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Originally Posted by mobrules
Apologies to darkman whom I accidentally sent a pm.I need help setting this thing up.waste of money so far.but I have learned alot the last couple days.I can get a signal but no channels.my dish is a directv 3 lnb oval shaped dish.its pointed at 101-110-and 119.I unplugged one set top box and connected to my starbox.am I on the right track or not
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I agree with the other responses, but taking you at your word that you're looking for FTA signals, if you just plug into the
DTV coax like you said, you will generally be connected only to the 101 sat. While the 101 sat can be locked with some other FTA receivers, the Starbox will not work with it. So to get FTA with the Starbox, you need to tell the DTV switches to switch to the 110/119 sats. You do this by turning on the 22KHz setting on your Starbox.
Once you've done this, you should have access to both the 119 and 110 sats, however, again, with the Starbox, you won't be able to tune the DTV sats, but you can tune the Dishnet sats. As Rainman said, there are a couple FTA signals there. I think that NASA is FTA on 119,
see {
EchoStar 7 at 119.0°W - LyngSat } and GOL is FTA on 110, ie
{
EchoStar 8 at 110.0°W - LyngSat } . Check Lyngsat for the transponder freqs.
I talked a bit more about using the 22khz thing in another thread a while back, ie:
http://www.sadoun.net/forums/directv...-receiver.html