Recent content by Wayd Wolf

The installers have NOTHING to do with this. Reselling Dish requires DISH NETWORK contracts and they are what they are. Read: insanely stupid and counterproductive and a very good reason so many multi-family houses are hacked to cr*p by installers. Your father isn't likely to get money from...

Okay, once and for all: The ONLY lines in satellite that can be split are those carrying pure feed. NO splitters between the switch and the receivers. 1. 13/18VDC lines CAN be split, but ONLY if ONE power source is used and ONLY if the power level stays at that level such that it is kept...

Other than the one line vs. two line dual tuner thing, many installers don't understand and hence fear diplexors. Diplexing the second tuner output back to another point simplifies things tremendously, but too many installers simply refuse to use them, so they then assume a third line is...

Not really. Some toners detect splitters as a short by beeping but some don't. Some splitters are self-terminating, some aren't. You need one of those stud finders with the deep scan. Dish in-house (DNSC) uses them with a piece of corrugated cardboard right underneath on tar shingles and they...

Okay, here's how you do it with a 322. 1. Tell him that unless he pays for a remote control extender that will transmit the first tuner's remote signals back to the receiver, he will have to change channels at the box in the basement. 2. Use an amp for the channel 3/4 output so it will...

It might be simply better to find someone in the satellite business who has a current copy of the Perfect-10 catalog, and for a slight mark-up, will sell you the right tool for the job. You can also go to an electronics and electrical supply house and check with them. Lowes? Home Depot...

Jack Daniels. (It's a softer drink than some others... :D)

Forget the shot put and javelin. They need to have an event for catching those. "And the competitor from Poland is running, running, running... OH D*MN!!! ANOTHER competitor fails to turn and grab at the right moment. I think that wound might just be fatal folks." We need to add uphill ski...

Combined with in-dash flat screens, cordless shavers, and breakfast sandwiches, we know have the perfect line-up of distractions to ensure absolute and complete lack of safety on the nation's roads. What a tremendous feat we have accomplished. Maybe Nader should re-do Unsafe at Any Speed to...

To steal shamelessly from Dennis Miller, the Yankees had as many points in that Indian game as I did and I wasn't even playing. The Indians? How do you lose like that to the Indians? This would be like losing to the Cubs. Or your local high school team. Ouch.

CT requires a license but the DNSC operation has a principal with the former license and they are in the process of getting the new individual licenses for their techs. The phrase "when Hell freezes over" has been mumbled on the time frame. Not one CT contractor I know has one. The Department of...

Please specify their upper frequency limit and modulation standard. QAM256 has about 38.8Mbps per 6Mhz slot and you can do the math on a system that goes to 867Mhz. They have far more bandwidth that satellite does which operates usually on QPSK with 24Mhz slots. The only way DBS can have...

Dish Network is no different than any other antenna. It MUST be grounded properly, minimum to the National Electric Code, and legally, to local electrical building codes, whichever is more stringent. ALWAYS to household ground to prevent ground faults. NOT a separate ground source. Though...

Nonsense. I've worked outfits where four to six four-setters were expected PER DAY and had to be perfect and WERE QC'd, EVERY ONE. The biggest thing is whether the installer has A) experience and B) confidence. Lack of the first will doom the entire enterprise as there are always unexpected...

Believe it. Even FSMs have been known to ignore the grounding requirements on a regular basis and the QAS miss errors that Stevie Wonder would see in a fog. Grounding is NOT optional, and NOT to satisfy some anal executive management, and NOT to mollify the legal department. It is to prevent...