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    Old Dish and Lnb and Signal Quality

    Firstly let me say thanks to everyone for the suggestions, sorry for the late reply but yesterday I had to help my girlfriend out after she'd been mugged, but she's ok now. I talked to a friend of mine and he says that LNB's have a guaranteed life of around 4-5 yrs, that true? If so, then I'd...
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    Old Dish and Lnb and Signal Quality

    Well, I did as you'd suggested, marked the current location and titled the whole dish up & down between 1cm and 5mm. On either direction, at 5mm, no change, but at 1cm, the signal quality dropped down to around 30%. However, I've just logged on and read your latest post and I see you've...
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    Old Dish and Lnb and Signal Quality

    Thanks for the advice. For the rust I think I'll just get a spray paint can and do the necessary. And it's really that bad, just that the paint has worn off and its now brown, not flaky like really bad rust. My signal strength is around 75%. When you say, "alter my elevation", I assume you mean...
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    Old Dish and Lnb and Signal Quality

    Hi, my first post :). I'm a newbie to satellite tv and I seem to be having a problem with my signal quality. I've got a plain old (6 yrs old & very rusty) 6 ft dish and multichoice dsd 660 reciever. My signal quality is around 58% and has never gone beyond that, only around 4 channels on dstv...
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