Recent content by Brct203

Not always FTA though. While there are a lot of FTA channels in Europe, the majority of the Satellite broadcasts are encrypted and require either a subscription, or an other form of access control (for example, a decoder that is only available to residents of a specific country). The big...

no the bias-T is only needed if you use it with receiving equipment that does not have the ability to inject power (like when I use my SDR)

oh i would have loved to see France2 UHD!

I'm also thinking that might be the case. Kinda reminds me of the problem I had with my Edision OSmio Plus a few years ago. It would boot up, I would get the logo but then black screen. I eventually found that if I navigated to the video mode menu and just changed anything, it would usually...

that's weird, I have not had any problem, with my Amiko miniHDre or with my Edision MIO receivers.

Right now 8.2 dB now that I think of it, I have that dish connected through a multiswitch and then a diseqc 1.1. I wonder if that has much impact on my reception quality

Hey iBoston, did you notice a degradation of signal quality since the days of my LNBF review? If I remember correctly I was getting up to 12 dB on the France24 transponder, but these days, with the same Inverto LNBF I get at most 10 dB (that's on a 90cm FortecStar, so a bit smaller than your...

Are you sure? What I'm seeing on TVROSat is an update today saying that NBC on 4020 H 30000 is removed

i receive it on a 90cm in western Connecticut. The reception is not as good as it used to be, but still ok, with not a lot of margin for rain fade though. As mentionned by Keith, 11100V is more difficult As a francophone, i'm mostly interested in receiving FranceInfoTV and France 24, as well...

seems to be working fine on my TNAP6 (OSMIO4K)

what if there's a big storm that topples the dish and the mountain with it? :)

any chance it displays the subtitles on OTA and north-american satellite channels?

i think you are correct if the LNB(F) is properly filtered for 4.5-4.8, but if it's a wideband LNB that covers 3.7 to 4.8 (intentionaly or not), then its reception could still get affected by the current 5G even at frequencies above 4.5

yes but those are usually still filtered for 3700-4200 and are one-cable stacked LNBFs where the 5750 LO translate one polarity of 3700-4200 to 1550-2050, so not readily suitable for 4500-4800 reception There used to be one vendor in Brazil that had a 4.5-4.8 LNBF but i'm not finding it right now

worth noting that Hispasat 30W6 also has capability in the 4.5-4.8 range, but i'm not aware of any TV/radio activity there, not even any data transponder (as PortalBSD would usually also reports those). There's also one of the Amazonas at 61W but again, not sure that there's any actual activity...