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    Have some pics of the new dish called Fridea.

    I may be wrong but that looks like a 1.2 meter dish but your lnb is more suited for a 1 meter dish. If you can find one of those older lnbs with the more defined feedhorn, I suspect you will get more signal out of that dish.
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    A new DVB-S2 receiver similar in concept to a HDHomeRun?

    I am not a Linux person....yet. But recompiling makes sense. I will have to learn Linux for the new server so I might as well tweek the MOI once I have a grip on recompiling the TVheadend.
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    Free source of Belden CATV RG6 coax cable.

    I have Gigabyte everything. However since I flashed my switch, it has now become the bottleneck at 57Mbps. The new firmware slowed it down.
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    Free source of Belden CATV RG6 coax cable.

    I believe customers are complaining that they can not achieve the internet download speeds that Roger's is claiming to sell to them. They had to upgrade the cable at my place as I was only getting a 40 Mb download speed but was paying for 100 Mb. After the upgrade, I am at 57Mbps.
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    A new DVB-S2 receiver similar in concept to a HDHomeRun?

    You can buy mine. I used it for a week and then took it off line. It just sits there and reminds me that I made a mistake. It can not process the high bit-rate (mp4) signals and I prefer to watch only high bit-rate signals. I am opting to build a server that does the same as the MOI, but with a...
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    Using RG-6 is so 80's. (IP-LNB)

    I am testing a Satellite LNB to IP system and it is fine for Standard Definition. It is even OK for HD mpeg2 if only one or two people are watching at the same time. But it sucks big time for 1080i mpeg4 content. The processor is not fast enough to handle the high bit-rate content and the...
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    nfusion receiver doa

    Unless you have absolutely no chores to do around the house, throw that STB in the garbage. nfusion does not have blindscan, S2 or HD.
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    PBS HD CHANNELS COMING IN CHOPPY/ DIGITIZED ON AMC 21 ON MY COOLSAT 8000. HELP!

    Those three channels are high bit rate Mpeg4. You will likely have the same problem with NHK 1080i on 58W and even NBC HD on 103W. Since other CS-8Ks are doing fine with those three PBS channels, I suspect a firmware issue that causes a bottleneck in your machine.
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    Have Ku - Is C-Band Worth The Effort?

    yes. 10ft mesh breaks into four sections and will fit nicely into the back of a short-box van. It is a no-brainer for those who already have a C-band dish.
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    Ku Satellite Dish Question

    That looks like a cool feedhorn and ortho splitter (or whatever their normal name is) to experiment with. You already can receive one polarity with that ku lnb and feedhorn setup. I would pull that larger transmit part off and add a second single polarity lnb, just like the first, but rotated 90...
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    NBC related questions

    On the coolsat? No way. That is only SD. I watch 103W for the DVB-S2 HD content. Yes the signal is strong and stable once everything is tweeked. But S2 needs a strong signal to function correctly. NBC on the S2 signals often have four separate audio channels that I wish I could combine to get...
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    A new DVB-S2 receiver similar in concept to a HDHomeRun?

    Well it is up and running. I only had time tonight to see if it could stream and I could receive with VLC. I tried it on 58W. It works good with SD channels. It was scratchy with NHK's 1080i channel. This weekend I will do more experiments with 720p channels and get the 2nd tuner up and running.
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    NBC related questions

    I have a BUD, but I really like the 1.2 meter ku dish fixed on 103W for the HD content. They did have a hockey game on this last weekend.
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    A new DVB-S2 receiver similar in concept to a HDHomeRun?

    Good to know. I also got the email that mine will arrive this week. I am very curious about this new product. I will be able to immediately test it on a shared network that feeds four homes.
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    Finaly got 58*W bird but there a catch....

    It is not an easy task. I spent a whole day tweeking the BUD to get all the satellites on the arc from 55W to 139W. There are so many variables. Still some signals are not as strong as they could be with a fixed dish. One has to know exactly where their dish is pointed throughout the arc in...
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    FTA in South America

    Do not expect to receive English content in FTA that far south unless you have a BUD (big ugly dish ) for C-band. I say this because C-band signals travel further and tend to have a larger footprint. Ku band signals pointed at South America will have Spanish and Portuguese content. Ku band...
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    Telemundo on SES2 87W KU gone?

    My K-tel also went out. A week ago it scanned in at 12004. today it scanned in at 11998. Once I re-scanned at the lower frequency, I was good to go.
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    Question about PC tuner system

    Do one of your old boards take DDR3? I had previously looked up your two old boards and thought I had read DDR3 somewhere.
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    lnb problem

    My first instinct would be to dry it out for a few days and try it again.
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    Beginner question

    1.2 motorized ku band dish with the Geosatpro microHD receiver is a good decision. You can still use your existing C-band lnb on the big dish. If you still have your old C-band receiver, you can use it to control your polorator while the Geosatpro microHD receives the S2 signal. I would point...
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    Question about PC tuner system

    Perhaps test some of the memory that you purchased last year in your new motherboard. They are also DD3.
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    Please help me to identify this LNB

    All C-band lnbs have thick necks. If you can find the scalar ring, I would give the lnb a try. Sometimes old lnbs work better than new ones. You can see the set-screw mark of the scalar ring near the number 38 on the lnb.
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    Questions about dish i scored

    Very true! The existing feedhorn is very important as it is matched to the dish. I have tried replacing the lnb with a regular lnb and could never get the same strength signal as with the original feedhorn.
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    Longitude, Latitude question.

    Such small differences make no differences with USAL. However if you are trying to find your truck after a day of walking in thick forest terrain, it makes a difference.