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  1. jimbofta

    C band Question ?

    Well...I would suggest that at least part of this puzzle is temerature-related. LNBs work more efficiently, the lower the temperature. I used to record 'banned' Beavis and Butt-head episodes on a KU feed from MTV Canada, and the best recordings were ALWAYS in the dead of winter. Ahhhhhhhh...
  2. jimbofta

    G3 woes...

    Skysurfer re: Fixed dish? Skysurfer: A good idea, to be sure...There's a lot of stuff at that end of the arc that I would LOVE to be able to check out... I could probably easily scare up something that size...now, to find a spot for it and get it painted in 'camo colors' to sneak it past...
  3. jimbofta

    G3 woes...

    Yup, I know what you mean...got to get it moved...my fingers are blue-green, but hey I got 5 more!!! Hmmm, a new thread??? 'You MIGHT be a budneck if...' I saved a couple of mesh panels for YEARS that a bowhunter was using for target practice, 'just in case I need 'em someday' in an...
  4. jimbofta

    G3 woes...

    Ha ha!!! G4, G4, GGGG4....DANG! It's COLD out here!!!! Sounds like you have multiple solutions, anyway...I had my only dish frozen BETWEEN sats for a week back in '93? when it was in the -50s...had to wait that long before it got warm enough to move again. bummer. I am about 20 mi east of...
  5. jimbofta

    G3 woes...

    Yup, you got my location correct... I've made my fair share of 'contributions' to Mystic Lake, heh heh! I didn't have problems with these channels last fall, so I'm assuming it might have been the feedhorn tweak that did me in...prolly have to go that way, since you reminded me about AC3 on...
  6. jimbofta

    G3 woes...

    Thanks, Ice! Great response. Well, G10 is out, unless I do a midnite chainsaw party on my neighbor's tree some night (heh, heh)...but W3 shouldn't be a problem... I spose I should just return the feedhorn to where it's supposed to Mbe...I did get a slight improvement on ku by moving it from...
  7. jimbofta

    G3 woes...

    Hi, all: I have a question about G3. I'm having trouble picking up the 'This TV' (formerly RTN) channels on this bird. Rarely do I get more than 5 seconds or so of uninterrupted audio/video. These channels show symptoms of a very weak signal (blocking, freezing for 10s of seconds at a time...
  8. jimbofta

    Welcome New Members! (Please Say HI here!)

    Hi, all... Thought I would stop by and introduce myself. I've been lurking on the forum for several months now, so I thought I should join in case I can provide some useful information to others... I scrounged a Big Ugly Dish (10' Unimesh) this spring and added a Motorola DSR922 and a...