Well, we're back on the air here. Decided after church to get some more firewood, cut a dead tree and dragged it back to the yard, with the big tractor. Front loader with bale spike. The hydraulics tend to leak down on this tractor. So the bale spike nosed down into the ground while I was cutting up the wood. Who would have guessed it happened to bury itself RIGHT INTO THE SATELLITE CABLE!!!! Tried re routing through a no longer used satellite TV cable, no good. Guess that was why DirecTV quit working.... Sooooo I resorted to "Redneck engineering" Stripped the ends of the co-ax cable, twisted to inner wire together, taped it, and twisted the outer braid and taped it and VIOLA!! We're back. At least for now. Guess I need some proper cable repair stuff, or else run a whole new cable.