Recent content by WhiteBeard

It sucks to have to throw away my C band equipment but what is one to do? As for IPTV streaming, I currently have a 500 Mb connection but 1 Gb is available if needed and my router is capable of 1Gb. I think there are newer routers available that will do more than 2 Gb. So far 500 Mb is good for...

"All in the family"

I use to be a Star Trek fan but I can't stomach the more recent series and movies.

Even after upgrading my LNBFs, I still have a lot of interference from 5G. I'm not going spend any more money on C-band.

Not many people here in the U.S. are going to buy new receivers because of 5G. I haven't been watching much C-band and I'll probably take my dishes down this summer. If there were enough services on Ku I'd put my Ku antenna back up.

HF setups definitely are expensive. Just a decent HF transceiver will set you back $1500. Then a power supply, tower, HF antenna, concrete, cabling, maybe guy wires, VHF/UHF antennas, etc could get you to $3000+. C-band satellite isn't all that cheap either.

Welcome to the "club". We don't have a morse code requirement in the U.S. anymore. I didn't get all that proficient with it but I did get to 15 WPM but then they dropped the requirement which made it easy for me to get the Extra class license. I have had a radiotelephone license since the early...

Merry Christmas.

I replaced my OEM radio that had an SXM radio built in. I kept SXM for streaming over BT to my car stereo. That has worked out fairly well but I might drop SXM because it seems that the same music is played every time I start the stream.