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    Indiana, PA FTA pointing Help Needed

    Hello Everyone, Anyone in the Indiana, PA area that can point a FTA dish that's ground mounted? I have a friend that needs this done and I'm too far away to help him. He is willing to pay anyone to do it. He has a 76cm fixed pole mounted (about 4' off the ground) dish looking for G19 only. I...
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    Missing Center-KU problems?

    Hello I have my 8' Alcoa dish and I am having problems with KU band. There is a center cover missing on the dish, would that cause the loss in signal on KU? Been tweaking the dish and C band is great but KU is lacking. If I filled the hole would that make my signal any better?? Here is a pic...
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    HD FTA Help

    Hello all, I am looking to upgrade to a HD FTA (new or used). I have seen some on ebay and such. My question is... if I do buy one that was used by the eye patch people would that be legal for me to buy knowing or not knowing it's been modified? And if it is legal what would be the best model...
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    Alcoa Aluminum Dish is up

    Hello all, Well after a few months of planing and bad weather I got my Alcoa 8' dish up. Got a new 12' black pipe in the ground, The Actuator works great and it tracks the arc using a Gbox V3000 , BSC621-2 LNB and a Traxis 3500. (58w to 137w) It was about an hour to set it up and watching...
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    Cable and Skew question

    Hello All, I don't write much but I read the FTA forums here almost everyday and boy I have learned so much and I thank you all for that. Well as I stated a few months ago I got an Alcoa solid 8' dish and I am getting ready to install it. I have done many C band dishes for broadcast stations...
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    Strange Freq

    Hello all, I was blind scanning AMC1 and found 3.095 and 3.086 Ghz How is this possible? C band is 3.700–4.200 Ghz correct? Let me know if I'm missing something here cause I don't know how this is taking place. Thanks John
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    Alcoa Aluminum Dish?

    Hello, Has anyone heard of a c/ku-band dish made by Alcoa Inc. ? I have a chance to get one for nothing as long as I remove it. The dish panels are made from aluminum and it's around 8' to 10'. I was thinking someone may have some info on it. Alcoa Inc. is located locally here is SW PA so...
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    Galaxy 25 Dead?

    Hello Everyone, Well today (9/26/2008) looks like Galaxy25 is not working. Called our uplink center and was told that G25 was down. No ETA on a Fix or when G19 will be used in place of it. So I guess it was good that G19 is up there to take it's place. Just wanted to let everyone know. I...