Recent content by cyberham

I guess they don't make 'Elmers' like they used to. Many decades ago, VE7OF Steve (SK) spent the better part of a school year each Tuesday evening training my friend and I as high school students on all subjects required to write the exam. Besides the test material, Steve also indoctrinated us...

This is true for my Edision. For this reason, I have disconnected the coaxial cable in my house (with power on) rather than powering down the Edision in order to cut power to a diseqc switch. But I wouldn't recommend doing it that way. Do what I say, not what I do. But nowadays I have no diseqc...

You must have a non-FTA receiver also. From memory, I don't think I receive any other tps on that sat, I assumed, since they are Turbo.

They're not hidden. You scan in 4043 V 10127, then select the audio channel of choice.

Can you not receive it? If not, then I guess it's on the Canada beam despite what Lyngsat says. Anyway, it's about as exciting as one of those Nexstar colour bar channels.

You've got Ku pretty well covered. There's a little bit ITC for me on 114.9W, 77W and 72.7W. I can see further east up to about 70W but I can't actually find anything to view east of 72.7W.

Have you inserted a dielectric slab in your LNB since this satellite has circular transponders? That transponder has a C/N lock value of just 1.0 dB so it is the easiest C-band transponder on that satellite to receive. Anything on 4132 R 30000?

I discovered this too. But it does lock the WPR mux. Its content is quite agreeable.

Interesting comment. Because technology can do something, this doesn't make it useful, desirable or required. If we always yield to what the masses want, I'm not sure the end result is good. This isn't anti-capitalist nor anti-democratic. Just being thoughtful.

This is true. However, there is still lots to receive using a 7.5' Perfect dish. Don't not get into FTA satellite just because you can't find/afford a 10' or larger dish. C-band ain't dead yet.

Here in my condo room in SE Asia, the TV dial has many channels including CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, DW, etc. I think they are from a subscribed package of the room owner. In particular, I can see RT (Russia Today) in English like we used to get in North America on 97W Galaxy 19. This channel is...

Now, in your mind's eye, convert all those Ku dishes to C-band. That's SE Asia!

C-band dishes at properties and on top of buildings are the norm. Though most are likely 8-feet or less.

If guessing my age, wrong. If guessing the year, wrong century. The malls may be from the 2030s.

Inside knowledge! Permitted. If the diseases don't get you, the leaves will. Feet up; enjoy the satellites. Can't believe the number of 4', 6', 10' C-band dishes here, even for apartments.