After having my dish on IA5 all winter today I went outside and messed around with my dish a bit. I was on a mission to try picking up one of the winters most talked about satellites G10R.
I took out my sons 19 inch TV my receiver and some tools.
I was disapointed to find out that something broke in my motor over the winter, if I try moving over to the west about halfway to the west the entire arm just flops to the right. If I push it back up it clicks into place. and I am able to move it again.
But anyways I set up my receiver looking for transponder 1 of G10R and tuned the dish on the pole (I loosened it up) after about 15 minutes of finding other satellites, I finally fell on it (Actually by accident!) but now I am locked on G10R!
I scanned the satellite and was AMAZED what I found, I wateched a few shows from RTN (The Retro TV Network) this afternoon and after that I found one station which makes this all worthwild RETRO JAMS! Holy crap if I would have know this station was this good I would have went out there in the two feet of snow to find this bird!
I must admit it was kind of hard to get the RetroJam channel come in it seems like this is on the weakest transponder. I was unable to pick it up at 64 on my signal meter I had to go and just push gently on the dish to bring the signal level up to 68 and now it locks in fine with no dropouts. (The rest of the satellites signals are good from 80 to 97!)
I must say I am really kicking myself for not tuning this one in earlier!
So for now since my motor seems to have crapped out I am leaving it locked here, who knows maybe at the Satellite Expo this week I will find a deal on a new motor, but for now I am loving G10R! This is good stuff!
I took out my sons 19 inch TV my receiver and some tools.
I was disapointed to find out that something broke in my motor over the winter, if I try moving over to the west about halfway to the west the entire arm just flops to the right. If I push it back up it clicks into place. and I am able to move it again.
But anyways I set up my receiver looking for transponder 1 of G10R and tuned the dish on the pole (I loosened it up) after about 15 minutes of finding other satellites, I finally fell on it (Actually by accident!) but now I am locked on G10R!
I scanned the satellite and was AMAZED what I found, I wateched a few shows from RTN (The Retro TV Network) this afternoon and after that I found one station which makes this all worthwild RETRO JAMS! Holy crap if I would have know this station was this good I would have went out there in the two feet of snow to find this bird!
I must admit it was kind of hard to get the RetroJam channel come in it seems like this is on the weakest transponder. I was unable to pick it up at 64 on my signal meter I had to go and just push gently on the dish to bring the signal level up to 68 and now it locks in fine with no dropouts. (The rest of the satellites signals are good from 80 to 97!)
I must say I am really kicking myself for not tuning this one in earlier!
So for now since my motor seems to have crapped out I am leaving it locked here, who knows maybe at the Satellite Expo this week I will find a deal on a new motor, but for now I am loving G10R! This is good stuff!
