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I need advice installing c band sat system. I have some experience with ku band. I installed a 90cm dish and invacom lnb that works great in ku band.
Now I want to get satmex5 and 6 and I read that I needed a bigger dish, so I got a deal for $100.
I bought the following used equipment:
7.5ft mesh dish, chaparral lnb , homecable HCC9300 videocipher RS descrambler equiped receiver, servo-rotor arm and lots of ribbon cable.
I also have a (from my ku band system) a sonicview 360 elite and a DMX741U LNBF C/KU band LNB.
mesh dish is not warp and receiver is ok.
is this enough equipment to catch satmex5 and 6? I live in Dallas tx.
It's possible to piggy back the sonicview to HCC9300? how to send signal to multiple TV sets?
I appreciate any advice that you can provide me with.
Thanks!
I am attaching some pics of my project.
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Pics of my project

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FaT Air
cant get all channels?
What all have you done? Did you adjust the polar elevation to peak Q on 97W. Is the declination correct. Have you adjusted the azimuth for tracking the arc? or does it track the arc with all sats showing low Q? Is the LNB skew correct? Guess we have to know what was done, and how, to try deduce what's amiss.
Lone Gunman
I'm with Fat Air. It sounds to me like you need to "tweak" that dish/LNBF a little more. As little as .032 of an inch can cause MAJOR problems with Q. So tell us what you've done so far.

FYI, there's very few feeds that my 7.5 ft SAMI dish won't pull in. Q is down a little from my 10ft Winegard but I can get most of the feeds on the SAMI that I get on the WINEGARD.
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A BIG THANK YOU!!! to all of you guys who helped me in this project.
I ordered an openbox receiver and now I have too many sats and channels that I can watch.
I only have couple of questions;
I have the DMX LNB dual band C/KU wired in my dish but I can only get C band signal, I try different settings for KU band but keep getting only the C band sat's.
Any ideas or sugestions?
KU band doesnt have any good sat's tv that worth to watch but it will be nice to have that too.
the second question is:
The arch where the sats are located are limited by the lenght of the arm rotor, mine only reach to galaxy 12, 133 W and 79 W.
There is plenty room for my sami dish to travel but is limited by the arm actuator. I try to check the size of my superjack II+ actuator I think is an 18" size.
Thank you again for all your input.
FaT Air
DMX 741U uses Diseqc to select band, and is universal Ku (Universal 9750/10600 LO, 22khz automatic) program Diseqc #1 for C (standard 5150), #2 for Ku
The DMX 741 uses standard LO's (5150C, 10750Ku) but uses 22Khz to select band - OFF for C, ON for Ku.
To disable scanning un-used frequencies in NA, with a universal Ku LNBF, Select standard lnb, set LO to 10600 and 22 khz to ON.
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Another Tulsa King spin off.🙄
dishstaller
Another Tulsa King spin off.🙄
But.....if you like Tulsa King....looks like you would probably like this as well. I don't mind spin-offs as long as they don't involve a sassy niece who moves from the big city :rolleyes:
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I thought I would come here and find lots of complaints about the update to the dish anywhere mobile app, but am not seeing any. It used to look just like the desktop webpage. Now you can no longer filter by sports channels or movie channels. Plus that they made it look like a big button telephone and you see fewer channels in the screen which requires more scrolling. Yes I realize you can look at sports then select which sport you want to look at, I just liked being able to see all sporting events in the guide with all other channels being filtered out. Am I alone in the wilderness on this?
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Juan
Not alot of dish customers any more
Foxbat
I'm not a big fan of the new layout, especially on my Apple TV. It used to look like the old Guide layout on the Hopper 3, but they changed parts of that, too.
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I really dislike change for the sake of change
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Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.

I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
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Jimbo

Howard ...
You don't like Tony, or Tony as the Director (he's only been there for 30 seconds now) or you don't like NCIS ?
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Howard ...
You don't like Tony, or Tony as the Director (he's only been there for 30 seconds now) or you don't like NCIS ?
Tony as the director.🙄
Jimbo
Tony as the director.🙄
Would you rather have LaRoche ???
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I liked this episode and a toned down Tony...
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Would you rather have LaRoche ???
No. Bring in someone new.🤔 Tony is not serious enough for me. Parker is too close to the team and Tim is too young to take over IMO.
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No. Bring in someone new.🤔 Tony is not serious enough for me. Parker is too close to the team and Tim is too young to take over IMO.
I don't think Tim and Tony are that far apart in Age ...

Remember what Tony said to Tim when they first got back together ...
Tony said: I am the New Tony, Tim .... (something to that effect)

Tony has changed, he's been running his Security Business ... I'm sure he has grown up.

Give it time ... your judging the New Tony from the old Tony.

It sounds like Tim won't be around the Team much longer either.
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Might be worth a watch when it comes out. Looks like typical big corp against the little guy movie BUT....there is a reason this plot type is so oft repeated, it draws audiences.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-f9OGsKHd4
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dishstaller
BTW, I noticed right after I posted this that someone else had already mentioned it....sorry for the duplicate thread. Still looking forward to seeing the movie.
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If you're going try to read / listen to the book (can't recommend the audio book enough) before this comes out, I'd avoid trailers.

Trailer below, spoiling it to make sure you read the above bold message first. The book / audio book are fantastic. Go into this blind if you can IMO!




Kind of disappointed at how much they show. A lot still to see, but man, some good reveals in the book that are just served up here.
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I've seen it twice. Can't recommend the audio book enough, Ray Porter's performance is amazing and there's so much more in the book than the movie.
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"Project Hail Mary" should be on Prime Video starting Friday, July 3.
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Forgot to comment. I did watch when it first came out on MGM. I enjoyed it a lot. I think reading the book made it easier to watch. Several friends commented it was a little hard to follow.
TRG
TRG
"astrophage". I read the book but didn't see the film yet.
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"Project Hail Mary" should be on Prime Video starting Friday, July 3.
That's what I will be watching this weekend.🤗
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Kindle book on sale for $2.99 today at Amazon.
dishstaller
.........there's so much more in the book than the movie.
I agree. That can go for pretty much any book vs movie. Back when I was single I would read any Stephen King or John Grisham book I could get my hands on. When you read a book you make up the scenes and characters in your mind.....the movie version always disappoints.
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Schedule drops tomorrow. Mandatory mini camps in June. Hall of Fame game August 6th.
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Selfish Drake Maye holds back on giving the ball to Bills unlike Jags game, gets the win on the road.
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Selfish Drake Maye holds back on giving the ball to Bills unlike Jags game, gets the win on the road.
A big win for the Patriots, and they are now 3-2.

Browns lose a close one with... The Jets. That is a classic Browns loss (granted, any loss is a classic one it seems). 49'ers, Vikings, and Chiefs remain undefeated. The AFC north have a three way tie at 3-2 for second place. :eek:
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Hopefully nowhere near a microphone.
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Hopefully nowhere near a microphone.
After having experienced Gus Ferguson trying to call soccer games, I'm uncertain why NFL football analysts get hate. Even the "worst" of them are pretty good.
meStevo
Jalen Hurts out indefinitely as they treat and monitor a superficial blood clot in his leg.


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