I am usually a person who believes that most things have a logical explanation if you look hard enough.
However, after 5 days on the roof, either the Sun has made me crazy or I was already there and went over the edge.
I have put in a larger dish to see how it would help the "problem" birds from my location in Dish's fleet.
After 5 days of looking at all dbs birds from 61.5W to 148W, apparently I should charge admission to my roof as it seems to be a giant black hole where science goes out the window.
Case in point. My very first Dish 500 is still up there - now looking at 119/129. A 20" pizza box. On the Accutrac22 meter I see a 40 on 129W at about 40ma.
If I take a 1.2 with a Invacom Quad lnbf with a 0.3 noise level, I see about a 80 on 129W at about 80ma.
(These measurements were taken at the same time as we know 129 is floating space junk as I have watched the 80 fall to about a 53 over 5 minutes in a perfectly clear sky, but thats a follow up topic).
So 2 feeds...into the meter essentially 2:1 1.2M to .5M.
I unplug the accutrac and put the feeds into a simple SW21.
Head off the roof to my Dish 6000s and ViP211s.
The Pizza Box gives me 78 on 129 T3. One would think I would overload the meter on the poor 6000 when I change the feed to the 1.2M.
WRONG!!!!
If that was the case, my roof would not be heading for a designation of National Importance where Black Holes must form.
I get a 73 with the 1.2M.
Again, same feeds on roof 2-1. On the ground the Pizza Box wins by 5-10%.
Now of course, over 5 days, I have used 6 different SW21s, 4 different SW64s, 2 different runs of RG6 and a Partridge in a Pear Tree. All with the same results.
Too make it even more interesting, I have replicated the above with 119 off the other side of the Pizza box - and it all comes out the same.
For the love of all things holy, before Carl Sagan comes back from the dead on my roof, Jodie Foster shows up only to loose 18 hours in 6 seconds and Al Gore claims he discovered it, can anyone offer any reasonable explanation wtf is going on?
However, after 5 days on the roof, either the Sun has made me crazy or I was already there and went over the edge.
I have put in a larger dish to see how it would help the "problem" birds from my location in Dish's fleet.
After 5 days of looking at all dbs birds from 61.5W to 148W, apparently I should charge admission to my roof as it seems to be a giant black hole where science goes out the window.
Case in point. My very first Dish 500 is still up there - now looking at 119/129. A 20" pizza box. On the Accutrac22 meter I see a 40 on 129W at about 40ma.
If I take a 1.2 with a Invacom Quad lnbf with a 0.3 noise level, I see about a 80 on 129W at about 80ma.
(These measurements were taken at the same time as we know 129 is floating space junk as I have watched the 80 fall to about a 53 over 5 minutes in a perfectly clear sky, but thats a follow up topic).
So 2 feeds...into the meter essentially 2:1 1.2M to .5M.
I unplug the accutrac and put the feeds into a simple SW21.
Head off the roof to my Dish 6000s and ViP211s.
The Pizza Box gives me 78 on 129 T3. One would think I would overload the meter on the poor 6000 when I change the feed to the 1.2M.
WRONG!!!!
If that was the case, my roof would not be heading for a designation of National Importance where Black Holes must form.
I get a 73 with the 1.2M.
Again, same feeds on roof 2-1. On the ground the Pizza Box wins by 5-10%.
Now of course, over 5 days, I have used 6 different SW21s, 4 different SW64s, 2 different runs of RG6 and a Partridge in a Pear Tree. All with the same results.
Too make it even more interesting, I have replicated the above with 119 off the other side of the Pizza box - and it all comes out the same.
For the love of all things holy, before Carl Sagan comes back from the dead on my roof, Jodie Foster shows up only to loose 18 hours in 6 seconds and Al Gore claims he discovered it, can anyone offer any reasonable explanation wtf is going on?
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