Recent content by Alex T.

Yeah, have an acquaintance who works as field service tech and have asked him to keep his eye out for BUDs. Plus I go on country drives up in remote desert areas east of me. And generally keep my eyes peeled for big dishes in some valley areas.

Think I'll search around for a larger dish too. Those 16APSK signals are just a little weak with this 8.5 ft Orbitron. After reading some here I am loathe to buy one from the tek2000 'store'. Email only? No phone nor physical address? This: Anyone buy the tek2000 dish? Maybe iBoston can use...

More developments. After much reading here and there, decided to purchase a Linux stb running Enigma 2. Found a review of an Irish seller in another forum for Formuler F1 stbs. 1.3GHz dual core, twin satellite tuner with full satellite arc including our North American satellites, with DVR...

Satfinder Pro by Kvasha Software for iPhone works well for surveying on and around the property too.. If Android phone I'm sure there's something for these too.

Cleaned up trees in path of dish and now have an arc of from 77 w to 133 w satellites. My friend donated to me a Linkbox 8000 receiver that had had a board level failure. We repaired it after doing some extensive searching of forums. Did a factory reset and loaded it with latest 'firmware' from...

3 of the Traveling Wilburys gone but not forgotten. We'll miss you Tom.

After some reading, found out this is a "Spinclination" Orbitron S-8.5 model. And, fortunately, the 'declination' tape is still intact on the mount tube that receives the dish offset angle tube. Still reading up on newer receivers to choose from. Long list. Will be doing some yard cleanup and...

Hip hop eh? That's why I wouldn't know what or who a macklemore is guys. CW, blues, rock 'n roll and classical are all I need.

Not all thrift stores in our search had satellite or other such electronics guy. We were lucky. What the heck is a macklemore? Over the weekend my friend and I replaced the coaxial cables with some twin stuff he had, spliced the 'servo' control wiring, changed the 'lnb' to a 17 degree K one...

Mind you I'm still searching for viable solutions to my satellite system, so am still reading and learning what others have tried. My C-band friend has shown me on his system how he streams from his Ferguson Ariva 4K to a PC to watch 4.2.2 and other forums post how to do this, but if there is...

Quoted directly from the site post: "If you are a TV or radio station manager in Florida and your TVROs sustained serious damage during hurricane Irma...." And look up the definition of profiteer. As I recall from another site that used to be affiliated with that one, it was all about...

I've been doing some reading here and there, gathering knowledge of what and how to do it. In my reading I came upon this splashy advert that screams bad taste in light of the recent Harvey, Irma and now Jose storms that have left so many people homeless, bereaved of their loved ones and pets...

Found the Orbitron manuals here so good to go there. Read some here and there about C-band dishes and such before tackling this dish tune-up. 4 screws that looked to have been there since 20 plus years ago held cone to plastic base with no gaps so I didn't think any bees or wasps had made a...

More pics.....notice name on cone.....Orbitron. Now to find out more about this model. Will have to see what's under the cone too I suppose. I have some experience with Ku dishes from a few years back. A friend mentioned getting a copy of 'the satellite bible'.

Hi, recently moved to Highland CA & left behind by owners was this big dish. Previous owners said they used to get programming on it back in the 90's. What is it & is this good enough to get reception these days? No receivers were part of the deal, so what stuff do I need to get it going?