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Looked in my filing cabinet and found a Radio Shack catalog from 1999. It even has the telephone I still use "200-memory speakerphone with alphanumric display"

No, that would be SES-3, which has been in orbit for quite a while now, waiting for NBC to get off their butt.

That sucks. Another failed broadcaster.

Just heard a promo on HD03 saying that the PBS Newshour will be going to 7 days a week starting September 7th.

Same here.

Thanks for the heads-up. Replaced the now defunct PressTV entry with KTV2.

The reason I do it is to add it to my home theater PC. I keep everything on an external 2TB drive. I recorded "Nova - Earth from Space" back in February which was 2 hours long so I bet the original was 20GB or so. I used Handbrake and compressed it down to 5GB before adding to my video...

I think Create was a blank screen for a while, but not the rest of the Mux.

That's too bad, it was an amusing channel.

I used one until the microHD came out. It won't do DVB-S2 so it's of limited use. I believe to get satellites into orbital position you first sort by satellite, then manually move them into longitude order.

Bad weather at PBS Networks Operations Center (Washington DC I think)? SD07 might have been uplinked from somewhere else in the country at the time.

PBS has election coverage starting at 5PM pacific time on HD01.

When I first got my microHD I looked for NBC on AMC1 but didn't get anything, and the pier-cam wasn't very interesting:) I did a blind scan last night and a bunch of NBC channels were found. NBC Mountain, NBC West, and a bunch of occasionals. I don't think I changed anything here. Does that...

It's not like PBS shows action movies :) I noticed the Motorweek has 5.1 sound, really? Motorweek? Why? There was a Ken Burns show about WWII with 5.1 sound. It was pretty weird watching real black and white footage with studio produced machine gun fire and mortar explosions.

Out of curiosity I asked someone at Oregon Public Broadcasting why they only broadcast 2.0 audio for programs that are now 5.1 after the AMC-21 changeover to MPEG4: "We do not pass Dolby 5.1 audio. We have equipment limitations at our main studios in Portland so we cannot send out 5.1 audio...

Neat!

Now that I think about some more, it actually does more than it needs to do. My original hypotheses was that the microHD and my Toshiba TV shared some of the same remote control codes. For example, channel up and channel down on the Toshiba would cause the microHD to act like it had gotten a...

Finally got it to work. As an extra I have it send an "Exit" remote command 2 seconds after the last channel up or channel down command to get rid of the "Moving Dish" popup should it come on when going between satellites. I used the ancient EPROM based PIC that was used in the previous project...

Or maybe the light from Venus is reflecting off of some swamp gas? :) Seriously though, infrared remote controls work by generating a series of pulses, each consisting of a specific durations where the infrared emitter is turned on and off at a fairly high rate, usually about 38000 times per...

The strange thing is that the uHD shouldn't respond at all to the Toshiba remote control. I've gotten as far as decoding the 32 bit code sent using IR and sending it to my PC as 1200baud serial in hex-ascii format: uHD Channel up: 40401FE0 uHD Channel down: 40401EE1 Toshiba Channel up...

Sometimes it is, other times it's not.

I ran into that situation as well. Years ago I built a board with a 8 pin PIC microprocessor on it that intercepted IR signals from the detector, converted them to another format, and sent them out again. I don't even remember what the purpose was anymore. I'm thinking of intercepting the output...

Guess they still don't have their act together. Now HD04 say October 9th :)

Does it involve a large hammer?

HD04 now has an overlay that says "MPEG2 DVB-S SCPC Transmission End Date 9/25/12 @ 12:00 ET" so it looks like they finally got everyone on board.