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    Retailers serving US-based hobbyists?

    I hadn't heard of HyperMegaSat, thanks for the tip! I agree, I have also ordered from Rick several times and been 100% satisfied.
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    Retailers serving US-based hobbyists?

    I didn't see anything in the rules to suggest this is verboten, but please educate me if I'm wrong. I've been out of the hobby for quite a long time, and trying to get started back up again, the retail landscape doesn't seem anything at all like how I remember it. Where is everyone buying from...
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    FREE - Technotrend 3200 PC card

    "Sold" to iceturkee :)
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    FREE - Technotrend 3200 PC card

    Technotrend TT-Budget S2-3200 tuner card. This is a conventional PCI card--desktop PC required. It will tune DVB-S2 as well as DVB-S signals but it does not have support for hardware blind scan. It was working when removed from service but I have no way to test it now. You get what you pay...
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    This will change TV again... (Live streaming)

    I'm disappointed but not surprised. You have to see the irony: when the must-carry rules were enacted in the '90s, the broadcasters hated it and sued all the way to the Supreme Court before losing. Fast forward 15 or 20 years, and now retransmission fees are such a big part of the...
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    Contest: Enter to Win an Amiko A3 Android Satellite Receiver & Media Center- Ends July 14th, 2014

    I'd love to win one no matter what, but if/when I'm buying one, it will be black.
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    Kijiji, eBay, and Craigslist dishes for you to take a look at

    They added a Craigslist listing with a picture. The dish has also mysteriously lost 4 feet of diameter.... :imconfused http://nd.craigslist.org/ele/4511211395.html
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    Kijiji, eBay, and Craigslist dishes for you to take a look at

    Free -- Williston, ND 10-foot dish Posted for a friend's family member. Not sure why there is no picture, but I was given one at one time and I could see about digging it up if there's serious interest. https://groups.freecycle.org/group/Williston_ND/posts/40503591/Satellite%20Dish
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    Nasa Tv On A 6 Foot C-band Dish?

    I get it very solid on the Sadoun 6-foot dish and Titanium C1PLL LNBF in central Iowa.
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    Discussion: Who is Interested in a C-band or Large Dish Purchase? Build and Cost?

    To answer your question directly, I agree with what another poster said earlier in the thread: No matter how good the value is, that's a lot of money to spend on very short notice. I'd like to add a couple more things to the discussion as well. I live on a quarter-acre lot in a...
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    DSR-922, suggestions for cleaing VCRS battery leakage?

    I picked up a DSR-922 on Craigslist today. I plugged it in at the guy's house and it didn't do anything, so he told me to just take it, no charge. It turned out to have a leaky battery in the VCRS that got down on the main board. It has actually started up once and ran for about a minute...
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    Need assistance from C-band FTA guys

    1. Central Iowa 2. Sadoun 6' dish; C1-PLL LNBF 3. MicroHD; Q is stable between 73-74
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    Contest: Enter to Win a Titanium Satellite C1PLL LNBF and CS1 Conical Scalar - Ends 12/16/2013 Midni

    Winter in North Dakota means playing hockey on the pond, and Christmas means no school. We would be out there as long as we could stand it. Good times.
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    DIRECTV CEO Mike White: 4K Rollout Will Be ‘Complex’

    From an enthusiast point of view, my biggest question is why should I believe 4k will amount to anything? Anybody who's into FTA and has had the privilege of seeing backhauls would say that pay TV today is bitrate starved for HD and hugely bitrate starved for SD. Why should I believe they will...
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    Troubleshooting help - HITS

    I sat outside and played around with the dish pointing for a little while. The longer I stared at the DVB muxes, I could see that the weaker ones of those were dropping out, too. I'm leaning toward saying that there's nothing wrong with the receiver. There's two main options I'm considering...
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    New Product: Titanium Satellite C1-PLL C-Band Phase Lock Loop LNBF

    I'm ready to pounce on this as soon as the moment arrives. Have any US-based resellers been announced yet?
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    Troubleshooting help - HITS

    I'll mess around with it a bit this weekend and find out. I'm not optimistic. I don't see why the HITS muxes would drop so sharply over the course of a day or two, with no change in the Q on the DVB muxes, and have it be a pointing problem. I will try, though.
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    Thinking of Removing Dielectric plate Corotor II+ Wideband

    What "parts" are you after specifically? I have an old Corotor that is sitting around doing nothing...
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    Troubleshooting help - HITS

    Good idea, will give it a shot. That's an easy one to try, and besides, nothing to lose at this point...
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    Troubleshooting help - HITS

    My wife and I have been enjoying the DSR-410 I bought this summer, but I've run into problems and I'm curious if anyone has any troubleshooting ideas. I think it isn't looking very good for the receiver, but it's at least worth asking. My system has been in good working order for several...
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    Counts per degree?

    Whoops, sorry I failed to search first. I'll go take a look. Sounds like my result is not way out of line, anyway.
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    Counts per degree?

    Is there any expected range for the number of counts per degree on your actuator? My setup is a Sadoun 6' dish/polar mount with a Venture Maxi, and I'm getting about 5 counts per degree, or about 10 counts center-to-center between satellites. This is proving to be a little bit tricky for...
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    Where to start

    One thing to add... you won't have much luck getting NFL game feeds during the regular season, but in years past there have been a tremendous number of preseason game feeds on Ku. No guarantees, of course. There are also a lot of pre-game/post-game type feeds which are kind of neat to see.
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    please read need help /advice . first timer

    31" is pretty small for a FTA dish so you might have a little bit of a challenge. A couple things come to mind... Ku reception can be really sensitive to LNBF position. For my GeoSatPro dish, the LNBF has to be all the way back in the mounting bracket or there's a severe loss of signal. You...
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    I wonder how often "C-Band" checks his e-mail?

    I was just poking around the Halogen TV website. They have a "channel locator" to find their channel on various providers. If your chosen provider doesn't have the channel, it takes you to a web form to request it. To be fair, the text is obviously boilerplate with just the provider name...