrystotler. I followed his advice, and now I'm getting my locals on 105 by using a Primestar dish and the original Primestar lnbf. I was lucky that my locals are on transponder 11 (a vertically polarized...