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Great review. I read some earlier discussion about timers. Any thoughts on whether this is one of the better receivers for setting timers? I'm considering picking up a Fortec Dynamic, but being able to set a good number of timers with flexibility for the recurring days is important so maybe...

Thanks Iceberg, I've been away a long time so I'm slowly catching up on threads. Any dish that I add would be a max of 1M so I'll rule this out. I'm also not handy enough to do customized modifications. It would be nice to have G18 and AMC21 together but it's not a huge issue considering the...

Any thoughts on whether this might work for sats 2-degrees apart on a 1M dish? I'm thinking to put up a second non-motorized dish this summer and if I could get G18 and AMC21 on one dish that would be king!

Anything is possible, why not give it a try? I've heard of that combo on a 20" dish, but 18" might be pushing it.

They're typically referred to as a 'monoblock' and as was mentioned, they don't offer much in the realm of FTA. Considering your signature shows that you have a Dish500 pointing at 110/119 then must be using one already. 110/119 are the only satellites worth pointing at with a monoblock for...

Ha ha, that's funny. Where can I get me one of those? ;)

While we're keeping things positive, I thought I'd throw in a few comments. I was reading a book about Ansel Adams that I got for my birthday (15th birthday + 21 years of experience) and I learned that he started taking landscape pictures at around 14 years old. I doubt he went around...

It's like CSI meets FTA, I can't wait to find out who the murderer is... er, nevermind :p

I recall from the Dr. Dish review a while back that he stated channel changes were not to swift. I'd like to hear your opinion once you're up an running.

Wow, great response. Welcome to SatelliteGuys! It's a wonder that the DTH companies can take a multi-million dollar satellites, spend millions to launch them into orbit and then charge a similar price as other providers (cable company, etc) to make up their ROI. Any thoughts on why some...

And unfortunately too late to the trough because the other 'hogs' are already eating up all the food.

I'd like to rehash Mike's question a bit. Is a satellite high-powered by design (e.g. more expensive to build), or is because they burn more energy (solar only?) and therefore have a shorter lifespan? Obviously what I'm getting at here is, what's to stop non-subscriber satellites from being as...

I have a Series1 TiVo that I'm not using any more because I got a PVR with my cable subscription. I've keep planning to connect it to my FTA system and get it to record day and night. Then I'd purposely leave it on a channel that I wouldn't regularly watch to find out if there's something good...

Good luck bud :) I'm sure there's an excellent truck performance board out there just waiting for you. :up

Ha, sweet. I guess going from memory is not one of my strong points :) Probably an indication that it's not a channel I watch regularly either.

Here's another perspective. FTA is like a wrapped gift; a big part of the excitement is not actually what's inside the wrapping, but the anticipation of finding out what it is. When you scan in AMC-4 for the first time and see AGHAPY show up in your channel list, you can discover for...

Both Bell and Starchoice used to do this as a marketing pitch, but now both are banned by the CRTC from promoting it.

Just became a father 5 months ago, work full-time and also fairly heavily involved at church. Also in the middle of home renovations and I have another passion with photography. Happy to be an FTA'r though even if there's not always the time for it :)

I don't think anyone here needs to feel guilty about asking a simple question or two to validate that the person asking is not seeking hack advice. If the person if truly interested in FTA, then it will become apparent right away. I can see now that this person was likely sincere, but...

Which satellite are you pointing at? The only free HD channel in the Ku band is PBS HD on AMC-3 (87W).

That's too bad. I get a kick out of this board because we're all looking for that illusive IRD that does everything perfectly. The problem is that our FTA requirements are so multi-facited, from blindscan abilities to sensitivity threshholds to HD to 4:2:2 to PVR functionality, that the...

Hyper, Welcome to SatelliteGuys! That was quite the answer for coming out of nowhere. So I'm curious, what's your background in sat?

What has your experience been? If you've blindscanned a satellite several times in the past, what's the likelihood that a new transponder will be used for a feed. I find on my Pansat that most of the waiting time is to indentify the transponders, the channel finds go quicker. To queue up a...

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I didn't realize that DIY is sometimes a requirement for getting the installation perfected. Maybe I'll go and raid my wife's coin purse after work. :D

I was thinking to try something like that by sticking a big washer or a shim on one side of the supporting tripods to shift the pipe.