I just checked and my last post to the site was almost ten years ago. In 2010 I setup a motorized dish and GeoSatPro 200 receiver for the first time. I used it heavily for a couple years, but once my kids came along time, and extra money quickly disappeared. Once the kids were a bit older around 2016 I started using it again, but found alot of the signals had shifted over to HD, and over the years it became more and more difficult to find anything interesting. But now the kids are older, and equipment prices have come way down, so I decided to get my old dish and HH motor working again. A few observations.
#1 I bought the 280 HH motor from Sadoun in 2010, and what a good piece of kit. I had not moved the dish in 3 years, and it is still right on.
#2 I did need to change the LNB. I had a standard 10750 LNB and replaced that with a Universal LNB shortly thereafter. Fortunately I still had the old 10750 in a box, as the signals were weak off the Universal, but peaked right up once I replaced it.
#3 Holy cow have things gotten easier. I treated myself to the GTMedia V8 Meter and holy crap is that awesome. It took a while to locate all the settings, but my dish is up on a flat porch roof to see over trees and to not have to haul a receiver, TV, and power onto the roof was awesome. The meter has a little built in TV so you have all the diagnostic functions, and can see the channel you are tuning. Brilliant!
#4 I bought a GTMedia V7 S2X receiver, which seems to work well, but I did not realize is not set up for America out of the box. Fortunately the PAL signal came in clear enough to change to NTSC, and then I hooked up the HDMI anyway. I have to manually enter the transponders which is fine for sats where I want certain channels, but a little more difficult for sats like G17 where I want all of the transponders to blind scan for news feeds. Anyone know of a work around for this?
At any rate I was pleasantly surprised to see there is still ALOT lurking up there on FTA and I look forward to getting active in the hobby again. There is a 6-foot C-band dish I can have for free to add to the dish farm, but I need to convince my wife to let me put it up.
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#1 I bought the 280 HH motor from Sadoun in 2010, and what a good piece of kit. I had not moved the dish in 3 years, and it is still right on.
#2 I did need to change the LNB. I had a standard 10750 LNB and replaced that with a Universal LNB shortly thereafter. Fortunately I still had the old 10750 in a box, as the signals were weak off the Universal, but peaked right up once I replaced it.
#3 Holy cow have things gotten easier. I treated myself to the GTMedia V8 Meter and holy crap is that awesome. It took a while to locate all the settings, but my dish is up on a flat porch roof to see over trees and to not have to haul a receiver, TV, and power onto the roof was awesome. The meter has a little built in TV so you have all the diagnostic functions, and can see the channel you are tuning. Brilliant!
#4 I bought a GTMedia V7 S2X receiver, which seems to work well, but I did not realize is not set up for America out of the box. Fortunately the PAL signal came in clear enough to change to NTSC, and then I hooked up the HDMI anyway. I have to manually enter the transponders which is fine for sats where I want certain channels, but a little more difficult for sats like G17 where I want all of the transponders to blind scan for news feeds. Anyone know of a work around for this?
At any rate I was pleasantly surprised to see there is still ALOT lurking up there on FTA and I look forward to getting active in the hobby again. There is a 6-foot C-band dish I can have for free to add to the dish farm, but I need to convince my wife to let me put it up.
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