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goaliebob99
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Last reply · posted in Free To Air (FTA) Discussion
hey now that i have bagged a few birds on the arch.. I have noticed when im moving that the birds will be a degree off on the elevation side.. for instance... when I move from hot bird to arab sat the elevation will be off one degree causing it just enough not to lock in the sat. when I move it in the middle I go from having great signal on one bird and none on the other.. to sh!tty signal on both birds.. what gives and what am I doing wrong here?? The elevation bracket on the motor is off on both sides.. the right side seems to have a higher elevation than the left. Is that what could be wrong? wich side on the motor do I use? Other than that is been really intresting experiance trying to bagg some american tv that is fta :) I did figure one thing out.. There will be no bbc for me as Austra, the bird bbc is on.. bbc is on spot beamed to europe.... Dammm bastards.. I havent yet tryed to bag in any other sats.. im going to do that here in a bit and see what happens ;)
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his signature kinda gives it away
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He's in Iraq.

Bob..I know you mentioned that you dont have a true south...did you use USALS to move the dish first before aiming? 2 degrees is a lot. Put the dish/motor back at zero and set up USALS. MOve dish first then aim at your closest satellite
goaliebob99
iceburg short answer yes.. i did..

long answer :)


this is what i did...being that I didnt have a true south... I moved the motor to zero.. entered my lnch and lat in the reciver.. moved usals to a bird that i knew was hot.. (hot bird :D) positioned the motor using usuals to the position that hot bird is suppost to be at on my motor.. and pointed from there on to the bird... that got me onto the arch.. but when I move from bird to bird there is a diffrence in elevation by one to two degrees.. my problem is that many of the birds listed on lyngsat is spotbeamed to europe only so it does me no good to point there way as im too far out of the spot beam. Im actually racking my brains on this one as once i pointed to hotbird with the usals motor moved to its degree that hot bird is suppost to be at (if i had origionally pointed to true south and moved it to hotbird) i should thereticolly be on the arch as I am.. but i cant understand nore explain why i loose elevation when I move the dish causing for the loss of the left or right birds or really great signal on hotbird.
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are you sure it's elevation that's off, or is it azimuth?... or is it maybe that the pole isn't 100% plumb? If it's just that it's 1 or 2 off it azimuth, changing location in the receiver's usals or 1.2 to match could help - for instance on my dish, wind or some birds or something knocked me out of alignment, so now stuff like 123 is actually 121.5, and the rest of the arc is about 1.5 degrees off too - enough to be annoying, but not enough to lose signals and want me to manually adjust stuff by hand since every time I do that I seem to lose the arc a little til I spend half a day redoing it all. Right now, I'm getting 60 percent on weaker tps and 99% on decent tps that are on pretty weak signal'd birds, so I really don't want to screw things up by hand. Instead I just adjust the usals, changing the nubmers to match the 1.5 degree difference on all birds. Probably not the "best" solution, but given that I spent a whole couple of 2 day weekend a month or two back getting it all just right, I really, really, really don't want to screw up the stuff by manually adjusting the dish to thow it off of the arc.

If it's elevation that's off on east/west parts of arc, check your pole.. make darn sure it's plumb.
goaliebob99
yea its the elevation.. I dont have a bubble level here to make sure its plumb.. So I have to eye it.. in the next couple of days im going to see if there is some one here who has a bubble level... I think im going to completly tear down the setup and redue it.
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if you can't find someone with a level, I read online that you can make a level yourself using some sort of a cup or something that's flat on the bottom like that, and mark the insides with rings, measuring up and down... a glass measuring cup would be ideal since it's got the markings for you already, but you could probably make one by using a glass or some other clear cup or bowl, and marking it with marker, or some wax of some sort, or something after measuring up/down the edge with a ruler... fill it with water up to where the ring is, and then just sort of eye it to make sure the water is level with the rings on all 4 sides... wouldn't have to be rings all the way around, just some marks that are something equal all the way up/down... like 1 inch from the top, on all 4 sides or whatever... and make sure the water is level all the way across those rings.

