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Old October 27th, 2008   #1 (permalink)
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Question what to point at?

i have a dish 500 currently pointing to 110 and 119. i now have an extra dish 500 and a dish 300(i think, it has 1 lnb). with these to extra sats... what should i point them to?
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Old October 27th, 2008   #2 (permalink)
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Re: what to point at?

what size dish is the 300 is it same size as the 500
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Re: what to point at?

same size... i think... im not sure, i left it at my friends house after i took it down and i brought the 500. does the size limit the birds? i have a direct dish mounted that im going to take down... should i just replace the lnbs?
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Re: what to point at?

which direct dish
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Re: what to point at?

it has 3 lnb heads... looks kinda funky
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Re: what to point at?

does it look like this

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yes, it does.
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Re: what to point at?

leave the dish up and take off that lnb
and get a linear lnb and point at 123w for true fta
there are some good old stuff that comes on there and new stuff
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Re: what to point at?

also could take either the dish 300 or 500 and point to bev on 91w
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Re: what to point at?

thats galaxy 10r? is there a channel list somewhere? or should i just wait and see what goodies are on there?
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Re: what to point at?

go to lyngsat.com and you can look at it
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Re: what to point at?

if you have HD, pick up 82 while your at it. otherwise, 91 is great!
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Re: what to point at?

bev is probable not a good sat to point at right at this time do to n3 i would try different sat for now and see what happens.
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Re: what to point at?

with bev down... besides 123w... what can i point at (besides 110 and 119)?
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