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Old 03-12-2007, 04:47 PM
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Well I had a chance to play with this today, and although I was sure that it wasn't, it turned out that the dish got knocked out of alignment. I may have knocked it with an extension broom I use to knock snow off dishes, but I'm almost guessing that some turkeys landed on it and knocked it crooked (we've got a bunch of wild turkeys that roam the area, and there were fresh turkey tracks in the yard.... boy do turkeys have BIG FEET, the prints are about 7" long.) For some reason, I never tightened the bolts down on the DTV dish, and it doesn't take much for the whole thing to rotate on the pole.

But anyway, I nudged the aim a bit to the west, and now all the sats/polarities are up in the 90s. It's strange though that when the thing was aimed wrong, that it seemed to affect the odd transponders more than even transponders.
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