SNH031 tring for nasa channel

[glen4cindy]

Wow. I guess they are smarter than I thought! I never looked at it like that before.

[elgemcdlf]

Originally Posted by glen4cindy

Wow. I guess they are smarter than I thought! I never looked at it like that before.

If you can manage to find the post Bill has a big dish mounted to the top of a tree. Literally mounted on top of a cut off tree using the tree as a post. He posted a pic of his famous tree dish. He also had a log dish at one time but I think that has since been mounted on a pole.

[rainman]

Originally Posted by elgemcdlf

If you can manage to find the post Bill has a big dish mounted to the top of a tree. Literally mounted on top of a cut off tree using the tree as a post. He posted a pic of his famous tree dish. He also had a log dish at one time but I think that has since been mounted on a pole.

Steve I think the log dish was use to help pull is dish back up when his motor wasn't working quite right.

[wejones]

Originally Posted by rainman

Steve I think the log dish was use to help pull is dish back up when his motor wasn't working quite right.

Actually the "log dish" was just a temporary mount while I was trying to decide where to dig a hole. Worked pretty well.

I'd probably eventually run into problems with mY dish on a tree, however, because it was a very young tree and I cut the whole top off it. Trees that small tend to follow the sun a bit and bend if they are still growing. My dish wouldn't go UP or anything, but the whole tree might tilt. I did the same thing once with a martin house (bird appartment house), that I mounted right on top of a small tree like that. After a few years, it eventually tilted over quite a bit, I THINK because the bark was still growing more on the sunlit side than on the shaded side, but I might be wrong.
I haven't actually used my tree dish for more than a year. I actually pulled the COAX off it to go to my new 90CM dish. However I noticed that during the sun outages, that the shadow of the feed was still going across the center of the dish, so it hasn't moved too much in a year. That dish is all warped, and doesn't seem to work well for Ku. I was hoping to use my mirror technique to see if I could bend it back into shape, but I was too busy. Guess I'll have to wait till spring, unless my wife remembers that I promised to throw that dish away.

[rleehamn]

Being close to 'the river' this river anyways it's a hit and miss at hitting rock.

Anyway I got my Invacom QPH-031 and now I think I got operator problems.
I hooked it up to the swicth as shown.
Turned stb back on. Got some channels and some was black screen.
Went in meny of MercII told it that I had switch. (Tried different options)
Didn't seem to make much difference.
So did blind scan to a certain sat. and came up with duplicate channels, the second set of channels, showed the actual channel with as had to delete the old channel.
Tried a different sat and this time, I deleted all channels on my list for that bird then did blind search. Got my channels no problems.
Now on some sats that I do a blind search I got less channels. G10 I believe is one of the birds that only came up with 4 channels.
(I think the switch that I got from sadoun.net is 2-way 2 in-1 out 22khz multi-switch, I'm at work, but did as instr. said to.)


Ok, what am I doing wrong?

thanks
rleehamn