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Get her ready for those 16apsk signals, when weather allows. I think more of them are coming.

Im happy to have a fixed (extra) c-band dish on 101, so when I get a Me-TV urge, there's no wait for the motor to move to it, haha. Plus those other me-owned channels are there also, I thought they were going away but they still seem to be up. Of course there's also 99w for me, and cozi on...

Hey shicks4 I didn't word my message exactly clearly>I lost those channels too, even on the big dish. I checked after I posted that message late, and none of them would work for me. I still got Me-tv though, and I guess the movies channel is still on 99west but I haven't looked at it today to be...

Shicks4 in another thread I mentioned the heat problem with those X2 boxes. Walmart has a 10-11dollar laptop cooler that will keep that little rec working better. I have one of them also, works well for about 45min then it starts doing really crazy things-it just gets too hot without a fan on it...

Nice work iBoston, don't think you'll have to worry about that mount flying apart like the original. I envy you folks who have the equipment and know how to weld, it was something I never thought I'd need to learn, way back when. They are saying some hot signals on c-band on 72W lately if you're...

Great job RT, I see why you mounted them that way now. I have a 7.5 winegard and the supports on it go all the way to the edge of the dish and bend over it, with a bolt through the rim of the dish. I think yours is the way to go, and on my project-dish I can drill right through the rib of the...

Rt I don't exactly follow what your picture shows, it looks like that's from the backside of the dish. I'd like to see how you made the arms themselves, not much with metal fabbing myself. I was thinking conduit also, but how do you get the ends flat to attach them-hammer, or a good vise?

Might be time to fab up a 4-legged support for it. I'm rebuilding a 10' unk brand mesh that I had, and that's what I'll have to do with it because the original buttonhook got lost, broken, or scrapped over the years it lay in pieces lol.

Back when I first got the Hits2Home receiver I had a spare 7.5dish that wasn't being used, and tried it out for that service. Worked fine for 3-4yrs that I needed it, but I only had one crank also, and was using it on another 'parked' dish. I just took my old traxis 3500 to the dish, got the...

Love to have an 8 or 10' solid that was well made, and use it for ku only. My little 1m primestars serve me well, but I'm sure a bigger dish would clear up a few iffy feeds. When you see what cable companies use to receive with, makes me envious.

I think they terminated 'em again today, Brian, they're gone again for me lol. Not a big deal, I can always find something to watch with fta!

Yep they seemed to have fixed whatever the problem was, hope it stays fixed. Didn't somebody say these channels were going to scramble at years end, or was that just a rumor?

Sounds complicated. I think I have mine fixed, with the somewhat loose pole. After I spent about 4hrs over a couple of 96degree days beating a new hole out in the rock, I had another brainstorm. Decided I would just dig out all around the existing concrete pad, which wasn't nearly thick as it...

Rt was your lnb working before you had to work on the pole? Maybe you got off-axis when you took the dish down? Or did you leave the mount and just drop the dish-don't look like that would bother with any of the settings much.

To the OP: Do it as best you can. I discovered today that my biggest dish, my 10' Sami, has begun to wobble in its hole, and it near solid rock here like wvman talks about. I can't recall when I put that one in, but it was in the mid 90's. I dug it as deep as I could by beating out a hole...

Wow I had a 2 day time warp on this project, thanks for all the info. FTA4PA had a great pictorial of his refurb-a-motor job too. Mine doesn't look quite like his did on the inside, so I'll try to get some pictures up soon. Actually I think he re-manufactured that von. His thread was...

Found a motor that came with a freebie dish, got it about 4 yrs ago and never really looked at the motor. Outer tube is rusty and the motor end had a big plastic cover over most of it, but it looked horrendous when I took the dish down and brought it home. So I never thought much about it...

Check the Harmony remote website for it-you can search the database of everything they cover. I believe you start out by finding the Support tab, then you can enter your device's name/model and it'll tell you whether they have it. They're cheapest remote seems to be around 50bucks, handles up to...

That one would be fun! Mesh dish isn't that heavy, but if you're alone it'd be tricky. I would take the motor off the back, let the dish swing all the way down where you can reach the bolts. Usually they're just 4 quarters, or panels bolted together. Bolts may be rusty, and twist off. Once you...

Hank I have some mesh panels that came off a black dish, but if you want to send me the measurements I would check against the size of what I have. Never had a P-clypse dish so I'm not sure how they fasten. If you get the dish and want to re-build it , let me know. I won't try to rob you over...

Lobo I didnt see anything on that site about the 24th being the end, but by golly>it has happened. End of an era, wonder if technology will ever allow for c-band direct to home subscriptions ever again? The local telco has been running fiber all summer, just got a letter last wk saying we will...

Looks like the end came early, getting no signals on any channel on my HITS rec, all are saying Subscription required. I was paid up to the end of month anyway, lol. Good while it lasted. Edit: My mistake-I was not paid until the end, only until 21st! The way my billing period ran..they sent me...

armadillo, nice work in the mud. After I read the first post, I had to read it all, haha. I was going to tell you I still have one of those "super sensor" things in my pile of parts, but since you stripped out the tube you won't need it. I couldn't remember what it went with, I've had it in the...

Fatair can do 3d modeling in his head! I think I only have a 2d head, lol. That dish should be tracking if it's got a good shape, the elevation is fairly close to correct, and the declination is set. That picture in the prev post shows the declination thing pretty well, it's all about lining up...

Me too0! I mean, My system is doing similar aggravating things on the Movies!, Decades and Heroes channels. ME-tv running fine though. I was about to blame my setup, or the gusty winds today. Must be uplink problems they haven't figured out yet.