Recent content by ReggieA

I'm not uninterested, just unable to participate. I'm still in a nursing home, recovering much slower than I'd hoped. My view is to the North, and not much of that. I've no real chance of any kind of satellite access, so I'm keeping quiet and biding my time.

Well, if you can get the PDF version, download it and print it yourself (on archival-grade paper, no less).

If I might suggest, the Florida heat wouldn't be so bad if you were outside at night. There's a full moon now, so there's some light, and of course the satellites are always there.

I've got MeTV on, via Dish, at 11 AM on 5/26. Matlock just finished, and In The Heat of the Night is coming on. All seems OK here.

I looked up "WTOO-CD" on Wikipedia (where else), and found out that it's now a Low Power TV station. Their office is in Bolivar, PA; the antenna is north of Johnstown on the Cambria/Westmorland county line. Their website is: WTOO-CD - Wikipedia

TitanTV.com has listings a week or so in advance. Not sure how to do off-air listings, but I've been using it for cable & satellite listings for years.

Well, the obvious question is, Where is it? (How far would one have to travel to collect it?) And what all is included? "Everything" isn't a sufficient answer.

Given the distance, and reasonable power, it'd probably be on Ku band to keep the tx/rx dishes to a reasonable size. The Earth dish would also have to be automatically aimed, as the Moon's direction changes through the day. And the station won't be available when the Moon is down, so maybe not...

Doesn't anyone make a (generic?) booster amp? There's got to be a market for that.

If you've got stuff recorded on the box, you might want to keep it; at least until you can copy it off somewhere else. (They're not going to send someone after it.)

Umm... "Maybe" I'm just dense, but why "only one polarity"?

Well, a feed arm. But the waveguide, if there was one, would mount to that; and we don't know where the end of that was relative to the dish: axial, offset, ??? . Maybe Mr. Wry will clarify the shape.

What about regular (tarpaper) roofing shingles? Could I put a dish in the attic, and "see" through the roof?

Well... It looks like a straight parabolic dish. It should be easy to find the focal point on that, where the lnb, etc. goes. At that size, it's probably intended for C-band; but would be sweet for K-band. Is it steerable? What kind of mount? I'd find out who it belongs to; and try to acquire...

I'm really tired of the commercials featuring the ostrich, or whatever. Same company has a few featuring a giant dollhouse - can't change the channel fast enough for those! OTOH, the play-on-words commercials, where people have a problem with their neighbors fencing :fencing, or the pipes making...