Hi all, the signal quality on my BUD has been getting worse over the past two weeks or so and it got to the point I could not pick up anything. Going off a hunch, I wanted to take a close look at the feed horn and probe but my BUD is mounted above the roof and I can not easily look inside so I came up with the idea of using my digital SLR camera with it's self timer to take a picture by mounting it on the end of my tripod then using the tripod like a long stick to place the camera under the feed. It was a little tricky guessing on the focus but I got a couple of sharp enough pictures to figure out what was wrong. There was a darn wasp nest (mud) inside the feed! Made a simple tool by duct taping a piece of bailing wire to a piece of PVC pipe and gently scraped out the mud and dirt. Sure was a lot easier then trying to directly access the feed. Now the dish is back working as good as ever. Perhaps I should try to come up with the cover that is suppose to go on the end of the feed. Later, DC
