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    Does the site at gjullien.fr/satellite.htm still work for anyone? Wanting to use the moon to find a satellite

    The site at Place satellite dish using sun or moon used to allow you to "use sun or moon to choose the best place for your satellite antenna." While there are (I think) other sites that will let you use the sun, that was the only one I knew of that would let you use the moon. It used to...
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    Tree Trimming ??

    Assuming that you can be certain that anything you cut out of the trees will not fall on your house, car, garage or storage buildings, or your neighbor's property, etc. and that there are no wildlife babies making a home in the part of the tree you need to cut off, you might take a look at...
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    Testing the Titanium C140 and C240 5G Filtered BLUE LNBFs

    I would be really interested to know if anyone has successfully used this method to block 5G signals. I see that it did not work for N6BY so I just wonder if it has worked for anyone. What we really need is an LNB where the upper threshold of the lower filter is user-adjustable, so that you...
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    99W NBC and PBS muxes

    Figures. I had hoped maybe it was back in the clear.
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    NBC mux on 99 Ku

    Are you actually able to receive video and audio? My TBS6985 card will let me scan the channels into Tvheadend but nothing will actually play. The PBS mux comes in fine so I don't think the dish is out of alignment, at least not by much.
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    99W NBC and PBS muxes

    I think readings are relative, using a TBS 6985 tuner card for PBS I get SNR 12.4 dB and Signal Strength -47.8 dBm but it's quite possible that even a different TBS tuner card would report those differently. As for NBC, I can scan in their mux and it shows the four time zone feeds as well as...
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    zap2it is gone

    If by some chance you are still using the old zap2xml.pl script... sed -i 's/zap2it/gracenote/g' zap2xml.pl or if you are using it in Tvheadend and don't want to change all your EPG sources links... Edit zap2xml.pl and change the urlRoot value to $urlRoot = 'https://tvlistings.gracenote.com/';
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    How things have changed

    Don't forget that in addition to the OTA channels they could also offer the free ad supported channels (PlutoTV, TubiTV, Plex, etc.). I don't know if there would be any legal requirements around that but as a non-lawyer I would not think so because it would be the guest choosing to watch, and...
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    Testing the new Titanium C138 Performance Plus C Band LNBF

    Thanks for the update, and I am actually happy to hear you are holding out for a high quality product. I discovered that the "interference" I thought was 5G was actually caused by poor design of the tuner card I was trying to use, and switching to a different tuner solved the issue, so that...
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    TBS5580 - Third time's the charm?

    Okay, Scott, I understand your reasoning, however I will say this is not the norm - most other forums let you go back an edit posts even after quite some time. As for removing bad information in posts, I would attribute that to a sincere desire to remove bad information, not to make the member...
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    TBS 6903-X Professional with Tvheadend: Success!

    Just to confirm what I wrote above, see my post at TBS5580 - Third time's the charm? which confirms that it is NOT 5G interference that is the problem, it is something about the TBS6903-X card that is wonky. And yes, I wrote TBS6910SE above when I meant to say TBS6903-X! I REALLY wish this...
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    TBS5580 - Third time's the charm?

    After the failures with the TBS6910SE and the TBS6903X, I tried a USB connected tuner, specifically the TBS5580. Same dish, same LNB, connected to the same Tvheadend backend, but this time it appears to be working with no signs of the "interference" that plagued the TBX6903X. Unlike the USB...
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    TBS 6903-X Professional with Tvheadend: Success!

    Well, my final verdict is this: The TBS6910SE card is probably going to be returned. When I made my previous post I had assumed the issue was 5G interference, although that seems strange for a couple of reasons, one being that I am in a semi-rural area and there are no towers that I'm aware of...
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    TBS 6903-X Professional with Tvheadend: Success!

    I went out today and re-peaked the dish and I am getting a good strong signal but the problem persists. My guess is that it seems that DVB-S2X is far more susceptible to 5G(?) interference. I have never had an issue with that before, even with that same dish and LNB, but the interference I am...
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    Testing the new Titanium C138 Performance Plus C Band LNBF

    It's now "next year" :) and the question is are we even getting close to the release of the blue filter models? I ask because it appears that DVB-S2X signals are far more impacted by this issue than regular DVB-S2 or DVB-S signals, especially at certain times of the day, and even though I have...
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    TBS 6903-X Professional with Tvheadend: Success!

    Well sadly that went downhill fast, LOTS of breakups and signal loss, Tvheadend reports a whole lot of errors. It is possible the dish need to be re-peaked but as of now the signal is unwatchable.
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    TBS 6903-X Professional with Tvheadend: Success!

    So for those who saw my previous post, TBS6910SE with Tvheadend: Total failure to receive, I just wanted to say that I returned that card and got a TBS 6903-X professional instead. Preliminary results are it does work, including for DVB-S2X. Here are the settings I used in Tvheadend to receive...
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    TBS6910SE with Tvheadend: Total failure to receive

    I tried a TBS6910SE tuner card today, the intent was that we could receive ABC's new DVB-S2X signal. I had to remove an existing card to make room for the new one so I removed one that was connected to a disk pointed at Galaxy 19 at 97° and also to a second C-band dish pointed at another...
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    DVB-S2X / DVB-S2 Minimum C/N Lock Calculator

    Since I'm not a math genius, can you clarify a bit what you mean by "a BIG dish"? Assuming I am in the continental US, would an 8 foot dish be big enough? 10 foot? 12 foot? Or some gargantuan dish that only a TV station or cable company would have? It looks like they switched the feed on the...
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    OTHER If your receiver only supports saving recordings to an external drive and not over a local network, this might show a workaround

    I stumbled across this today and it reminded me that when I got my first satellite receiver with PVR capability, it would only save files to an attached external drive, but it had no ethernet jack nor any other way to connect to the Internet. Even firmware updates had to be copied to a USB...
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    Anyone else having problems getting CBS feed on G19 (97°W) 4080V?

    We don't have strong 5G signals here; even people who are paying for 5G can't use it here. And given the previous experience of a relative who bought Titanium LNB's (not the 5G filtered ones but a previous model with the big aluminum heat sink) only to find that they simply stopped working any...
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    Anyone else having problems getting CBS feed on G19 (97°W) 4080V?

    I know this is a difficult signal to receive in any case because it is 16APSK and 4:2:2, so not all equipment can receive it, but I'm asking because it has always been fairly reliable and we can't get a good OTA signal on CBS. But last night and tonight there has been no signal there at...
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    The CW, again - I thought it was moving from 91 W to 93 W but today it was only on 91 W?

    Thanks, at least I know I'm not the only one who is getting nothing there. I appreciate the response!
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    The CW, again - I thought it was moving from 91 W to 93 W but today it was only on 91 W?

    I thought the CW was supposed to be moving from 91 W to 93 W, so I tried to move my 91 dish to 93 today and got zilch on 4109H 15000 SR (using the settings on Lyngsat's page for G35). This was between 2 and 3 PM Eastern this afternoon. Has anyone else had a problem getting them during the...
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