Recent content by arlo

I use Thunderbird. Works for me.Has forever. Everyone else at work used Outlook. An email server my give you some or as much account control on their end as they wish. A hill of beans if you associate your local email client with one. I like being able to use T-bird offline or searching for...

I agree on that. But some people at the place lived on it. Some actually used it as a defacto standard. For a time the billing dept. used Excel solely for customer tracking and billing purposes with all of the garbage formulas and macros that made no sense to me at all. Until one day a peddler...

Water works well for an explanation. Although you cannot send one electron down a wire and get the exact same one out the other end. You know. Like flushing the commode! Ohms is pretty easy if you equate it to kinking a garden hose. If no water flows, you have the same pressure (voltage) at the...

To TheForce. I would be interested in knowing the applications that you believe won't work under 11. The migration from XP to 7-8, etc.certainly did kill a lot of peripherals that worked just fine. Graphics cards, BT dongles, USB card readers. My Radeon All in Wonder tuner/GPU card. I'm sure a...

Trust The Antenna Guy's experience. Height plus position is important. Just a few feet left or right can make a noticeable difference in reception strength. Especially in hilly locations.

I believe this to be accurate. In theory since the separation in degrees of each lnbf, would work for other satellites spaced by the same amount. Edit: And why peaking signal for the center lnbf and then tweaking the skew angle would help get max. signal for the outer ones.

For me. It's now entirely a digital angle gauge. For me anyhow. A Klein Tools from HD. Great for setting up elevation and declination angles and the tweaks needed to get a dish tracking correctly. A bit jealous now because mine reads to 0.1 degree. My circle dirt friends have one the same size...

Looking for a few tips here. Again! And oh, I searched. Rummaging through the box of LNB's I found a few matching ones. LNA's, LNB's, downconverters. I guess they were good because they mostly have Sharpie check marks on them. Free is free, right? Anyway. I wrote a few model numbers from...

kicad is a good one. A bit of a learning curve. Cad models are downloadable from Mouser and Newark, although libraries are out there if you search. Drawing simple circuit diagrams is pretty simple. From design to production. And it's free!

At times a bit laggy opening the page. And delays opening posts. If this server is in the CONUS maybe block that whole region.

I use Polyphasers also. I would bet if you look at the pc boards of almost every device out there that has a port for external cabling. You will find TVS voltage clamps. So. Although you may not use them, any voltage spike above 6-7 volts gets routed straight to the ground plane. Before they...

Why. Why is this needed. A statement. Self proclaimed 'engineers' on a soap box irk everyone. On the bright side, there are brushup courses. No. Really! They even bring out a bit of a positive outlook on folks. Lot's of words, little proof. Like a lecture with no lab. Where's the fun in that...

Man. Sometimes it's like you need and extra few sheets of charmin on top after the tank is full again before pushing the handle. Looking at Amazon ring chow ping from Shenzhen UPS's? "Ones worth having". A look at the little pictures or one step deeper at the user guide. If you need it and it's...

Pardon me. Most UPS's WORTH owning. Better? Surge suppressor....not surge preventer or arrestor.

Wiring carried in EMT, various conduits are commonly THHN stranded. And contains ground that is green in color. Follow the NEC and local codes and you'll be kosher. As far as coax grounding goes. There are grounding blocks and surge suppression devices. Heck. Most UPS have coax in/out provisions...