Recent content by arlo

I don't know. I have a similar wall mount for my 55" Bravia. My Sony soundbar is mounted on the wall just under it. It has screw keyholes for that. Mine was from BestBuy. The shelf looks pretty cool. Wish they had them when I was shopping. You can pull the TV out from the wall, push it in...

I wasn't being pessimistic in my rant. Actually If I were able to I would have assisted in helping to find the root cause of the sudden decline of my broadband service. Instead they played Swaptronics for almost 2 years. Sending a guy out multiple, multiple times to check signal levels. Going to...

Well of course. I think that if a land-based Internet option is availiable, the general guidelines say that is probably your first consideration. The bed and bfast friends live way, way out in the sticks. There is not even dsl over copper. Before going Hughes they actually used a Verizon...

Don't know about Starlink resellers. But for the ka band broadband ISP's, I think it shows the slow decline in folks having alternatives. I turned some friends with a BnB on to Starlink some 2 years ago. Nothing but good stuff coming from them. With (who was it...Hughesnet?). Hunters would show...

By chance does anyone know the exact name/type of the dipole feed used on the grid/helicone antennas? I'm also trying to get my feet wet receiving GOES. So far I made a 7 turn LHCP helical antenna for a Viasat dish as well as swapped the pin feed on a RHCP patch antenna to convert it to LHCP...

I've noticed a recent surge of folks dumping their TP-Link wifi routers on the likes of FB marketplace and Craigs. I think it's cool that the RE guys who peek into bootloaders and firmware of these devices and find iffy, hmmm code alert people that the most intricate and sophisticated user...

Don't know cybes. Haven't ever really used an onboard editor. Probably because of the whole remote left-right-up-down thing. Using an old version of E-Channelizer and have been for years. The free version. I know some prefer the likes of Dreamboxeditor and the likes. Onboard editors just seem a...

I was amazed and at the same time wondering what good drugs the Icom crew were doing when they offered the matching power supply for the R8600. I person would think that things like...the big thing...providing clean DC for a basically DC to daylight receiver would not be an issue. Especially a...

The reply thing, dunno. A link that shows a bit of geekery and just plain time on your hands and wondering 'what if??' : Cooling the LNB Something to note is that the Bullseye has a TCXO. So chilling the unit below (or heating it) above the rated specs could give a bit of frequency drift and...

On a component level. From a few lnbf teardowns. Trying to look up datasheets for the individual IC's can be a crap shoot. Some have a gasfet, etc., transistor hoked to the antenna probes in the throat before the mixer IC. And some feed the H & V probes either into a switching circuit then into...

Haven't seen mention of the Othernet Bullseye lnbf. Seems to be the ku band lnbf choice of many moonbounce fans. Surprised you haven't heard of it. I thought it was cool that when Othernet was up that you didn't even need a dish. Anyway. Lot's of geekiness here: Bullseye

So. Has anyone actually contacted a Dish rep. and asked "When I record something, can I replay it forever?" Better yet. Aren't there Dish reps. here on this site who can answer that? Seems like a lot of hemming and hawing going on still about a supposedly obsoleted receiver. "Is it the HDD?"...

That's some good reading, the Sony/TCL thing. I have a house fill of Sony TV's. Personally they never let me down/ When I buy anything with menu driven configurations. Sony hands down seems to beat them all. Besides the projection TV I bought years ago that went green screen and I missed out on...

This was very interesting to find. A NOAA weather station outside of Philly. Aimed most probably at 121W on the NOAAPort tp. Never really saw a shield on anything but microwave link dishes on towers. Pretty cool, huh!

All outdoors in a weatherproof Amazon cabinet. Sealed it up with weather stripping to keep the bugs and rain spatter out. All the coax is in cable glands. Haha. Buy once, cry once. Until a switch fries again. Fingers crossed.