Recent content by WhiteBeard

HF setups definitely are expensive. Just a decent HF transceiver will set you back $1500. Then a power supply, tower, HF antenna, concrete, cabling, maybe guy wires, VHF/UHF antennas, etc could get you to $3000+. C-band satellite isn't all that cheap either.

Welcome to the "club". We don't have a morse code requirement in the U.S. anymore. I didn't get all that proficient with it but I did get to 15 WPM but then they dropped the requirement which made it easy for me to get the Extra class license. I have had a radiotelephone license since the early...

Merry Christmas.

I replaced my OEM radio that had an SXM radio built in. I kept SXM for streaming over BT to my car stereo. That has worked out fairly well but I might drop SXM because it seems that the same music is played every time I start the stream.

Normally, I go to YT to find info on how to repair stuff. But it's always entertaining to look at the red pill stuff. Sometimes I'll watch a movie but YT seems to censor some content in the movie.

None that I know of.

My IoT devices on on a different subnet just like my guests are. Takes a bit of effort to setup but doable.

I have a couple of T95 boxes but don't use them anymore. I'm using a Nvidia Shield TV box now. I suppose that doesn't have this malware issue but you never know.

15.1 dB with occasional drops to 0 and back to 15.1 dB I tried higher freq transponders on this sat with same results. I have this issue on other sats (99, 101, 103) also. Don't know if it's worth the expense to change to a LNB/servo or dual output LNB. I have 2 C-band antennas exhibiting this...

I guess the C140 was a waste of money. Looks like I won't be watching much C-band anymore.

They need to find a way to speed up downloads for updates like this. It has been 15 minutes and only 5% has downloaded.

Even though it's 15 degrees F outside, I just installed the C140 in my dish. So far so good but I'll need to test this more. UPDATE: It did NOT fix the 5G interference problem.

Many years ago, someone sold a laser pointer mounted in the center of a plastic cup that would fit inside of the mouth of the scaler to align the feed to the center of the dish. I don't know if anyone makes that anymore.

Not much new content worth watching. I'm watching 30+ year old content. If the stream isn't free I don't watch even though I can get military and/or senior discounts.