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Originally Posted by Rockstar
I was under the impression skewing the entire dish, is only for hitting 2 sats at once (ie. 91/82 or 110/119) although I understand skewing the LNB, but that can't be done on this dish without some kidn of cool mod.
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If you have a motorized dish, you won't need to skew the lnb, however for a fixed dish you either need to skew the lnb, which is what you do on most of the dishes/lnbs you buy for FTA, however I'm starting to understand that you must have a dish something like a DirecTV 3 sat dish, where instead of rotating the lnb, you rotate the entire dish. Either is OK, but you have to rotate something.
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Originally Posted by Rockstar
As for the lin amp, I had virtually no signal showing at all without the amp, and again, not sure how to "Detect" 123W - whether I should be using the coolsat, or viewsat, or which one is goign to be best for alignment.
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Unless you have like 300' of coax, a line amp won't help, and will likely make things worse, and it sounded like you had short cable runs from your post. I'm not familiar with either of those receivers, but you're going to want to set the reciever on an active transponder that you know is 24/7, and get some sort of a signal meter showing.
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Originally Posted by Rockstar
Yes, I meant it's aimed "right beside 119w for Dishnet. I know I'm in the approximate area for azimuth, just not sure how to "lock on" as I mentioned, the meter made no audible tone no matter where I aimed...
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Those hand held meters should give you a tone even if the dish is aimed at the ground, or the cable not attached to the dish. IF no sound, then you probably don't have LNB power on.
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Originally Posted by Rockstar
I'll take another look at the lnb when I get home, and confirm the exact type.... then maybe somebody can confirm it's compatibility with Galaxy 10R.
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As long as it isn't an 11250 LO circular, it will probably be compatable. Ie an 11250 is what is used for Dishnet or
DTV or the NIMIQ Bell sats.
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Originally Posted by Rockstar
And, to elgemcdlf - not attemtping to talk about "hacking" I realize some signals on 10R are encrypted, just not clear on which ones are "Free" and unscrambled. So, if I understand correctly, the NOLY channels I will get on 10R are the ones that say DVB/Mpeg2 - and only those?
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I'd go by the color coding, plus you can't see anything listed as DCII (Digicipher), or NTSC. But yes, some FTA channels are listed on a transponder on which most channels are encrypted, but you can tell it's FTA by the color code.