Can't find a ruler - maybe use some of the markings on the dish and/or motor as a sort of temporary ruler, and mark the places on the dish or cup using that... if nothing else, just use a string or something as a ruler... main concern is that all the markings are exactly the same height.
TheForce
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Apple Fall Hardware Event takes place today, September 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET. It marks the debut of new CEO John Ternus and the expected reveal of Apple's first foldable phone.
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Can't remember if I've posted this yet..


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If you ponied up for an iPhone Duo, keep it away from anything other than your soft, fleshy fingertips. No fingernails, no dust, sand, dirt, or other particulate matter. And don't bend it more than it needs to. Zack has destroyed $2,000 of Apple hardware to get those views, which should cover his expenses.
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No fingernails, no dust, sand, dirt, or other particulate matter

And definitely no medieval chain armor!
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medieval chain armor
Aka "mail" or "maille".
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IFixIt has published their Teardown and they had some positive things to say about the iPhone Duo. It still showed some dust ingress into the hinge assembly but seemed otherwise well-sealed.
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dishstaller
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Don't know if any of you have watched this series yet, it would be interesting to see if you feel this review was accurate. It was very humorous to listen to however.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tsDO3y8I2c
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KAB
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What a "pile of slop" review! I liked the show.
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What a "pile of slop" review! I liked the show.
If the review is like the article, oi! Eighteen paragraphs into the review and... all they've done is not really talk at all about the actual thing they are reviewing.

Halfway into the "written" review, I know more about how the writer "thinks" than I do about what they are writing about. I understand their politics, their self-overestimated understanding of film, their inability to be funny.

Takes about 22 paragraphs to get to one that starts "Anyway, the story kicks off...". Talk about Slop! 😂
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Season 2 order already in hand:

'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2, Tatiana Maslany to Guest Star in Season 1

I've not been optimistic about this show based on what I've read so far. Seems to be aimed at a younger audience. Interesting though that Tatiana Maslany will have some sort of role.
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I'm sure I will watch at least the first episode but I am not optimistic.
Here i am over a year later and just finished season 1. Not great but not as bad as I was expecting. Did not care for the barefoot captain stuff but overall ok. Actually looking forward to see what they did for season 2.
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Here i am over a year later and just finished season 1. Not great but not as bad as I was expecting. Did not care for the barefoot captain stuff but overall ok. Actually looking forward to see what they did for season 2.
Yeah, the foot stuff was just nasty. I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less. Funny, I love being shoe less at home and never wear shoes indoors in my home for long, but seeing her laying on all her furniture with her bare feet hanging out just kind of grossed me out.
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I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less.
Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?
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MikeD-C05
Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?
There would still be dirt ,dust in the future I am sure. So walking around the station like she did she would get stuff on her feet. I am sure the robot vacuum is still going to miss stuff, with all those different alien species running around there.
harshness
There would still be dirt ,dust in the future I am sure.
Where is it going to come from -- specifically?

Why do you think cleaning technology won't improve in the next few hundred years? HEPA filtration was invented as part of the Manhattan Project.
MikeD-C05
Where is it going to come from -- specifically?

Why do you think cleaning technology won't improve in the next few hundred years? HEPA filtration was invented as part of the Manhattan Project.
I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that. ;)
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I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that. ;)
Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though :clapping
MikeD-C05
Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though :clapping
Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.
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Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.
You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ... :biggrin
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Well, look at the way she sat in the Captain's Chair. I didn't say the show should have been called "Captain Chair-Whore" for nothing...
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Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.
star trek GIF by HULU


Just sayin...
MikeD-C05
You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ... :biggrin
For a whole generation of adults it was in the 1960s and 1970s.

All In The Family Nostalgia GIF by Sony Pictures Television
All In The Family Singing GIF by Sony Pictures Television
harshness
Females wearing any clothing is unthinkable on Ferenginar.
long_time_Dish
Females wearing any clothing is unthinkable on Ferenginar.
Was never a huge of the Ferengi-centric episodes in Trek...
Scott Greczkowski
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

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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Gondoliers, Shakespeares, Overseers, Playboys and Bums - Norman Greenbaum
Bobby
I Wish I Was Eighteen Again - George Burns
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I Wish - Stevie Wonder
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Lonesome Road -- The Wonder Who?
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Lonesome Loser - Little River Band