Dee_Ann,
Yes, it is always good policy to research every avenue first (before jumping to any conclusions). I lost all my signals the other day. I thought something was severely wrong with my new receiver. The motor would move, but I detected NO signal at all from any sats. I was double checking all my settings and all seemed fine! I was getting a bit flustered at first, since I could not find anything wrong.
I went out to examine the dish and motor (I thought the motor may have been faulted out and not moving at first). When I got out to the dish I found the RG-11 cable disconnected from the LNBF!
I humorously blamed my brother (just kidding him) for disconnecting it to mess with me. I know he didn't do that, but I had to try to give him a bad time anyway.
I don't quite understand how it came disconnected on its own, but it did. Good thing it didn't harm anything when it came loose.
I thought you might find this a bit humorous and possibly enlightening (i.e. you never know what can happen).
RADAR
LOL!!
Well, my first thought was that perhaps I hit the dish with the riding lawnmower, again. I've done that before. Or maybe that I had run over the wire with the mower and cut it or ripped it out. Done that before too.
Because it was showing no signal at all I assumed it was my doing. And then as I sat there pressing buttons on the remote, I thought that maybe they had something broken or worse, had shut down like all those channels did after that Equity thing.
(still mad about that!)I was relieved to find out that it was none of the above and just something sort of broken with them and they are working on it. Maybe someone spilled coffee in a machine?
Well, can't check on them now, I'm recording Vampire Diaries from local OTA for my BFF.
Oh, and I found some parts to hopefully get a better OTA antenna going.
One was a 2gh splitter thingie and a "transformer"
for hooking the cable to the antenna properly. I bought an HDTV from my girlfriend because her she left an abusive relationship and needed some cash to live on. She sold me a Vizio 32" tv for $300. I checked and found the going price for them is about $300-$350.
She was going to sell it at a pawn shop for $125. I stopped her in time and did the best I could to help her out.
The best part? She got $300 for the TV and still gets to enjoy it because she's staying with me now for as long as she needs to get on her feet again.
:Dumping it in a pawn shop for so cheap would have been just silly.
Now if I can just teach her how to operate this home theater stuff.
She thinks I'm some uber goddess of electronic stuff. Hahaha!!
I am soooooooo far from it... I fumble through this stuff at 1/100th the pace as you guys. I'm just too hard headed to give up. I keep at it until dumb luck smiles upon me and I accidentally make something work.
