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I was thinking I had been getting 129W, but I never attempted to adjust the elevation to confirm that. For grins, I ran outside a few times (sans the SF-95) and gave it a "tap" and it would only find two, 12485 - V & H - 20000. Thought that was odd. But it was to the west of my G18 markings...

We had some pretty strong winds this week, in fact my snow fence has a section that's on the ground because three post bent from the wind. I did blame the kids for moving the dish (although the wife didn't like that too much) and I last used the receiver on Sunday, but will verify the LNB...

I would agree with you, don't think it's too far off from G18, but those TPs seem outside the range I would have expected for Ku satellites around G18. If I get a few minutes tonight, I am going to run outside and give it a tape to the east and see how far off I am from my chicken scratching on...

Sorry, that might help, huh? :) It was on G18 (123). I'm stuck in my home office working on something for work, otherwise I'd run outside and move it back to G18. If I had to guess, I think it moved slightly to the west...but couldn't find those TPs on any Ku satellite to the west of 123.

So the strong winds we had moved my dish this week. When this happens I blind scan to see where it has been "adjusted" to so I can go out and move it slightly to the east or west depending on the TPs found. Today, my scan came up with a couple odd ones, and I was curious what satellite these...

In my experience with this dish, skew won't be your issue but your pole being off will. I move my DirecWay quite often from satellite to satellite. I've had on G18 where I've had 78% on TP 12103 (12105 on my receiver) but not even get TP 11730 and 33% to 40% on the Equity TPs 11798 & 11718...

Plum is key with a ground mount (post). Mine's moved more this year than I thought, so I need to redo it this spring (as it's made finding satellites this winter difficult). I use a SF-95 satellite finder after having the TP I want up on my receiver, then just peak into the window when...

For all you FTA'ers who love a good conspiracy, Out There TV has returned. But now it's called Matrix News Network (hmm...maybe the Gov't shut them down and they are back under a new name in hiding). :rolleyes: Not sure if it was on last Sunday (Superbowl) or not, but based on TitanTV it's...

My issues with self-made mounts for my motor hasn't been that didn't hold, etc. What I've run into is, I've made three mounts so far and when I put the motor on my pole, attach the dish, I never can find a satellite. Since I am after my due-South, I work to find that...here in-lies my problem...

Keep the forum updated on your results. I have a DirecWay dish (weighs 27 pounds) that I have been trying to create a mount for since Spring. Every time I mount it for due-South, I don't get G26 and in the process of "adjustment" I end up bending my self-made mount (due to the dish's...

I say ShopNBC as a cost-cutting measure. :)

I just moved my dish to AMC4 yesterday to watch the Saints & Skins game...I could not find KUIL, so I found the satellite by TRWAM (12119 V 30000) instead. However, KUIL came in just fine once I was locked onto AMC4. It's there and was coming in very well for me yesterday.

"I want to win!" That alone is its own sob story. :)

Who is the manufacture and what is the model of your new computer? I suspect the motherboard has a 9-pin slot inside, if there isn't a serial port next to your VGA port. I can mail you a 9-pin serial port (like the one previously mentioned for $6.60). I've got a few of these scattered around...

Same here...my wife loves The Bachelor on ABC. Once I showed her how to watch it an hour later (once the kids were in bed) and then she thought my simple setup was pretty cool. But, I'll never forget the day I put the pole in the ground and first mounted my dish. She opened that window so...

Great news! I had e-mailed Fortec a day after I initially posted here. They got back to me this morning. They recommended 1004 and it worked! Every satellite had 'Lock Sat = Yes' and Parental Control was 'Lock'. I know I didn't lock every satellite down, but suspect I may have with Galaxy...

Well, I gave it a shot to reload the firmware again, in case it never took the first one. I loads fine but keeps asking for this PIN (that doesn't work). So I figured maybe you can't reload the same firmware on-top of itself, so I thought I'd cancel the update to corrupt it and make it reload...

I am pretty sure I have the 'lock satellite' turned on...but I can't get into it to turn it off, nor can I get into the Parental Controls. Here's what I did: 1. Decided to blind scan Galaxy 18, so I went in to Manual Scan and deleted the TPs. 2. Went into Automatic Scan and chose FTA-ALL and...

Well, this just went from bad to worse. Neither 1010 nor 1668 worked. I found my RS232 cable for I reinstalled the firmware and it's still asking for a PIN. What baffles me is it won't take the PIN I setup in the Parental Control...so it makes me think something else is wrong with it. Anyway...

Ditto! And as of today (7/30) it's still working even though SkyAngel ended their broadcast and went IPTV (or something like that). There was one day when it was gone, but it worked the next, so I think the SkyAngel route is a safe bet. I have 32 channels listed for Galaxy 18 (I have two...

I'll try those codes tonight. Worse case scenario, I need to reinstall the firmware I got from the Fortec site. I did this a while back to (hopefully) resolve the 'fast time' issue. Every so often the receiver would not turn on with the remote and the time was adjusting faster than 60 minutes...

I wonder if I've got the Satellite Lock turned on (in Antenna Setup). Now if only I can get a PIN to work...I wonder if there is a way to reset the receiver without using the menu (hard reboot)?

I went into the Parental Control and entered the old PIN and created a new PIN, but left it 'unlocked'. Now everything is locked down and my PIN doesn't work. I'm going to check the manual for a way to force a factory reset (as that's now locked down too). No idea what this thing is doing...

Ok, I thought this happened once before with my receiver and what I thought I did to fix it didn't work this time... Some history: Once a month or so I like to Power Scan (Blind Scan) on my receiver. I also like to keep a clean/neat receiver, so if I Power Scan a satellite I delete all the...

I never put anything (like foil or tape) on mine. Once I removed the transmitter a couple other pieces fell off too. It works fine without the pieces that fell off. It should work just fine for you.