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    how far can a pansat 900 motor drive east and west

    i installed a pansat900 motor to a 31 inch dish and was wondering how far can this motor be driven without going too far?
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    quality changing on certain channels

    i recently added a motorized 31 inch ku dish to my dish collection and am hitting from 72 deg to 129 and noticed something, on t6 dr gene scott tp at times i get 99 pct quality and at others as low as 58 pct. even going east and west doesnt help any. is it normal for some channels or...
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    setting up a pansat pm900 motor.

    hello guys, i just bought a pm900 fta motor and am setting it up on a 31 inch dish with a digiwav universal lnb. i do not have my level, but using quickcrete i tamped the pole into the ground a bit at a time for over 2 hours last night and it looks level to me. i set up the dish and did...
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    new motor out.

    my local fta supplier just got in a huge shipment of pansat motors and they are huge! way bigger than the old hh 90 motors,i was wondering if any of you think this would work with a primestar because of the oval shape? looks like it could take and move a 48 by looking at it. he is selling them...
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    bud down! actuator error

    will have to check it later, but got an error for actuator, i check and messed with the back of the box wires and still no fix. bad thing is i have 70 ft buried in the ground! most likely a cut cable because the actuator isnt that old. maybe the dog ate the wire!
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    just bought a birddog 3.0

    hey guys, i just bought a birddog 3.0 that has been used for only 3 weeks for only 235.00. the guy quit direct tv and needed quick cash
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    birddog satellite meter 3.0

    i have expressed interest in my local craigslist about looking for a birddog sat meter and last night a direct tv guy called and said he has been there a month and they gave him a brand new birddog and took 500 out of his checks to pay for it! anyways it must be the new 3.0 to cost that much...
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    digiwave or spacestar fta receivers

    hello guys. my local fta supplier just got a shipment of digiwave fta receivers and sells them to me for 99.99. have any of you used one? why do you think they are so cheap? i give him 140.00 for every pansat 2700 that i buy...
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    feedhorn for c/ku band

    goodmorning guys! i have had a california amp feedhorn for months now and am curious about connecting it and getting my ku off the big dish. i am a bit new to connecting the servo wires to the polarator. the guy who had the dish last looked like he just took the wires and...
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    just got another bud!

    hi guys! ran into a guy on craigslist that had a 6 ft prime focus commercial dish and said his wife wouldnt let him keep it! he wants to get into fta and traded the 6 ft focus to me for a 36 inch dish. this thing is like 3 inches thick and has a huge mount that must weight 200 pounds with...
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    analog feeds still going strong.

    i still flip through the analog sats everyday and catch tons of feeds, i am curious if any or many of you still watch analog feeds? i have noted every channel i have seen feeds on and have noted 105 ch or tps analog that still have occasional feeds, so still a bunch up there analog to view.
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    bought a new meter

    hey guys! i bought a digisat 3 lcd yesterday for 40 bucks. i was wondering if any of you have ever used this one before. it is battery operated which is great because i was just using a squacker that has to use juice from the receiver. i am guessing i can use this for c...
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    just moved the primestar dish!

    hello guys! happy 4th aniversary sat guys! i moved my pstar dish today. i had origanally had it in a spot where i had tree blockage from 93 deg on to the east! i have done nearly all my fta on c band til now. i put my dish 60 ft farther out in the...
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    what is this?

    i had a guy offer me a fiberglass 8 or 9 ft dish and a receiver called a wilson microwave receiver sm 1000 or something and a antanna position box, a remote even and told me just come pick it up? anyone ever heard of this receiver?
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    experiments on dishes.

    a couple weeks back i was aiming an old rca dish 18 inch dish hooked to a direct tv. i hit a signal with my analog meter and knew it wasnt 110 or 119, so i plugged up a fta rec and was hitting amc 1 ku. i always heard you cant gt other sats with this small a dish, i hht 2 channels, they were...
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    picking up my 4dtv today!

    i was talking to a guy at a video store yesterday about satellites and a guy overheard us and afterwards we talked a bit of c band. he said he no longer has a bud but a receiver that he paid 900 dollars for a receiver 6 yrs ago, so i asked if it was a 4dtv and he said yes and it still works. he...
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    moving up in the sat meter world!

    i did a small job for a guy today and he gave me some cash. well he owed me ten bucks he didnt have so he traded me a wineguard 1000 sat finder meter. i did have a sat finder original, now i have one that beeps and has a tone! it helped me find t6 ku which i can never find becbuse of trees, i...
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    disecq problems

    i have a little dish up on the roof and out in the yard dishes 1 and 2, and a bud and a primestar. well the bud is already ran into my bedroom, and i have one other cable so i want to use the other three dishes to the disecq switch and just use the one cable into the room. problem is sat 1 and 2...
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    direct tv sats.

    i am a fta fan and use a basic sat finder meter. i know, im cheap. but i am doing okay with it, i am toying with the ku dish trying to catch some great wild feeds. i am curious about something, i get alot of the dish net sats, which are of course scrambled...
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    birddog sat meter

    i guy where i work is selling a birddog meter for 100 bucks, it needs a battery. a battery is around 50 isnt it? finding sats would be alot easier with this. i have been using a sat finder! the only reasing they are good for dishnet is because all you can get are the echo sats with the...
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    advance scanning with dvb receiver.

    i started fooling around with the advance scan last night and finally realized what the numbers meant on the lyngsat charts under the tps. i was wondering why i wasnt getting all the channels under the tps! anyway i have to manually program these in, my blindscan dont pick up most of these. the...
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    picked up 4 ft dish today!

    today was my third day working contracts with dish and my last customer just moved in and had a 4 ft dish out in their yard. i asked if they were going to throw it out and they said if i want it take it. they were happy! so i grabbed it. i have a big spot at the side of my yard covered with...
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    what a shame

    yesterday i was at a house and saw a 12 ft clipse, i took a peek and saw the cables cut at the dish and the lnb taken off. the man told me that the guy who installed his dish net told him there were no more c band channels, that you cant even order them anymore. he cut the wires so he wouldnt...
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    do any of you work for dish or direct?

    i was wondering if any of you work with dish network or have before? i have a job offered to me if i want it. might take a paycut at first, but i love satellites and want to do something i love. i hate my present job, money is ok, the other stuff i have grown to hate. any pros and...
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    getting the atlantic sats

    i was wondering if any of you ever pick up any of the atlantic sats? i was able to pick up a few channels from amazonas at 61 deg and intelsat 9 at 58 deg, anything good out that way? i might adjust my dish a bit to get some of the sats or experiment with it.
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