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I can appreciate your sarcasm in a thread that reads like one big April Fool's joke. In my ham radio days, I encountered people who actually believed "It's only illegal if you get caught." A CBer in the area with a fat amp was messing up everyone's TVs and cordless phones so the neighbors all...

Welcome. This is a great site with lots of technicians willing to share their knowledge. Ask questions and you will get plenty of answers, many of them correct. I have learned a lot just by lurking.

A pirate radio station is a pirate radio station. The FCC may not put a lot of effort into tracking down CBers with liner amps but I think they would get real interested in someone broadcasting on a TV frequency. Especially when the neighbors started seeing Dish channels on their TVs. The...

This thread got me curious, so I conducted a very un-scientific test. Hooked my Birdog up to a pole-mounted DTV dual LNB dish (Wineguard) set at a 46 degree angle. From a dry dish, I got a reading of S=71 and Q=100. With everything still connected, I flooded the dish with a garden hose set on...

For you Birdog retailers out there: How long do you think it will take for config files to be available after the three new DTV sats are heated up?

Solid Signal sold me mine at what seems to be the going price of $439 + shipping. You can build a configuration file on the Birdog Web site that has just the DirecTV sats and download it to the Birdog. Besides the ratcheting 7/16th wrench, my Birdog is the best tool I have in my bag. You just...