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All I've used for years is plain electrical tape. The first couple of wraps are tight so they form to the fitting and seal tight. And then wrap it a couple of more times just to give it a good cover. I also fold over the very end so I have a tab to pull on when I want to remove it to swap out...

That could be a "heat of the day" issue.

If your house is a wood stick construction with a truss and plywood roof, it may be the moisture content of the wood because of winter. Winter really drys out the wood and that can cause shrinkage which will alter the various angles of house walls and roofs (although slightly). Or maybe, the...

MODERATOR, please remove reference to FTV so they don't scramble it again. Thank you.

Something to consider about CBS and others saying they encrypted signals because of ITC postings on Ricks - of course they would say that. If they actually gain their information by logging on private forums, they have to protect their methods and procedures, making Ricks a handy diversion...

I'll throw my 2 cents in the pot. When an organization decides to encrypt a program, its not based on whether a few thousand FTA'ers are watching a feed but if someone is taking their signal and making money with it. Its about money and not letting others make money on your dime. They also...

Here's a couple of url's that might be useful. These pages concern the design of a SETI antenna scalar ring and feedhorn but the theory is the same. The first one has general information and concepts. The other is a xls spreadsheet for designing a feedhorn and scalar ring. Be advised, the...

It almost sounds like an IC power regulator chip is cycling from normal operation to an overload condition then back to normal operation, over and over. If everything else fails, try disconnecting the coax to the dish and any other external accessories (to reduce electrical load) and see if the...

The ground is a sand, gravel, rock mix. This area has the glacial deposit from the last ice age push down from Canada. Its not really that hard to dig down through but I think the coarseness of the mixture seems to lock the soil together when put under pressure. Good luck.

Here is a picture of my ground mount 10 foot Orbitron. I didn't have a pole long enough to concrete it into the ground so I improvised. Its been this way for about 5-6 years now without problems. Instead of turnbuckles, I used a doubled-up cable with a rod in the middle to twist the cable to...

Here's a small experiment that might help. Point a flashlight directly at a wall and you'll see a circle. Now, point the flashlight about 25 degrees upward at the wall and the beam becomes an ellipse, just about like the shape of an offset antenna. The shape of the dish helps reflect the...

It has to do with geometry and the satellite signal reflectivity angle. The offset dish is not really a parabolic dish. If it was, it would have the focal point in the center like the prime focus dish. An offset dish is a combination ellipse-parabola-hollow circle sector design to move the...

Although the Satcodx charts have left, Satcodx users are being redirected to the Satbeams website. Satbeams also has a very interesting satellite charts setup, like Lyngsat and Sathint. Might be something to look at. The more the merrier. Good luck.

The design of a prime focus dish is to reflect and concentrate the signals from the satellite to a single, small area called the focal cloud (focal point). This focal cloud is about the size of a golf ball and the idea is to position the feedhorn so the focal cloud is just inside the feedhorn's...

I don't think there's a way to delete them all at once. I had to delete them one satellite at a time. A little slower but it got done.

10 foot mesh with a corotor. Have fun.

Just for fun, I scanned some satellites for S2 transponders (except the Dish Network types). Below is the list. Some are QPSK and others are 8PSK. Not all are programs; there are data streams, encrypted programs and blank screens (maybe open feed channels). I think it shows that S2 is well...

Here's a couple of thoughts. Dish receivers have timer functions and parental/system lock functions. The lock function requires a password to change an item. Can the receiver be configured, by timer, to cause a channel change to a boring music channel at a certain time needing a password to...

You need to adjust your dish and/or skew till G1-5 comes in clear. That should not be a problem with an 8 foot dish. Once its crystal clear, you'll probably find that G1-3 will have a DC light. Good luck.

I find this thread interesting for another reason. I thought Dish had swapped over to the G3 Nagra encryption system and that this system was secure and not hacked yet. If their encryption system is secure, then why even send such a message, whether in-the-clear or encrypted? The topic of...

I respectfully disagree. The signal quality is not a measurement of RF energy but of the amount of error correction occuring, thus indicating the quality of data flow. For example, if the signal quality is 100%, that means that 100 percent of the data flow received is being processed without...

This new Retrojams has included some additional videos not in the previous lineup. They have also reprogrammed their video sets. Now, one of the sets is about 24 hours of videos in alphabetical order. So you end up with 5 Inxs videos consectutively, then 8 Madonna videos, then 6 Michael...

I live out in the woods with only turtle-speed dial-up. No cable, cell or DSL and not much chance of getting any of those (although there are millions in the stimulus package for rural broadband, I'm not holding my breath). I've found the quickest way to access this, and other sites, is to use...

If its ok with your management, you might try to custom-make a mounting plate that clamps to your window sill. That way it won't need any holes drilled and you could just open the window to adjust the dish. Good luck.

I modified a couple of LNBs using a slightly different technique, specifically in the adding ceramic to the puck and also the tuning area. For adding more ceramic to the puck, I used the ceramic puck out of an old, noisy c-band LNB. (They're all over the place for nothing) The pucks in these...