I get a steady 60-67% with the Sathawk on the 8 foot dish...a little after all the snow from last week....Blind
Me Tv Chicago is going national
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I am using the AZbox. Watched all night til I fell asleep during MASH and didnt have one breakup. 
Scott, I enjoyed the line from Charlie you had underneath your post lol... I'm sure he'll not speak highly of you and FTA in the same sentence ...He'd love to have us pay to watch ME TV and everything else we can still see for free. Maybe you should send him a Christmas card of you standing next to your big dish...second thought maybe not a good idea....Blind
I have talked with Charlie about FTA and he told me he wishes he had the time to play with it. It was true FTA which got him the into the business. He likes to tinker like we do.
Metv 2 is up with color bars. When i did a scan on the TP it came up as metv2. I am getting 76% level and a 86% quality on a pansat 2700a on an 11 foot dish using a 17k cal-amp lnb.
Keeping my fingers crossed that MEtv2 will show something...maybe a west coast feed soon? I'm not greedy lol...Blind
I don't get excited about much anymore but getting my old dish back up has been fun. I really enjoy reading all the posts and learning new stuff. After sitting and thinking about my old solid dish, it was built around 1979 when a friend of mine was still just testing the TVRO field and ended up selling them around the world. This is the best site going. Thanks guys. :up
from rumors it will actually be the feed of This TV and they'll shut the other one off
very nice pics billyboy...wish I had a dish that size
Thanks guys. Ice that old 11 foot 24 panel alum dish is pretty old. As I stated in an recent post it was made somewhere around late 78 or early 79. It is a copy of a scientific atlanta. We sold a bunch of them. We also made 13, 16 and 20 footers. It still performs well and does good at the 2 degree spacing. When it was new they were at 4 degrees but there werent many birds back then. Scott I just retro-fitted that old beast with a brand new Geo-c2 and it is working great.If you'll look close at my avatar pic, It says "84" on the photo. That picture was taken of one of our demo models at the ham fest in dayton in 1984.Thats a wild dish, I couldn't even imagine where to find a new LNB to fit that thing.
The only new channel info that I found so far is WLEP-LD channel 43 (DTV 9.1 and 9.2) which is supposed to be a RTV affiliate. They have a color bar on one channel and a old style clock on the other! :up
I have strong video on MEtv and MEtv2, but I do not have any audio. I manually entered the audio PID of 358, but still don't have audio. Can someone help me? Thanks
I have a Traxis DBS 3500, I don't know if it is AC3 capable. Is there a decoder that I can put in the audio line which will pass both AC3 and regular audio? Also, what is a good FTA receiver which will pass both AC3 and regular audio? What about the Lexium DBS 7000? Thank you for your help.
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I don't think the Traxis is AC3 capable. To decode you can use a Cyberhome Sonic Voom, or a capable home theater receiver. I have no idea what a Lexium is but an Openbox S9 will get you AC3 and regular audio, as well as DVB-S2 and HD. Lots of people here on the forum are very happy with the Openbox, including myself (I have 2 of them).
Thanks for the information. I Googled for about an hour looking for a Cyberhome Sonic Voom, but I did not find a single one. The Openbox S9, does it pass the AC3 and regular audio on the same output? I will probably upgrade my receiver since not finding a decoder. This forum is a goldmine of useful information. Again, thank you for your help
That's too bad, used to be able to pickup those Sonic Vooms for 20 bucks or less. Yes, the Openbox will output both audio types on the both output. Yes, the amount of info here is incredible, and you are quite welcome for the help.
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