Recent content by scopx

You do not indicate if welding by gas or electric. If by electric, be forewarned that that electronic sensors and devices do not like currents floating about! (Found out hard way when fried a solid state glow plug controller on diesel pu.) Was doing small electric welding on back bumper. It prob...

Any help here? REal deal or Clone? Anybody know? First time using the quote thing and hope not double posting. ? Thanks Any help here, anyone know if this is genuine or clone? Tom

Just pulled the cover off new Ebay purchase of 6000 CS with the following results. Motherboard is genuine, RF mod is genuine SDRAM id numbers different than either genuine or pdf furnished in this thread. DAC """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" MPEG ...

The most unusual I ever came across was during the early 90's while running thru c band about 2AM. It was a embalming class with male cadaver on the slab. The "donor" was covered up but his tongue was sticking out of his mouth about 4 inches! Did not know weather to laugh or gag. think I have a...

Groze, My response to your question would be. Do you have access to the attic? Would you consider building you own antennas or just buy? Do you like to experiment? If so you can inexpensively build 3 or 4 antennas, each with its own coax-pointing in the directions of the towers you want to...

I built a 4 element and propped it up beside tv in living room. It was not even in the direction of transmitters which were 40+ miles away. Was suprised that it did receive. Then put antenna at patio door in approximate direction of transmitters and ran scan again. It pulled all of Austin Tx...

And of course, I read the update (offer extended until 4PM Friday) at 4:13 WC time Friday! Guess I did not want one anyway. Well, will keep my money until next time. Thanks anyway.

My 2 pennies: Stainless is good, but expensive. A "good" hardware store will carry "anodized" bolts, nuts and washers. They are a lot less expensive than stainless (just little more than zinc )and hold up quite well. Tom

Why I this still being promoted by the vendor? I called this morning at their opening on the west coast and was advised they were all sold out of this unit!!

Thanks Gremlin

Gremlin: Your dish appears to be the primestar 40x43 with offset feed with R11 coax! I have that dish and having trouble finding flange mount lnb as replacement. It looks as you used a direct (flangeless type 40MM lnb. Would you share what lnb type you are using , and success ? Thanks

Big Dish! Has anyone had the opportunity to drive thru what I call the "valley of the dishes" in southwestern New Mexico? The dishes are mounted on several sets of railroad type tracks. The area has mountains all around as so is protected from ti. Must be 30 or more dishes and do not know...

Olliec420 Have you ever observed the "green flash" from your location? I did once when way down south on the pacific side. Tom

TO RV1POP Concerning buried cable lines It has been my experience, necessary to enclose buried cable in some sort of pvc or dvw type protection. The ground critters seem to get their jollies nibbling on the shielding, therefore degrading signal. Tom

Questions from the unwashed. Does the term "Birdview" mean a brand or a type of dish? Is th f/d different? The one Linuxman is going to pickup appears to be solid and one heavy muthr. Are they any better than mesh type? Thanks Tom