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Radio shack sells the cable. I think its straight thru 9 pin serial.

The neat thing about USALS, is you can "nudge" the dish either way by cheating the satellite postion.
Example: you are trying to get 79w in and it's not just quite right. You can change the satellites positon in USALS settings to 78.9w and try for better signal (and watch the signal quality level as you do so)

I've used this trick when my dish would get windblown out of adjustment, until I could get out there to realign. I'd change my longitude/latitude in USALS till the sats would register.
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