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I got into FTA DVB pretty much as soon as I found out about it LOL.

I have a mercury II that I love, awesome box with some really nice features ;-)

Love my pstar dishes, they work awesome for FTA ;-)

Have you checked to see if your diseq switch has gone wonky?

I make SURE that all my roof expeditions are done while someone is home :-D Sure would hate to be laying there all day till someone came home...

I have a 10' perfed (pencil lead size holes) channel master BUD with a corotor that has no problem outperforming my 1.2 channel master on KU. I think the perfed dishes offer a lot more reflective surface than the mesh dishs do, hence the better signal strength.

My WAF is VERY high, she loves all the quality channels we get. Of course it helps we get A team :D, one of her favorite shows when she was a child.

I have had a winegard 76cm for 3 years and it has performed very well for most FTA applications. While not the best dish for g10 or other weaker sats if you are located in a "fringe" area (read the satellite footprints ;) ), it is still a very well built dish that has better performance than...

Kennard, I would NOT put a phone number on an open forum. You can ask to have members PM you information instead. Just my .02 ;)

Best bet to get RTN now is to set up a KU FTA system. Personally I hope dish never offers RTN, cause if they do they will most likely force equity to encrypt :(

While I sometimes complain about the snow, it really is very beautiful here today with a nice fresh layer of about 12" of white fluffy stuff. Here are some pics taken around my house early this morning.

Nice find, I have been using an extigy for decoding ac-3 in the front room, and was looking for a different (and cheaper) way to decode ac-3 in my bedroom. Now I know how to do it on the cheap :-D

Here is a cute ad that was run in the local papers "absolutely free" section: "Absolutely free, 200 cubic yards of snow, you pick up and move" Had to laugh when i saw that one :D

Tony, Your roof looks like mine did on the front of the house where there was about 24 inches of snow. The back of my roof (where the snow drifted from the front) had enough snow to completely bury my 76 cm winegard, there was no part of the dish visible. As to our nice weather we had been...

speaking of the motor swap anology, I once saw a blown 396 in a mazda rx7, the owner said he did it cause he was told he couldn't do it :-D major engineering ensued........... Back on thread, i dont recommend trying to do what the OP proposed.

Tony, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE dont send us anymore snow :D Thank You, Doc

Wow, for once i cant really complain! we are having nice early spring weather, days in the high 20's- low 30's with lots of sunshine. Perfect temps to let the snow pack and the dirt roads melt slowly (hopefully no spring flooding this year), lets hope it continues :D

Thank you for the review!

I parked my motorized 10' BUD on c4 during the storm and never lost reception. My 6'er is pointed (fixed) at g 4/16 which is around a 45 degree elevation here, it works great as a snow catcher. I have to clean it off after any significant snowfall. The heaviest snow cover we have had since I...

For some odd reason i lost signal on the buried dish (76 cm pointed at amc 3), seems like microwaves dont go thru deep snow that well :P Luckily my main FTA dish is my p* pointed at g10, it is close enough to the side of the roof that it did not get buried.

I would love to see some pics from upstate NY, those poor folks have been getting buried with snow.

dfergie, Were you still getting reception? That looks like about 4" of snow on the dish, usually I can still get signal with that much snow.

I lost signal on the 6'er until i cleared snow off of it this am. The 10'er was aimed at low elevation sats so there was no significant accumulation and I never lost signal during the storm. One of my KU dishs is completely buried on the back of my roof, I am going up tomorrow and shovel it all off.

Thought you folks would get a kick out some pics i took this morning. When looking at them please remember that my c band dishs are on high poles, normally i can walk under them at the lowest elevation without hitting my head (i am 6' tall). Next to my 10' BUD you can see my 1.2 meter dish...

The only way I know how to do this is with an orthomode feedhorn such as the chapperal that you mention. Limitations to this type of setup is that you can only watch one satellite at a time, so both recievers are limited to channels on that satellite. Also buying all the LNBs gets kind of...