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A campground customer of mine where I maintained the free-to-guest SMATV needs ESPN for its Conference Center public viewing room to make the World Cup on ESPN available to his Conference Center visitors. The owner recently got brazen and dropped ESPN from his free-to-guest lineup a few months...

No chance any switch failure could cause this. Each receiver consistently elects the same channel (360 on one, 642 on the other) every time, and since the receivers were used in a sportsbar, it had to have had one receiver dedicated to 642. Someone in another forum has said that there might...

A DirecTV commercial dealer who has every category of dealership gave me a few old D11-100s that had been in a sportsbar analog modulated headend. It was my intention to use them for SMATV also. I'm having problems with two of them. One that I set for CNN 202 keeps switching itself to Fox...

I remember back in the early 1990s when NBC was dropping its Saturday afternoon Major League Baseball Game of the Week, a friend of mine who had watched it religiously in the 1960s was apopleptic and wanted to start a letter writing campaign in protest. He did not realized that his own local...

I still think "Times Warner Cable" when I see TWC

I sent out notifications to half a dozen hotels where I maintain the DirecTV headends, advising them on what to tell any guests who might complain. So far, I have not received a single response or acknowledgement from any of those hotels

I am surely the only person here who nearly electrocuted himself in the ceiling of the old British Embassy and may have described the experience in more detail here years ago, when my recollections were more precise, so any links to references in any of my contemporary posts on grounding would...

Compliance with the model NEC is of no legal force by itself, but can be of evidentiary value to prove that a defendant used reasonable care in attempting to mitigate fire and safety hazards. To be evidence at trial, it would have to be presented by an expert witness. But noncompliance is not...

The term "National Electrical Code" is a misnomer, since it is only a model code. It has no legal force whatsoever, beyond what it is given by jurisdictions that adopt it, in whole or in part.

If the current, proposed 2014 NEC is kept in its present form and adopted, satellite dishes smaller in diameter than 3 feet and off-air antennas less than 3 feet wide will not have to have their masts grounded. I consider the latter exclusion to be remarkable, because a channel 7-51 antenna...

According to the 2011 NEC and all previous versions in the DBS satellite era, the antenna MAST must be grounded to an 8 foot ground rod, which in turn must be bonded to the building's ground electrode system, so technically, piggybacking off the coax outer conductor ground does not meet any...

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I once was working in, I think, a Hindi Temple (actually, I don't know for sure what it was because all the signs were written in their alphabet) where everyone is required, by the religious practices, to take his shoes off, and I had to work on an indoor rung ladder, but my feet simply could...

You can rent a 40' ladder if the private installer needs one but doesn't have one. But you better hope he knows how to use a 40' ladder. The trick is to put the base where the wall meets the ground and then walk it up and them walk the bottom away from the wall, and do the reverse to take it...

Back when interference with wireless devices was analog, we could see or hear it. We could hear the pilots talking to the tower, or the Pizza delivery dispatcher, or see the double video image being broadcast by a neighbor who had improperly coupled his cable TV with his off-air antenna, but...

There are three blocking terminators commonly used in the markets I service. The most common is the Gilbert which has been alluded to above and is removed with an inexpensive tool that has two spring-loaded tabs. The next most common are the stubby gold ones with knurled bodies. This tool...

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I'd like for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear my position on the constitutionality of a number of matters, and they might like to accommodate me if they had the time, but they don't.

If this does what I think it does, it could take a big bite out of the cost of your project. Foxcom AL5R Fiber Optic Receiver 5 X 5 NEW IN BOX - eBay (item 150477458686 end time Sep-06-10 19:46:12 PDT) And here is a single transmitter from the same seller...

It would theoretically work, but looking at the picture of the LNB that is made for that dish, its escutchionor flange that fits into the feedhorn support arm looks to be shaped differently, so you'd have to jury rig its installation. You would be much better off using the LNB designed for that...

It would cost you a lot less to put a 4' dish indoors, behind glass or plexi, and see how much signal it can develop. I don't see what you mean by having "the SWM Switch take care of the traffic handling". It gets its instructions from the signals sent from each receiver up the coax at 2.3...

DirecTV uses over 5GHz of bandwidth, broadcast from multiple satellites operating at different frequencies. You can't fit them all into one fiber. Their "old" system, with four-output LNBs, breaks them into four bands of 250 to 2150 Mhz. From there, a customer could either connect a single...

I don't know what a TX is. The SWM system sends a return signal from each receiver to the SWM LNB that is at 2.3 MHz. You'd have to have two way fiber communication and it would have to be diplexed somehow. Why does this have to be fiber? I've distributed stacked, 950 to 2025 MHz signals...

The biggest obstacle to making such a do-it-yourself antenna combiner set-up is that DirecTV splits the Ka band, frequency-shifting half of it to frequencies 700 MHz below the L-band, and the other half to 700 MHz above the L-band section most commonly used by DBS satellite. You could...

How is DirecTv planning to make this additional Ka bandwidth available in L-Band? While I'm sure that their existing receivers can tune from 250 to 2150 MHz internally when the 101 degres slot is selected, I don't see where they could place these bands for multiple dwelling unit distribution...