"Oh, and yes, I have tried the suggestion of tipping the dish up and pulling it down."
It's NOT a matter of just "tipping the dish" Dee, you have to hold it there for a few seconds and wait for the meter to respond, maybe three to five seconds.
Dee, again I think you are skipping over steps. You said you spent "hours" messing with the lnb, but AGAIN you skipped a step. Get the dish lined up first, THEN spend a few minutes on the lnb. The fact that you have found and can return to so many satellites proves that you ARE on the arc, but you'll forever miss the channels you want until you align the dish properly.
I, for one, am glad your back. At least we can stop worrying about you and your health, and/or finding that you fell off your rickety ladder. And a step stool is much safer than an upside-down bucket any day of the week.
If you wont take advise on tweaking your dish before messing with the lnb, good luck, I hope it turns out good for you.
Photto
Oh man... I had typed up a bunch of stuff and firefox crashed and I lost it all. I hate firefox 4.

:rant: So, starting over again, this time much shorter..
Ok, bottom line. The limbs over the dishes. I think they are causing a problem, making it very difficult to get this thing set up properly.
That and we've had a few weeks of fierce winds around the clock. 20 to 30 mph winds pretty much non stop. That's not helping at all.
I got a rope from my dad and tried the red neck tree trimming method. No way.. That's an oak tree and it's way tougher than I thought it is.
I tried to climb up a ladder I have for getting on the roof. I got about half way up, maybe 9 feet or 10 feet up and I came to my senses and got right back down. NO WAY...
So I think it's time to call in a professional tree trimmer.
Also, I tried the tip the dish thing last week but I was on my iPhone and it was during the height of my frustration peak so I didn't get anywhere with it.
"Oh, and yes, I have tried the suggestion of tipping the dish up and pulling it down."
It's NOT a matter of just "tipping the dish" Dee, you have to hold it there for a few seconds and wait for the meter to respond, maybe three to five seconds.
Dee, again I think you are skipping over steps. You said you spent "hours" messing with the lnb, but AGAIN you skipped a step. Get the dish lined up first, THEN spend a few minutes on the lnb. The fact that you have found and can return to so many satellites proves that you ARE on the arc, but you'll forever miss the channels you want until you align the dish properly.
I, for one, am glad your back. At least we can stop worrying about you and your health, and/or finding that you fell off your rickety ladder. And a step stool is much safer than an upside-down bucket any day of the week.
If you wont take advise on tweaking your dish before messing with the lnb, good luck, I hope it turns out good for you.
Photto
Oh man... I had typed up a bunch of stuff and firefox crashed and I lost it all. I hate firefox 4. So, starting over again, this time much shorter..
Ok, bottom line. The limbs over the dishes. I think they are causing a problem, making it very difficult to get this thing set up properly.
That and we've had a few weeks of fierce winds around the clock. 20 to 30 mph winds pretty much non stop. That's not helping at all.
I got a rope from my dad and tried the red neck tree trimming method. No way.. That's an oak tree and it's way tougher than I thought it is.
I tried to climb up a ladder I have for getting on the roof. I got about half way up, maybe 9 feet or 10 feet up and I came to my senses and got right back down. NO WAY...
So I think it's time to call in a professional tree trimmer.
Also, I tried the tip the dish thing last week but I was on my iPhone and it was during the height of my frustration peak so I didn't get anywhere with it.
But now I have the little tv and the remote pyramid. I took it out back a while ago and tried it out and it works great! I can get a very usable picture on the little tv via the spare wire from the coolsat out to the dishes and the pyramid relays the remote control to indoors and I have 100% full and total control of the coolsat and the gbox. I can change channels, move the dish, scan, you name it. Just like I could if I were sitting indoors.
I will probably give it a go later when I wake up. My weird hours have me waking up about midnight now. Each day I wake up a little later and go to bed a little later. I have a couple of sleep disorders that really mess up my life in soooo many ways. But anyway, I will probably be out there about 2am or 3am to see what I can do with my new gadgets.
I am flustered with the fact that I have found many satellites, can go back and forth to them and get many channels, but only a limited number of channels.
I think that in addition to the tree problem, I think that the lnb is completely messed up. The mounting ring is all wonky and moves around and the lnb in the ring is wonky as well as the ring being wonky. The other thing that makes this difficult is that it's so high up in the air and I have to go up and down a scary old ladder, in the middle of the night no less.
I need to get my dad over here with his tools to cut that pole down a few feet and drill new holes in it and thread them for the bolts like he did before, just down lower.
This C-band stuff is HARD... And complicated! It's not for beginners, at all. And I'm like less than a beginner. And frustrated.
I need to do a lot more reading, you guys are posting and have posted lots of good stuff and I need to read it all then sit and contemplate it. It rarely ever goes into my brain and stick in that tiny little area called "Oh, that makes sense!".. It usually just spills out that very large hole in my head called the "WTH does that mean?" zone. It goes in for a few seconds, quickly gets lost in all that empty space and makes a quick exit.
I have so much working against me on this project. I can't think of anything I've ever tried to do that was more complicated or difficult than this C-band stuff...
