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I don't know where you would find a complete replacement, but if you can just patch what's there, I had good luck with Kwikmesh, which is a flashing that Home Depot sells in rolls. The mesh size and shape was almost identical to that on my dish, and it is springy enough that it molds well to the...

I second what Auric said. My DMX741 (bought two weeks ago) came with a bad jumper as well. It tightened down, but did not make a very good connection internally apparently. Replaced it and instantly got a much better signal strength on KU. Also I found with my 7' that once I had peaked the dish...

I was wondering about that myself. When I got ready for a new TV last year I went to Best Buy. They have many on the wall all with the same signal, and the wall they hang them on is fairly dark so you don't see as much glare. From what I could see, the ones that are higher refresh rate do a lot...

Anole, to be honest I never pay that much attention. As long as the TPs were right I really didn't look at the details. I simply blind scan every satellite every few weeks or so. I do have a lot of duplicates now, so I guess that's probably the reason. It wouldn't have occurred to me that an...

I have not seen any of the other receivers, but I can tell you that the 410 has very few menu options. The only thing in the menus that was even related was the ability to switch from horizontal to vertical manually, and I'm not sure that feature even works. As I mentioned above, this is a black...

Just an update. I did get it working. I had to rotate the LNB 90 degrees counterclockwise, then I had a signal on both. The other problem turned out to be the Sonicview. I can have the 410 looped through the receiver, but the receiver cannot be on while I'm using the 410. The Sonicview overrides...

Thanks. That makes sense. I just tried it, and the moment that I hit the power button on the viewsat remote, the little sat dish icon on the front of the 410 changed from green to red and the signal went away altogether.

Thanks for the help. I'm trying to understand how the above effects my problem. This is a motorized C-Band setup that has worked well for about six months now. If I change the skew 90 degrees then I lose the ability to pull in normal signals from the dish, don't I? That would mean that I...

Odd problem with the DSR410 I just bought. I was able to sub without a problem, then it got a bit weird. Once I had it hooked up, I could only receive horizontal not vertical. At that point I had it looped through a Sonicview 8000hd and a v-box. So then I connected the dish coax directly to...

t134, Everything else aside, the use of a derogatory word seems to be at the heart of this reaction. From a marketing standpoint it might be worth considering dropping that word in favor of something more neutral and mainstream. Why alienate potential customers?

Art7220, Long story short: We were sold counterfeit copies of XP by some eBay seller. They wouldn't register. We contacted Microsoft and eBay. eBay barred the seller. We sent the counterfeits back to MS and they sent us new legal copies for reporting the counterfeits. They were XP Pro and...

October? Yikes! OK, I did check the classifieds. I'll go that route. I didn't think to look. Have not had good experiences with Ebay in some time. Illegal copies of XP a few months ago, a couple of scams run on my wife a year or two ago when she was selling, so I tend to go with places with...

Thought I might pass this along. All of the activity and positive experiences here made me decide to make the jump. I ordered from the Skyvision web site over the weekend. This was the response this morning. It turns out that the receivers are back ordered. I guess that must be a good thing...

Does anyone have experience with this positioner? I ran across it on ebay and thought that if I were to spend a bit more I might get a higher quality unit. I have completely had it with the v-box 10 that I purchased a couple of months ago. I have re-soldered numerous connections, hard...

OK. Got up this morning, turned everything on and now I have the ER2 again. It was just fine yesterday and the day before. I'll try taking it apart this weekend and see about the solder joints. It has to be something intermittent, and that would seem to indicate the box, especially since...

Thanks! I went through and re-tightened everything, then I checked the connections on the back of the Vbox. Trying to re-seat the wires in the wire clamps on the back caused them to come apart, with the plastic clamp and spring falling out of the back of the unit.. I did manage to get everything...

I just finished setting up and logging all of the TPs on all of the sats I can see on my C-Band setup on Thursday last. Predictably, I go off for the weekend, come back, and the V-Box throws a consistent Er2 error when I try to move the dish. Oddly, I can move the dish with no problem in both...

I second what is above. I just motorized my 7' dish yesterday using vbox-x, sprinkler timer cable, and the PMA24 actuator from WSI. For some reason the SV360 receiver sees west as east and vice versa regardless of what I do, but otherwise I am extremely happy with this setup with a little over a...

Thanks for all of the ideas! I hadn't thought of cat5. I already have a roll of that Home Depot sprinkler timer wire that has been in the garage for some time. I think I'll try that first. There isn't anything in the way between the house and the dish so I'll just hook it up on the surface as...

Bought the actuator and the V-Box is on the way. I've searched the discussions and have seen that some folks use sprinkler timer wire for the purpose, but in most discussions people don't talk about the specific wire/gauge. Since I have a hundred foot run from the dish to my living room, and...

Found this listing and thought I might pass it along. May be more trouble than it is worth given the height, but someone more skilled than I at such things may not think so. Hanford is near Visalia, Bakersfield, and Fresno. Big Satellite Dish

Quick update. I wanted to post something to let people know what the final disposition was and to add (ever so slightly) to the body of knowledge here. I just got the dish up and happily receiving signals from 91w. Man I had no idea how much is really up there! I'm currently at about 75...

Thanks! Thanks for the replies. I'll give it a shot. The mesh on this one is held on with machine screws instead of a channel, so it should be even easier than what you all describe. Off to Home Depot in the morning to find parts. Thanks for the ideas! Nice to know I can use it as an antenna...

I just dragged an old 7.5 foot Laser home from the desert. The mesh is in pretty bad shape and the LNB and actuator will have to be replaced. I don't think it has been used in 15 years given what the people who had it told me. Cruising around the web reading, people have used flashing to replace...

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