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    More findings to make you jealous!! Birdview!

    My pole was custom made of very thick walled steel, there are pictures on this forum somewhere that I believe Linuxman uploaded quite a few years back, I am using a tablet and it is not easy to find the link or I would post it here. My biggest problem with the Birdview was many of the signals I...
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    NEEDN UNIVERSAL REMOTE FOR TOSHOBA TRX 1800

    URC made great universal remotes for C-band receiver users, some of the older ones had custom buttons for VC functions. I have a couple of their higher end remotes and the programming software still has lots of old C-band receivers in it, even Birdviews. Harmony remotes might have codes but I...
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    More findings to make you jealous!! Birdview!

    A Birdview on a 25' pole? I would not even want to try and guess how much the pole it is on weighs, my two piece pole weighed about 450 lbs. If I am remembering correctly.
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    More findings to make you jealous!! Birdview!

    I had an 8.5' solid and thought it was undersized for many C-band feeds, my 10' mesh outperformed my Birdview as long as it was not too windy. I live in California so maybe I was not getting as much signal as the middle of the country. The Birdview mount was excellent for stability and...
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    Which signal meter should I upgrade to? Only have an analog one.

    I have the Sathero 200 also, it works really well except on the signals I need it most for. I think I will look into that Sathero 300HD.
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    4K FTA HD Receivers?

    I know what you mean buy a dark sky site, I live in the desert with slow internet but unfortunately for me my house still has lots of light pollution, I can see color on a moonless night. I can see a very faint milky way here. My brother has three houses with great conditions, one back in a...
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    83W on 90CM KU dish?

    A 90cm dish is awfully small, I played around with a C-band LNB on a 1.2 meter dish and got pretty good signal strength on some channels but it would not be good for most of the stuff up there.
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    4K FTA HD Receivers?

    I would like a SATA connector inside the receiver, recording to USB drives is OK but if I were designing the receiver it would have internal storage drive capability.
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    Raspberri Pi and Outernet

    I see Syed just posted a couple hours ago that they are going to give up on the Ku feeds, said nobody wanted to setup a dish so it wasn't commercially viable. I guess that is why they are blowing out the stock of those HDStar receivers so cheaply. They have the L-band parts available on Amazon.
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    Raspberri Pi and Outernet

    I know that Outernet shutdown the Ku feed on 113w due to poor sales of the Lighthouse in Latin American, the 97w data feed was out for awhile but it is back up last I checked. I don't know if they intend to drop all Ku band service, if they do the data stream being sent will drop from about 1Gb...
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    Raspberri Pi and Outernet

    Where did you see they were going switch from Ku to L-band? I thought they were planning to do both. Also you can buy the HDStar USB receiver for your Pi on Amazon for less than $20. The Outernet signal is still up on G19.
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    Great Article on Outernet Reception

    Saw the Reddit AMA the other day on the outernet so I decided to start my Outernet Raspberry Pi up again, I see they are sending data faster now. Posted Via The FREE SatelliteGuys Reader App!
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    Brought home a Birdview today

    I enlarged the scaler hole with a cheap sanding drum I got from Harbor Freight, I was missing a couple of the scaler support rods and used hollow tubing with a short piece of all thread pinned in each end. There are some pictures of my dish on this forum somewhere posted by I believe Linuxman...
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    Coach Tarkanian Passes

    I remember going to watch the games at Cal State Fullerton when UNLV came to town, coach Tarkanian always brought an awesome team that could beat any team in the country on most nights. He was a great coach. R.I. P. Coach Posted Via The FREE SatelliteGuys Reader App!
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    Hispasat testing 4K broadcasts to North and Central America

    I have used my 1.2m dish and TBS6925 to receive the feeds, I really like that Sigma Designs is working on a receiver, there hardware has always been great. Posted Via The FREE SatelliteGuys Reader App!
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    Outernet PI setup

    Mine came from New York, it had European style power prongs on the wall wart but adapters are cheap. Posted Via The FREE SatelliteGuys Reader App!
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    Outernet PI setup

    I believe I paid $69 direct from Hauppauge, seems to work pretty well. Posted Via The FREE SatelliteGuys Reader App!
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    Big Outernet Announcement Coming

    Looks like they will hit $100,000 dollars any minute now. Posted Via The FREE SatelliteGuys Reader App!
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    Big Outernet Announcement Coming

    I posted a link to the indiegogo site on a forum where some very wealthy people hangout, don't know if it will help but it couldn't hurt to get the word out. I might donate later but I have been hit with a ton of unexpected bills this year. I spent a ton of money rescuing 14 dogs so at least of...
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    Big Outernet Announcement Coming

    If they could get the attention of someone like Bill Gates that donates massive amounts to charity, they could really make something out of this. Posted Via The FREE SatelliteGuys Reader App!
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    HTPCs

    That what was great about SageTV, I have a bunch of Sigma Design SOC based hardware extenders that SageTV used to sell and they can play about anything you can throw at them, all with the same user interface as the main server. I also had full recording and playback control of my R5000HD modded...
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    Getting colder..What's your FTA (ICE?) bucket list" before winter?

    Winter where I live in Southern California can be very nice, like last year when we only had about 2 and half weeks worth or it can be long and cold. It can snow here anytime between October and May or it can be warm one day and cold the next. Minimum winter temps here can get as low as 0 but...
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    HTPCs

    I use the no longer available( Thanks Google )SageTV with hardware extenders and my server is in an equipment rack in a closet, I used an HTPC in the past but prefer the client server model of SageTV instead. I have used Media Portal and TVedia in the past and have played around with WMC. I want...
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    I have just got to get some of these!

    I guess I would need full sized head phones, my OTA stations are weak here. Who needs proofreaders?
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    Windows 10 - September 30 Event

    I stopped at version 7, if I need anything newer I will use Linux.