Used Satellite Dishes?
Any good sources for used satellite dishes for DirecTV? Can't justify in my mind, no more often that I'll use it, spending $600-$1,000 for a satellite dish. I have a tripod mount dish that came with...
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Patrol 65 wrote:
This is how I manually tune my Directv antenna. I set the dish antenna on the tripod and I go to the setup menu on my receiver and tune to either the no. 8 or no. 7 transponder on satellite no. 101 and maually move the dish up and down, side to side towards the location of the sat.101 and wait to hear the loudest signal strength pinging from the satellite receiver. Then I fine tune it while screwing it down to the tripod. It takes 5 to 10 minutes.
Why do,you use transponder 7 or 8? My receiver defaults to transponder 1, so I just use that. Is there a benefit to going with 7 or 8?
Bruce
