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    Actuator sources

    The United States has opened the floods gates for cheap Chinese Junk for the home consumer market, vehicle parts, construction supplies, just about anything you can think of. Dangerous baby toys, poison sheet rock, home wiring mis-labled. The American consumer is demanding CHEAP, and cheap is...
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    10ft mesh dish panels ?

    Back in the Mid 1980's, I had a Winegard 10foot mesh dish. Two panels were destroyed by a terrible ice/snow/rain storm. I got some Aluminum Flashing at the lumber yard. I made cardboard pattern for the panel. The pattern was made a little wider than the mesh since it woudl sit on top of the...
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    Cant Receive C Band Programming

    Ok, will do. So any receiver that is FTA DVB will work for my needs ? Do any of the FTA receivers come with dish positioners/skew like the old analog receivers did. Also, I have two of the old Macom descramblers. Are these also paper weights LOL ? One is intergrated in the Houston Tracker...
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    Cant Receive C Band Programming

    Many thanks for all that good info. I understand what you shared. Now I have a lot of reading and learning about digital vs analog. I will probably have more questions later down the road. Thank You 8Valve
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    Cant Receive C Band Programming

    Thanks for the fast response. Can I use my existing LNB to feed a Coolsat 5000 ? So my existing receivers are useless except to position and skew ? Can you direct me to a link that would list available C Band programming that is Free to Air ? And Lastly, even though the new transmissions are...
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    Cant Receive C Band Programming

    Thanks to Google, I have found this wonderful resource. Please forgive me for not doing a lot of search/read. I live very remote in the Mountains and connect to the web via 24.4K Dial Up. Its basically useless. A little background. In the Mid 1980's I bought my first C Band system and over...