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Speaking of keeping things shhhh, what do we have to do to get into the secret feed lair? Is it only for paid memberships?

I want to win the new SG9120 Heavy Duty DiSEqC Motor & The WS9036 36 Inch Dish

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I'm in PA and I just started using my FTA dish after about a year of not using it. I scanned in about 50% of the satellites I can pick up with a 90cm dish and I think the count was around 400. What you have to understand about FTA is that most of the channels are feeds, religious, or non-english...

These are just the initial comments from a nobody on these forums, so take it for what it's worth (near nothing). My degree is in electronics engineering, but it's the digital side. I haven't a clue on the analog/RF side of things. Also, I'm a software developer. I could do a custom receiver...

I was aware that sometimes only part of a transponder are used, but I thought maybe the symbol rate of the transponder was fixed and by renting part of a transponder they rented part of the mux on that transponder. Another way of describing what I thought is that the transponder is configured...

My questions: 1. Is there a satelliteguys channel master project or something that has all of the transponders for all of the US viewable satellites? 2. Is such a project useful to anyone? 3. Is there a better way to scan (than blind scan) without having to create a tp list from lyngsat on my...

I had a professional install my 85cm dish (on a DMSi SG2100) at my new residence last year. He claimed at the location the dish was installed that I should have line of sight from AMC 6 (72.0W) to AMC 7 (137W). He used a compass type device that you look through and it shows elevation as well...

As long as it's possible to force updating of the channel/sat/tp lists from the ethernet->serial converter (without modifying the receiver's firmware) then I suspect this would be very possible and actually not very difficult. I'm aware you can reprogram your FTA box using channel master via...

The only LNB that I'm aware of that does both linear and circular is the Invacom Qph-031. It's a little larger than other LNBs, but it should do what you need. As far as HD from a linear sat, the real magic is in the receiver. The receiver needs to be able to play back high def as well as...

I haven't really watched tv/messed with my dish for a couple months, but I noticed this same problem 2 nights ago. I could get Macy's, but CBS newspath was much lower... in fact it was around a Q of 3-5, which basically made it impossible to watch. I don't recall what it used to be, but it was...

Only sat I'm having probs with video on I believe is G11, I'll have to double check. On my receiver a Q of about 15 and up seems to mean stable video, but below that, like on G11 it breaks up. Of course there's still lots (between 72 and 123) I've not been able to tune in yet.

So far I've managed to find quite a few sats. I guess I was just searching through them too fast (and using incorrect transponders). Are these qualities about right or is my dish not aligned well? Deg - Sat - Q 72 - AMC6 - 46 74 - G17 - 46 79 - AMC5 - 47 82 - NIMIQ2 - 99 83 - AMC9? - 63 85...

AMC4 has a few channels where I get the audio, but no video doesn't break up at all. It also has a few religious channels where both video and audio work. Although when I'm in the sat setup the Q is 0, once I go to channels the Q is around 40 - 60. I've also managed to pick up AMC1. It shows...

I'm thinking maybe my procedure is wrong. I tried just randomly driving the motor east/west again and I don't pick up AMC 4, but if I tell the receiver to go to AMC 4, it finds it, so perhaps my continuous scanning of the sky is just going past these sats too quickly, but even when I see small...

I've swapped the linear and circular LNB ports on the switch between 1/4. The circular works on 82, 91, 110, and 119 on both ports (1 and 4), but the linear didn't work on either. I then proceeded to try the other linear output from the LNB (it has 2 linear and 2 circular outputs). On the other...

As I'm scanning (manually driving the motor east/west) I see the signal going up and down, it always seems to be in the 40 - 70 range, but the Q is always 0 when I have the DiSeqC set to the linear port. Tomorrow I'm going to swap the circular and linear ports and see what happens. Should help...

I shall try different ports. I only used port 1 and 4 because someone earlier in the thread recommended that. I'm just worried those installers fried my LNB... Although I don't know enough about the design of that LNB to determine if it is even possible to fry just the linear (and not the circular).

Did a little bit of driving the motor and found another sattelite, this one I recognized (I have dish network service), it was EchoStar 110. So I looked up what NIMIQ 1,3 was and it is also a circular polarity sat, so I'm thinking maybe my linear isn't working, which is really what I wanted this...

I've rewired my system and it is driving the motor, but things don't seem to be operating correctly. When I select a sattelite from my receivers menu, say AMC6, then I go into the motor settings and keep driving east/west until I find a sattelite, it shows NIMIQ1,3 in the upper right of the...

I think I should also mention that for testing purposes, I removed the switch and connected the motor directly to the receiver. I had the receiver moving the dish and all of a sudden the signal went to 0 no matter where I told the receiver to point the dish. I went outside and found that the...

Thanks for the quick replies guys. I shall try rewiring it tomorrow. Well they did install a pole, cement it in, align the dish and setup the motor angles. They also ran wire into my house and gave me plenty of extra wire to connect another receiver in the future. $218 was the total. A bit...

Being that I'm new to motorized Ku-band dishes, I decided to have a preofessional installer install the dish and set everything up, unfortunately they seem to not be so good and I'm left with some problems. Equipment: DMS International SG-2100 motor 85cm dish Invacom Quad output (2 linear +...