Recent content by nhulst

I hadn't heard of HyperMegaSat, thanks for the tip! I agree, I have also ordered from Rick several times and been 100% satisfied.

I didn't see anything in the rules to suggest this is verboten, but please educate me if I'm wrong. I've been out of the hobby for quite a long time, and trying to get started back up again, the retail landscape doesn't seem anything at all like how I remember it. Where is everyone buying from...

"Sold" to iceturkee :)

Technotrend TT-Budget S2-3200 tuner card. This is a conventional PCI card--desktop PC required. It will tune DVB-S2 as well as DVB-S signals but it does not have support for hardware blind scan. It was working when removed from service but I have no way to test it now. You get what you pay...

I'm disappointed but not surprised. You have to see the irony: when the must-carry rules were enacted in the '90s, the broadcasters hated it and sued all the way to the Supreme Court before losing. Fast forward 15 or 20 years, and now retransmission fees are such a big part of the...

I'd love to win one no matter what, but if/when I'm buying one, it will be black.

They added a Craigslist listing with a picture. The dish has also mysteriously lost 4 feet of diameter.... :imconfused http://nd.craigslist.org/ele/4511211395.html

Free -- Williston, ND 10-foot dish Posted for a friend's family member. Not sure why there is no picture, but I was given one at one time and I could see about digging it up if there's serious interest. https://groups.freecycle.org/group/Williston_ND/posts/40503591/Satellite%20Dish

I get it very solid on the Sadoun 6-foot dish and Titanium C1PLL LNBF in central Iowa.

To answer your question directly, I agree with what another poster said earlier in the thread: No matter how good the value is, that's a lot of money to spend on very short notice. I'd like to add a couple more things to the discussion as well. I live on a quarter-acre lot in a...

I picked up a DSR-922 on Craigslist today. I plugged it in at the guy's house and it didn't do anything, so he told me to just take it, no charge. It turned out to have a leaky battery in the VCRS that got down on the main board. It has actually started up once and ran for about a minute...

1. Central Iowa 2. Sadoun 6' dish; C1-PLL LNBF 3. MicroHD; Q is stable between 73-74

Winter in North Dakota means playing hockey on the pond, and Christmas means no school. We would be out there as long as we could stand it. Good times.

From an enthusiast point of view, my biggest question is why should I believe 4k will amount to anything? Anybody who's into FTA and has had the privilege of seeing backhauls would say that pay TV today is bitrate starved for HD and hugely bitrate starved for SD. Why should I believe they will...

I sat outside and played around with the dish pointing for a little while. The longer I stared at the DVB muxes, I could see that the weaker ones of those were dropping out, too. I'm leaning toward saying that there's nothing wrong with the receiver. There's two main options I'm considering...