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    Solid Dish Vs Mesh Dish

    In the caribbean, just on the edge of the footprint for DirecTV. Normally the reception is O.K. but as soon as the weather get's iffy, the picture breaks up. Thanks
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    Solid Dish Vs Mesh Dish

    I am using a 1.8 mtr offset solid dish, KU band LNB but as I'm at the edge of the footprint, the reception can be marginal in poor weather. I also have the option to use a 3mtr mesh dish which can be fitted with a KU band LNB. Is there any advantage in using the large dish even though it's mesh...
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    too much advertising and comercial breaks on the sky channels!?

    Sky might be bad, but it's nothing compared to "Direct TV" from the USA. More breaks than a Kit-Kat factory. What makes it worse is that they show "BBC America" in their line up, jeez Gordon Ramsay must be raking it in with the amount of times his shows are repeated, each episode on at least 6...
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    MR Help Nagrivision

    Try setting the "Auto Update Blocker" to Off. Cheers
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    Echostar Gregorian dish positioner problem

    I had a problem a while back with my positioner getting confused as to where the dish was. At the time I was using plain and thin 2 core cable for the motor and the same for the sensor, similar stuff to speaker cable. It turned out that the sensor cable was picking up interference from the motor...
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