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  1. B.J.

    An Apology to the FTA Community

    Thank you. Finally some logic. And besides the "head in the sand" and "Kool-Aid drinking" categories, don't forget the "half a brain" category. Virtually every quality forum or mailing list I have been involved with prohibits personal attacks, even if they are...
  2. B.J.

    To Fat Air

    I started out using Netscape, then switched into Mozilla, which I think was sort of the development version of Netscape (may be wrong on that), but then Mozilla seemed to then morph into both SeaMonkey and Firefox. SeaMonkey is bigger, and includes an HTML composer and communications module...
  3. B.J.

    VCT for NET1,2,3 on 89w

    I think this is correct. That's what my 4200 shows on Diag A, line 6 .
  4. B.J.

    To Fat Air

    I refuse to use IE, except for accessing our town's Hughesnet account, which won't work at all unless you use IE for some reason. I generally use SeaMonkey, or sometimes Firefox. They have a nice little pref-bar add on that allows you to quickly enable or disable things like images, JAVA...
  5. B.J.

    An Apology to the FTA Community

    Relative to the statistics that "the overwhelming opinion in the community is against the open posting of feeds", I'm curious how you came to that conclusion? By reading posts on forums that have vocal members with that opinion? I suggest that you go over to Rick's forum, and ask the...
  6. B.J.

    HD on Ku Satellites

    It's not that "there are not to many HD for the Ku side", it's mainly that the HD on the Ku side is generally not 24/7 channels, but instead it's either feeds of one kind or another or programming that temporarily goes FTA. So if you're interested in just storing a channel and expecting to go to...
  7. B.J.

    An Apology to the FTA Community

    Just wanted to add my "opinion", and that is that I consider Rick's forum a service to the hobby, and I don't believe for one second that the channels in question encrypted because of the post made over at Rick's forum. In fact, the message that immediately preceded the post suggested that the...
  8. B.J.

    To Fat Air

    Ever since the downgrade to this new forum look, adds have been popping up making it impossible to read or access portions of the screen for me too. My workaround is to just turn off javascript when using this forum. The adds don't pop up then, and the load time for pages improves by a factor...
  9. B.J.

    How do you measure a Ku motor to see if it's level?

    Re U-bolts, my NEW DMSI version had U-bolts that were spread out so much that the ends were about 3/4" wider than at the middle. I had to bend them to get them to either go into the bracket or to be able to tighten the nuts on the other end, because it flared out so much that the didn't even...
  10. B.J.

    IP over DVB

    Relative to the frame rates, that may or may not be true if you're referring to real time IP/DVB, but the file mode IP/DVB stuff I've seen was pretty much all ~30 fps, and was very good quality. So I think it's pretty much a question of the source, just like with any regular TS video. Like...
  11. B.J.

    NOAAport help

    I don't think anyone was trying to say that the Twinhan S/Q bars won't change with tuning changes to the dish/polarity, etc. It's just that the S/Q bars on ANY consumer DVB receiver are only relative, and have no absolute meaning. Ie you can't look at the reading you get on the Twinhan and...
  12. B.J.

    How do you measure a Ku motor to see if it's level?

    This refreshes my annoyance with the NEW SG2100 that I just bought, compared with my OLD SG2100. With my OLD SG2100, the bracket is a very solid piece of metal, and all the surfaces were square. On several occasions, when I had the motor in the house, I just set the motor on a level table...
  13. B.J.

    PVR Can Record in SD But NOT HD - is there a Fix for this?

    People say that the limitation is bitrates over ~ 20Mbps, but I'm not sure how universal this is. I'm guessing that it depends a bit on the hard drive used, and the format of the video. I have ALMOST gotten some video to playback which had bitrates up close to 25 MBps, but other times had...
  14. B.J.

    FTA Dish vs Trees

    Well if you had asked this 3 or 4 weeks ago, the best answer would have been to use the sun, at the time when AMC21 was undergoing a solar outage. Now, however, the sun will be considerably lower than where the sats are, but you can still use the sun for the azimuth, and use a digital level or...
  15. B.J.

    Infocypher.....

    I'm pretty sure that the digital service on TBS was a teletext signal. I had (maybe still have) one of those receivers, ie one of those kit things, and I'm pretty sure that TBS was one of the 2 or 3 channels that had teletext. It was pretty slow. I can't remember how it worked, perhaps...
  16. B.J.

    How do you measure a Ku motor to see if it's level?

    Perhaps not, but it's answering what I thought it was really asking. If the question is literally how to make sure it's level, then the answer is that you don't WANT it level. What I described gets the motor at the proper orientation in the north/south plane. Yes, you also need it to be...
  17. B.J.

    Infocypher.....

    What I remember was way before there were any digicipher receivers, I think it was for the VCII receivers. The VCII receivers had a data port on the back that was supposed to be used with an external box, which I think was the Infocipher thing you mention. When I bought my first VCII, I looked...
  18. B.J.

    Indian Programming

    There WAS an Indian channel (I forget the name) on one of the DN sats that was FTA for a couple years, however it went away a few months ago. At first I had it labeled as a cooking channel, because the first couple of times I tuned it in, it had some Indian cooking show on, but it was...
  19. B.J.

    How do you measure a Ku motor to see if it's level?

    The method I have used quite sucessfully of late, is to forget about using the scale on the motor, and forget about trying to find some flat surface on the motor to use an inclinometer on, and, as hinted at in the post by Adrian above, ie before the dish goes on, put the inclinometer on the bent...
  20. B.J.

    Another WEIRD problem.

    Well, I was just about to re-open my FIRST wierd failure post, because I just had another one today. I have to think that in some way this multitude of problems I've run into in the past month or so have to be related. But first to this response... I do prefer, when possible to have the...
  21. B.J.

    NOAAport help

    The signal strength and quality readings on DVB receivers don't have any absolute meaning. It seems like every receiver manufacturer measures them differently, and they even differ on the same receiver with different firmware versions. So it is futile to try to understand the quality...
  22. B.J.

    AMC-1 C-band program switching/ receiving problem

    Is your 4DTV turned off by chance? IRDs like the 4DTV, if they have a VCII installed, will tend to cycle through channels looking for an active VCII channel, changing polarity, when you turn them off via the remote (they're still on relative to LNB power, etc, just the display goes off). Only...
  23. B.J.

    SG2100..... Digipower vs DMSI?

    The only thing that is clear to me at this point is that there is basically no way to tell what it is that you are buying, and if it's true for the 2100, there's no reason that it would be any different for other models.
  24. B.J.

    MT PBS switch to S2

    What about the 5 or 6 S2 transponders on AMC21 that have 30000 SR? Of those 5 or 6 transponders, one comes in real strong, one comes in occasionally , but weak, and I don't get a hint on the other ones. I really get the impression that some of the footprints on the AMC21 transponders are a...
  25. B.J.

    AMC-1 C-band program switching/ receiving problem

    ?? "PBS, Deutsche Welle, California Station" are all vertical. "ION" is horizontal. Ie, not all the same polarity. Or am I missing something (just going by Lyngsat, not on that sat right now.)