You know you're a newbie when...

[rogerduncan100]

you tighten the motor bracket nuts so much that you bend the motor bracket and make the motor not level!

 

[rogerduncan100]

you have climbed up and down a ladder for more than two months adjusting your dish hundreds of times and your knees hurt!

(guys, please add your funny ones!)

 

[Anole]

. . . come here for advice, and then ignore it! -

I once told a real nice newbie to:

- get a reasonable sized dish (36-40"). He got bought a 4' for his first Ku dish but didn't upgrade his motor!
- mount it on the ground to get used to dialing in the adjustments. He mounted it to the peak of his roof.
Then due to the heat, he could only work on it in the dark of the night - doh!
- buy a reasonable starter DVB receiver. He did, but also got a 4Dtv to overcomplicate his life.

 

[FaT Air]

Tune up a fixed dish - pat myself on back for job well done - put all tools and equipment away.
Proceed to watch desired program until the wind comes up. Dish swings off of sat. DUH!
Or admire installation, while slowly walking backwards, and tripping on "fat air". BTDT
"When a person missteps and trips on a seemingly invisible object. It is theorized that the person may have actually ran afoul of a pocket of air denser than the surrounding air." Urban Dictionary

 

[rogerduncan100]

It takes you literally months of adjusting to get it the way you want it and it's still not perfect!:yikes

 

[rogerduncan100]

You wonder why the company you bought from didn't provide instructions advising you to adjust the LNB settings on the receiver to match the LNB! :rant:

 

[rogerduncan100]

You irritate everyone by posting answers to your own thread!

 

[Tron]

... When you ask whether you can use your old D* and/or E* equipment for FTA.

... When you have to ask what D* and E* mean...

... When a thread like this gets posted in the general area instead of the FTA Shack ...

 

[Skyscanner]

You know you're a noob when:
...You post that you have 90% signal but can't figure out why you don't have a picture.
...You rely on a $10 "satfiinder" meter to hit your bird.
ss

 

[rogerduncan100]

LOL!

 

[sanjap]

... When you align your dish using signal strength rather than Quality and you blindscan at highest signal but zero quality.

 

[Lak7]

Always get a bad LMB

 

[Mr Tony]

you believe what an "installer" tells you about what receiver is best out there....only to find out he sells that model (and only that brand)

 

[Dishman Dan]

...when you go cannot get things working right and you go on a rampage and whack up a perfectly good dish... a.k.a. going "techfizzle"

 

[stanleyjohn]

When you think you can tweak in your LNB c/ku alittle better and end up messing it all up because you didnt take note of the settings before you did the adjustment.

 

[sanjap]

... when you keep a print out version of "The List" from Satelliteguys...

 

[vanalex]

When you mount you nice PrimeStar dish on a tripod onto plywood in the driveway and forget to put the cinder blocks on it. Then during a thunder storm it blow into the corn field and while rolling across the stone driveway, rips the arm off the dish. No damage to Invacom LNBF though, still using it.

 

[Skyscanner]

OUCH!!!
ss

 

[Dishman Dan]

When you mount you nice PrimeStar dish on a tripod onto plywood in the driveway and forget to put the cinder blocks on it. Then during a thunder storm it blow into the corn field and while rolling across the stone driveway, rips the arm off the dish. No damage to Invacom LNBF though, still using it.

!!!...




This is a thread for noobies...

maybe we need one for boobies!!!

(blunders that is! )

We all have had our moments!

 

[Larobpra]

... when you leave the new dish motor in a box and the wife throws it out when she cleans out the porch!