Recent content by mchatel

Thanks Thanks for the info guys. That is what I suspected...if I had C-Band dish up, this would be more useful. I'll have to see if I bother with it then, for just Ku use. I just wanted to "rescue" it. lol.

Hey all. Found an old GI 450i analog receiver at a 2nd hand-store here in my area. I just picked it up, mostly to play with it at some point. My question is... Eventually, I'm going to setup either a dedicated dish parked on a bird, which sometimes has an analog feed once in awhile, or... I...

I love this. You have a theme going on... :-) Enjoy the TV viewing.

Me too. It sounds like the kind of toy I would love to tinker with. :-)

I have one of these in my configuration too, but I can't comment on it yet, as it was just recently introduced into my mix. I have heard they are a good switch too. They have a 4 year warranty it looks like. Another good one would be Spaun - again, German-made.

I've used BAFF (made in Germany), and they seem like a good Diseq switch. I've also heard good things about the Chieta switches too, but I've never used them myself. Yeah, those cheap Diseq switches are garbage. I had two that went bad... a particular port would just quit working.

I believe the magazine you are referring to is still around, but it may just be a UK publication now? TV & Satellite Week TV Spy | Keeping you up to date with the best US shows I think I have even seen these in the Chapters bookstore here in Canada, but, as with any UK publication, when you...

Hey guys... I caught the ad again generated from the "Ads by Google" advertising. This is the one I saw before, which you probably want to remove, for obvious reasons. :-) (Site Removed) Especially since is shows so prominently.

Will do. Thanks for the info!

Ahhh... that would probably explain it then.

N3 Fix advertisement I just noticed... I was logged into the forums here, and was away from my desk for awhile. When I returned to my desk my session was logged out of Satelliteguys.us, from the time-out. Right at the top of the screen, above the "Satellite guys sponsors" was a red...

NASA TV has a mix of stuff. Check out their website: www.nasa.gov/ntv Sometimes it's satellite imagery, sometimes educational clips, sometimes live feeds. Of course, there is a shuttle mission on right now, so we got to watch the live take-off, with camera angles, etc... and you can watch the...

Probably just the amount of RF shielding in the cable, and maybe price. lol. I'm not too familiar with tri-shield cable. Regular RG6 has two layers of shielding, a layer of foil, and a layer of braided shielding. I'm guessing tri-shield just adds an extra layer of shielding (probably foil)...

Yeah, that's the most fool-proof method. It's nice seeing that you got what you paid for. :-)

Your performance with your RG6U cable probably had more to do with the cable quality/use itself, and nothing to do with the U letter designation. The U does not stand for UnShielded. It has differing meanings... Sometimes it's meant to stand for Universal, sometimes people refer to it as...