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I recently picked up a really nice Unimesh 10 foot wire mesh dish. It looked like it was straight out of the box nice. I had been using a 7.5 foot Perfect 10 to receive MeTV and the other channels on this bird and had a signal of 72/ 55 on MeTV. I peaked this dish until I was blue in the face, and that's the best it would do. However.
I took the dish I just got, checked the focal distance and centered the feed until it was literally perfect and installed a new Titanium LNBF. I took the smaller dish down, put this one on the pole and gained 2 points. It went to 72/57 and that was it. Had a whopping good signal on Start TV, 94/91 and gained a few points on all the other channels. What kind of signal are you guys getting on MeTV? Just curious!
My wife had a good laugh and said it was hardly worth the effort. Women.
I took the dish I just got, checked the focal distance and centered the feed until it was literally perfect and installed a new Titanium LNBF. I took the smaller dish down, put this one on the pole and gained 2 points. It went to 72/57 and that was it. Had a whopping good signal on Start TV, 94/91 and gained a few points on all the other channels. What kind of signal are you guys getting on MeTV? Just curious!
My wife had a good laugh and said it was hardly worth the effort. Women.
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I can tune it on a 1.2m
When i was installing BUD's we moved into an apartment until our house was finished. I had about 20 feet between our building and the one next door. To get TV, I set a 14 foot pole and mounted a 6 footer on it and got every satellite. It worked just fine, but that was before 2 degree spacing.
I ran an R.L. Drake ESR 240A receiver and a Drake dish mover. I remember a movie channel called Select TV. It was actually better than HBO & Cinemax. All the movie services were the biggest liars. They'd say "can't be seen on HBO or Showtime" and they'd be running them at the same time. We figured out you could activate one or the other for a month, then shut it off for three months and by then they'd have a couple new movies.
We got everything free for several years.
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East Texas, 25+ year old 10 foot unimesh dish with hail damage and shovel damage ( pulled up a panel removing snow)
98 signal, 98 quality on METV.
But that does not mean anything because I am using a Linkbox 9000 with an ASC1 dish mover and skew controller!
Everything is 98/98! To try to fine tune, I have run the dish back and forth, write down the #s and do the math to find the middle# !
The same with skew. I recently had to change my vertical skew to regain METV after it was lost. Others on V still came in!
What receiver are you using? LNB or LNBF?
Some receivers can be adapted to show the SNR, or DB, the right way of showing signal available.
I recently picked up a really nice Unimesh 10 foot wire mesh dish. It looked like it was straight out of the box nice. I had been using a 7.5 foot Perfect 10 to receive MeTV and the other channels on this bird and had a signal of 72/ 55 on MeTV. I peaked this dish until I was blue in the face, and that's the best it would do. However.
I took the dish I just got, checked the focal distance and centered the feed until it was literally perfect and installed a new Titanium LNBF. I took the smaller dish down, put this one on the pole and gained 2 points. It went to 72/57 and that was it. Had a whopping good signal on Start TV, 94/91 and gained a few points on all the other channels. What kind of signal are you guys getting on MeTV? Just curious!
My wife had a good laugh and said it was hardly worth the effort. Women.
East Texas, 25+ year old 10 foot unimesh dish with hail damage and shovel damage ( pulled up a panel removing snow)
98 signal, 98 quality on METV.
But that does not mean anything because I am using a Linkbox 9000 with an ASC1 dish mover and skew controller!
Everything is 98/98! To try to fine tune, I have run the dish back and forth, write down the #s and do the math to find the middle# !
The same with skew. I recently had to change my vertical skew to regain METV after it was lost. Others on V still came in!
What receiver are you using? LNB or LNBF?
Some receivers can be adapted to show the SNR, or DB, the right way of showing signal available.
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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 some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
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Ok the update is complete.
I have been optimizing the site the past few days... and got us here now. We are rocking now!
We are rocking now!OTHER Mini Multiswitch
I just received 6 receiver 2 port mini Multiswitch and it work great, no external power need it, and you can connect 6 receiver instead of 4 on most Mini Multiswitches... If anyone is interested in where they can get one PM me....
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Can't help but wonder if a worker overlooked checking the harness. I rarely ride a roller coaster anymore but when I do I check the harness myself pretty aggressively.
Can't imagine what the son is going through.
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Can't imagine what the son is going through.
Dad levitated and bled then fell to his death from coaster
Eyewitnesses have shared fresh details of the horrific accident that happened at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday afternoon.
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Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?
Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…
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Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?
Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…
It makes sense, however, I would want more types of restraints, so if one doesn't work, the other does ... the restraints coming over the shoulder I would have expected ... with a Seat belt as last resort.
Fwiw, I inquired with what they use on Coasters at Cedar Point, various Coasters, different restraints according to what the car and track requires ...
NONE of the Coasters at CP use THAT particular system
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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?
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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Tony as the director.
Would you rather have LaRoche ???Tony as the director.
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I bought the fixed color version of these bulbs for my store several years ago...work great and no more replacing ballast. Finally had one go out and when I went back to Amazon I saw that now they come in selectable versions so no more guess work as to what color light would do best in a certain area. They are now double OR single ended...used to be strictly one way or the other. If any of you are looking at replacing the old style 4 or 8 ft bulbs, you might want to give these a try. The 8 footers are BRIGHT. I put 5 in my shooting/target shed and you can get a decent tan if you are in there long enough.
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