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    Chadwick Mo, you want it come get it

    Did a job today in Chadwick, Mo. Had a beautiful looking C-band sitting in their yard and looked in really great shape. I inquired about it and they told me, "Oh, that thing... haven't used it in years." I told them that a lot of people still use them as a hobby and perhaps someone would love...
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    horizontal but no vertical?

    Helped a guy out today with his Glorystar system. Could not get G25.. but pretty sure it's a bad lnb. I took the other one for AMC4 and switched them and it showed G25, although pretty weak. Anyway, I switched them back and tweaked AMC4 as high as I could. On his Fortec Mercury Star he was...
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    Big Thanks to All

    Ok, so I'm sitting here since about 3:30pm yesterday watching tv.... for free!! I owe a lot of you some thank you's. Iceburg, Anole, Turbosat, Cadsulfide, osu1991, and anyone else I forgot. I should actually thank everyone here because I have done so much reading in the past couple weeks...
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    coathanger antenna

    Ok, so they are all over the internet... a nifty antenna you can build yourself out of some screws, washers, a piece of wood and some coathangers. So I decided what the heck and built one last Saturday and low and behold the thing actually works pretty good. I'm at least 40 or more miles from...
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    Scored a Primestar dish

    Ok....... so I'm halfway (or close to halfway) there to my FTA hobby that has consumed me the more I look into it. So I was driving past a house today and noticed an old primestar dish out in the yard. Of course I had to stop and see if they wanted to get rid of it. It was a real nice older...
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    Newbie questions

    Ok, so first of all I will begin by saying thank you to all for your help and please pardon me if any of these questions seem dumb. So I've been thinking about ditching my current subscription sat service and going fta. Not because I'm mad at them or anything, just tired of paying $90 a month...