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Sorry guys, I'm feeling stupid...and about to show it. According to what I understand @ true south :
I set the elevation to 36.6 degrees, based on my Latitude (Modified chart slightly different)
Declination 5.8 degrees
Sooooo... 36.6 - 5.8 = 30.8 for the end results.
That seems straight forward until I go to dishpointer and see that
78W (my near south bird) is listed at 47.5 degrees elevation ... not (roughly) 30.8. I just want to be sure I should be shooting for 36.6 degrees and NOT 47.5 degrees?
The slop in this old dish is making it hard to visualize the effects of small adjustments.I need to set the elevation and declination correctly and just live with the slop until I can do some repairs.
Thanks folks!
<Going back to the short bus>
I set the elevation to 36.6 degrees, based on my Latitude (Modified chart slightly different)
Declination 5.8 degrees
Sooooo... 36.6 - 5.8 = 30.8 for the end results.
That seems straight forward until I go to dishpointer and see that
78W (my near south bird) is listed at 47.5 degrees elevation ... not (roughly) 30.8. I just want to be sure I should be shooting for 36.6 degrees and NOT 47.5 degrees?
The slop in this old dish is making it hard to visualize the effects of small adjustments.I need to set the elevation and declination correctly and just live with the slop until I can do some repairs.
Thanks folks!
<Going back to the short bus>
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Fat Air .... When I said the bushing was 'tight' I meant it was not worn or loose in the hole. (tight = good) The pivot bolt spins in it ok with the declination unbolted.
Before I painted the mount, I tapped loose rust off with a hammer,ground with a grinder,etc then greased everything up.Come to think of it...I DID have to free up the pivot bolt at the bottom with a hammer and penetrating oil! It would barely turn when I started.All I thought of was...hey...this needs to move freely. Never thought about how it might have caused warpage elsewhere.(Heck,I'd never looked at a BUD before)
I string-tested it OFF the ring before assembly and it was good.(Only 12 to 6 and 3 to 9 though) I better string-test it mounted as well with 3 strings.
Then I'm gonna either pry it into alignment or break something and do some welding.Followed by a new set-up.
The little bit that I was able to pry out by myself this morning threw the dish west 3 positioner clicks.After recalibrating each sat...I can already tell that it is more consistent on the stops now.Actuator moves smoother also.
Not sure if I mentioned this before,but the pivot bolt and the clamp bolts were definitely newer than the mount as well.Everything leads me to believe this dish had some sort of 'accident' in the past.
This is the best it has been to date.With y'alls expert advice,I may get this whipped yet.Thanks!
I'll probably be quite for a while.Be a few days before I can work on it again.
EDIT: Quiet,not quite lol
Before I painted the mount, I tapped loose rust off with a hammer,ground with a grinder,etc then greased everything up.Come to think of it...I DID have to free up the pivot bolt at the bottom with a hammer and penetrating oil! It would barely turn when I started.All I thought of was...hey...this needs to move freely. Never thought about how it might have caused warpage elsewhere.(Heck,I'd never looked at a BUD before)
I string-tested it OFF the ring before assembly and it was good.(Only 12 to 6 and 3 to 9 though) I better string-test it mounted as well with 3 strings.
Then I'm gonna either pry it into alignment or break something and do some welding.Followed by a new set-up.
The little bit that I was able to pry out by myself this morning threw the dish west 3 positioner clicks.After recalibrating each sat...I can already tell that it is more consistent on the stops now.Actuator moves smoother also.
Not sure if I mentioned this before,but the pivot bolt and the clamp bolts were definitely newer than the mount as well.Everything leads me to believe this dish had some sort of 'accident' in the past.
This is the best it has been to date.With y'alls expert advice,I may get this whipped yet.Thanks!
I'll probably be quite for a while.Be a few days before I can work on it again.
EDIT: Quiet,not quite lol
I have the identical KTI dish but have never seen that particular mount, specifically the clamping mechanism on the pole. On mine the tube that slides onto the top of the pole is solid, not split, and is tightened onto the pole with two bolts that just tighten against the pole. The elevation adjustment screw fastens to a tab welded onto the mount. Here's an image from the KTI catalog and instruction manual.
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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.
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.
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Aikman says he looks forward to "where my next landing spot will be."
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So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
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For the naysayers who did not think this service would make it, just added another 4.9M subscribers and that was after the removal of 1.2M Russia subscribers.
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Now compare that to Peacock with only 13 million paid, 13 million free.
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So, this means that those of us with Commercial Free subs, won't be Commercial Free, unless we wait till after the show is over ?
Which would make same day, not that big of a deal.
Paramount+ has always had the CBS shows on the CBS local channel and yes with commercials. What they are doing now is releasing the OnDemand versions of the show which I believe they don't release until after the shows air on the west coast. And they will be commercial free if you subscribe to the ad free version of Paramount+.So, this means that those of us with Commercial Free subs, won't be Commercial Free, unless we wait till after the show is over ?
Which would make same day, not that big of a deal.
I wasn't up at 3:00 am to check but they are there at 8:00 am today.
The new curated multiview is now live.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
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