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This is probably "old news", but the transition to AMC-21 appears to be moving ahead at full speed. Blind scan picks up : 12140/V/29997 PBS HD x 2 channels (1 is 24/7 colorbars saying "All downlinks should move to AMC-21 at 125 degrees W.L. AS SOON AS...

I recently received GeosatPro's 1.2 meter solid dish, purchased from SatelliteAV. This is my informal review. The package arrived in a *large*, *heavy* box. It was exceptionally well-packaged, and took the better part of half-an-hour to remove everything from the box. I was pleased at the...

Hi, Neither my Mercury II nor the Visionsat finds KEXP from a blind scan. (G10R 11805/H Audio PID: 114). The Merc, I just went to "Add channel" and put it in from Lyngsat, and have been enjoying it for a couple weeks now. However, I can't figure out how to do this for the Visionsat. The...

[ Language advisory: the pick of this week plays rock music, and overnight may contain profanity in some song lyrics. So if you are offended by strong language, best not listen to the overnight programming.] Most of us think of video first when we think of FTA satellite reception. Of course...

Hi, I'm wondering what size dish people are using to get 11720 on G10R. I have reason to believe my 90cm dish is under-performing and possibly slightly warped. But everything works. It just can't pull in this transponder, which is extremely marginal. It's right on the threshold of both...

EDIT: This was something from a couple months ago, but if memory serves someone recently posted on difficulty finding G10R. That triggered this post, because it was a bear for me to find G10R the first time: This tip may or may not be useful to help locate G10R. As always with free advice...

Here's the recipe: 1. Find a transponder with different audio and video channels that should NEVER be mixed under any circumstances. (Think "crossing the streams".) 2. Manually enter the audio PID for one and the video PID for the other, and mix them up! :) 3. Save and enjoy, and if...

I know that individual video and audio streams are defined by the DVB-S standard and are basically MPEG-2 (like standard definitions DVDs). OK, but each transponder typically carries multiple independent streams of audio and video on them. So somehow all the bitstreams have to merge together...

Say you have an FTA / TVRO dish that is now warped and useless. These guys have turned some dishes from FTA use to FTC ("free-to-cook") applications! :D http://www.humboldt.edu/~ccat/virtualtour/handouts/solar_cookers.pdf I dunno. I found it pretty clever and amusing. I suppose with a...

Hi, Well, I've given up with the original site I chose for dish installation. There is a tree which due to a (parallax?) error I thought was OK but was blocking Galaxy 10R. So the dish is temporarily on a tripod pointed at 10R (it and Galaxy 25 and AMC4 are my main interest.) I'm...

Has anyone found out how many genuine FTA users there are out there (perhaps a vendor?). Anyone know if it's order of 1,000, 10K, 100K, 1M? I'm guessing it's a lot like ham radio (and a fair bit of overlap?) and around 600K?

I've discovered a wealth of information off http://www.lyngsat.com and FTAList.com - The easy list of North American free-to-air TV channels, Wikipedia, and -- of course --- here! :) However, what I'm wondering as a N00B (but hopefully not a bee zero zero bee ;) is if anyone who surfs the...