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    Coolsat 8000 HD or Coolsat 8100 HD

    I have a CS8000 & an AZBox Elite. For our "everyday viewer", we use the CS8000 b/c it's been pretty easy for my wife to figure out how to change channels & satellites with it. To me, the cs8000 is an excellent tool to have for just watching TV. It's tuner seems to be more sensitive for...
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    Sonic Voom Headphones

    I bought mine off of ebay. Occasionally, I've seen one 'for sale' in the classifieds here at SG's.
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    Suggestions for decent FTA system for around $100-$150

    Based on MY 'beginner' experiences I would recommend the following: 1) Get a motor. That's more important to me than dish size. It's easier to aim a motorized dish than it is aim a stationary dish. To me a 30" dish with a motor is better than a larger dish & the money's about the same. 2) Right...
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    c band satellite

    NO whatever you do, don't fool with it. In fact you need to remove it from your property, and as far as that goes, remove it from your country. Load the dish & other stuff up into a rental van, fill all the available empty space up with Moosehead or Molson's and drive it down to South Carolina...
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    What's tops in satellite projects on your "When Spring Arrives" list?

    And those "pine-bore beetles" could spread and cause other problems in the future also.
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    What's tops in satellite projects on your "When Spring Arrives" list?

    I gotta figure out a 'non-satellite' excuse to sell my wife on to get rid of about 10 large pines which are blocking my BUD's LOS from 72W to 83W and from 101W through about 119W. Also, if she visits her sister for a couple of weeks, I really could use a third line of RG6 run from my dish...
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    Compensating for dish elevation with motor's latitude adjustment?

    Actually Radar, I am trying to track the arc with it. Here's what my goal is: I want a semi-fixed dish that can occasionally be easily repositioned at least from 72W to 101 or 105 W. So the suggestions have been relevant. I didn't get as far as I wanted yesterday. But I did get my contraption...
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    Compensating for dish elevation with motor's latitude adjustment?

    Update on my project: After a little thinking while walking up & down the aisles of a local HD store and a Lowes & stumbling around in my garage, I hit on the idea of mitering wedges out of some old-used "5-4" deck boards to slip between the dish's back plate & the pole sleeve assembly. I...
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    Compensating for dish elevation with motor's latitude adjustment?

    I remember considering trying this a couple of years ago. But I won the now dead motor in a contest & installed that instead. Fortunately I had bought a used spare for $25. I think that it will be more convenient & precise setting the latitude utilizing the shell of the dead motor. Also, I...
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    Compensating for dish elevation with motor's latitude adjustment?

    That is an excellent mod, Phlatwound. I think, however, I'm going to try using a spacer between the plates first. The motor's arm fits beautifully except for needing about 10 degrees of more 'travel'.
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    Compensating for dish elevation with motor's latitude adjustment?

    Thanks Mikey, I think that idea would work also. If mine doesn't work this might be the '1.02' attempt. There is one significant difference b/t the mounting designs of the DN shown & the DTV: the sleeve assembly on the Slimline is a separate piece that can be removed from back plate. The...
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    Compensating for dish elevation with motor's latitude adjustment?

    Hey guys, I'm not going to buy another motor; the point of the project is to salvage some use out of a motor gone bad & a slimline that was just setting around doing nothing & basically have only $5-10 extra into it. So it's going to have to mount shaft down. I am going to try getting 3/4" to 1"...
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    Compensating for dish elevation with motor's latitude adjustment?

    That's what I was afraid of...I think I might be able to get more elevation adjustment by using piece of 1" x 4" or 1" x 6" as a spacer between the sleeve and the back plate of the dish.
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    Compensating for dish elevation with motor's latitude adjustment?

    Gotta a question that I cannot wrap my mind around: If I can't adjust a dish up to its correct elevation, can I compensate for that by raising the latitude setting on the motor? (I'm attempting a project where I trying to install a DTV Slimline onto a 'shell' of a SG2100 whose motor roached...
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    Which Coolsat to Buy

    If the channel scanned is HD or 422, I think it sometimes shows up as a "$" channel.
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    :::Giveaway for testing from WS International:::

    "I want to review the all new WS7630 dish Vs. my Fortec Star 75cm dish". Actually, my dish is an 80 cm dish, but maybe that's close enough. Good thing is that I'm in SC, so winter weather shouldn't be a huge issue. Gotta SG2100 motor that I'm using & my set-up is tracking the arc pretty well. I...
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    The BEST western movie EVER

    The Searchers have to be on that list along with Once Upon a Time in the West (Henry Fonda as a villain!!) And though it was a miniseries & not a movie, the original Lonesome Dove is best western (and the best TV) I've ever seen.
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    Coolsat 8000Hd?

    It's hackware (the suffix 'F' indicates hackware) but that f/w works better for me than the factory file did. Since the CS8000 is no longer useful for pirating, I don't think there is an ethical issue with just keeping that file. BTW: Brent, who is from the beautiful west coast of Michigan...
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    CONTEST - Enter to Win: GEOSATpro DVR1100c w/15GB HDD, 90cm Dish - Complete System

    Playing touch football in the Orchard Drive Football League. And then going and drinking beer & watching George Blanda pull another one out for the Raiders on NBC.
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    Entering AC3 PID on CS8000?

    Thanks Ice. I'll try the hard reboot 1st, then go for the TP delete, re-enter next if needed. But not 'til FOOTBALL is done of course:)
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    Entering AC3 PID on CS8000?

    Thanks Brent. I'll try that after I'm done watching FB with it. Thanks to your help, I've really gotten a lot of use out of this box.
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    Entering AC3 PID on CS8000?

    The West HD PBS feed on 12138 did not scan in on auto pid even after 3 tries. So I went to the pid scan and entered the pid data listed in the list, I got the video great, but now I have the "No Audio" box displayed. I entered "68" if memory serves for the apid. The East HD feed scanned in just...
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    Entering AC3 PID on CS8000?

    Hey guys, when you have to manually scan the PIDS, what should be entered for the AC3 pids?
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    MT PBS switch to S2

    No luck with my CS8000 either.
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    Idiot's Guide for CS8000??

    Well I selected 95w (somehow I overlooked the CORRECT sat (97) :eek:) added the tps for for both sto sd & hd temporary feeds, manually scanned each. The sd scanned in in less than a second; the hd took about 30 seconds or so. I watched a few minutes of the KC/Tribe in HD, then moved the BUD to...
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