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In a couple of weeks, spring will be here. Sure, the first day of spring is here today, but the real “spring” we expect might take a little longer. It’s been a mild winter for much of the country. No matter, though — there is still work to once the remaining snows thaw and it’s safe to be up on...

I put the receiver and monitor outside and I am working on getting the one tuned in that I want

Kind of a bummer because he has a polar mount. We spoke today and there was a conversation a week or so back. The pole is not plumb in the ground. And so far he's moved the dish more like an az/el would be. So yeah. The dish has been spun on the pole and the elevation has been changed. There a...

Congratulations! You just moved into your new home. Well, it’s new to you. Rather than a new build, you chose for a home that someone else lived in. When you get there, you find a surprise: A lot of wiring’s already been done. There are a pair of wires running to the roof, plus a bunch of...

The receiver I have has a beeper and does sun and heat make it easier and what about the hook mount how do I know if it’s setup right

Oh it will be a week definitely. In that time you sound like an eager and smart dude. Let's try to get you (and your dish) steered in the right direction first. We will need to just pull that motor off the arm and put it away for the time being. 1) Make positive you have returned the dish on the...

The receiver is a gt media and the motor screw does move but with the motor betas old as it is like someone else said it probably uses a potentiometer and won’t work with newer equipment so it will probably have to be swapped out anyway even if it does work and I have heard of some guys picking...

It will be at least a week before I could get up that way. Yeah. Like Mike says we don't know how far you moved the dish from where it initially was. But there should be rust marks to put back. As for the pole not being plumb. I know the area good. Back in the day installers used post hole...

Look at the pole, right at where the mount and bolts are. They likely indented the metal when tightened up. Find those indents, (unscrew one bolt completely, and look through the hole to find the indents) and put the mount right on them, and retighten the bolts. Then, use your level and find...

You should check all of the bolts/nuts and make sure they are tight.

Thank you for the info. You were correct that my ESPN issue had nothing to do with the satellite problem. I discovered that the wind had blown a lawn chair against the dish base (it's on the ground) and it had moved a just a fraction of an inch. I gently moved the base back to its former...

I was talking to someone recently and they told me that they really didn’t understand grounding. There are a lot of resources on this blog having to do with grounding. But, when I look at them, I realize that there’s no single article that goes over the grounding in a really basic way. So, I...

Bingo. That's the reflexive greed. Nothing more to be made here, let's put it all on the now-former customer to part ways. Even though they've been locked in battle with DTV for years with dueling 2-year "free" (or $400 gift card) deals to get new or returning subs, only to then re-treat them...

I understand why Dish does this, shipping is expensive, they will no longer be getting money from the customer canceling to make it up, also I doubt $25 covers all the costs, I just shipped a box via USPS, roughly the same size box, weighing 4lbs 11oz, via Ground Advantage. Did this at USPS...

The spirit of DIY satellite television is not dead! Every day we have people call Solid Signal because they’re trying to improve their satellite TV system. Most are customers of either DIRECTV or DISH, but there are still some enthusiasts out there working with the older-style C-Band “FTA”...

I have a HH90 that seem to forget it's directions most of the time..The MIO won't move it but my meter will. I have a SG6000 that I thought was bad but clearly is not so I think I'll swap it out in place of the HH90. I have had a heck of a time doing a simple task of installing a motor here for...

Stability is the key. My neighbor has a DN dish bolted to a tree stump.When the ground freezes and the stump heaves. He's out there tweaking the mount. And then again in the spring.With the wifey shouting out across the yard "Better. No, worse, Go back a little". Imagine if he had a steerable...

I've heard a pole in concrete is best. But I've never had one. I use a short sturdy 3-foot tripod nailed into the ground with camping stakes. It is holding a 1-metre motorized dish. The tripod periodically may need to be adjusted. The arrangement can work well. Unless you can have a whole yard...

Another article that says that all these deals Dish/Echostar keep trying to do, then abandoning them when lawsuits are threaten, is just making more and more upset at them and pretty much says it will be extremely hard to get anyone else to invest in the company, from the article- Any further...

It’s the most important thing that you’re not doing. Learn what grounding is and why you should be doing it, in a simple and entertaining way. Shop Solid Signal - Signal Solutions including HDTV Antennas, DIRECTV and DISH Network satellite equipment and home entertainment supplies and...

What type of dish do you have, show me some pictures front, side, and back of the dish also did you try by-passing the coax cable with another cable, they can go bad for many reasons??? I have even seen a tree dropped near the ground where the cable went the pressure of the earth could chance...

About once every three months or so, I tend to run an article like this. I’ve called grounding “the most important thing you’re not doing” and I stand by that. Even some professional installers don’t do a good job of grounding equipment, and in the end it’s up to you. You need to make sure that...

but i dont understand what he means by that when looking at my dish from the front/side its point sort of straight out not up or down (sound odd really) urm whats right and wrong? i dont know what the lines are ment to be pointing at?.... or did u mean that my motor needs to be pointing down...

P.S The Fragile & Black tape you can see on the motor is just so 'if people decided to mess around with it they know its fragile and not to touch it' & the black tape is an extra layer to keep it water tight just in case any rain got in (shouldn't do but you never know), and the bungie cords...

there are 15 bags of stones holding the dish base down while i wait for new slabs to be delivered), i have had to move it off the concrete base temporary i made until its realigned correctly due to not being able to get round to the side of it where Screw A Is, once its fully aligned i will move...