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    Telstar 14R 63w

    Was trying to find amazonas and hit 63w on the way. 11732v 1883 test pattern.
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    Picked up a General Instrument Super 350i Today

    I picked up the super350i at goodwill today to dissect for $5.99 minus the senior discount. It came with the videocypher module.
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    robin red breast

    I saw my 1st robin of the year this afternoon,way early for southern connecticut. Usually they don't show up until around st. patricks day
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    blackout

    today is the anniversary of the 1965 northeast power blackout. My mother still made me and my brother do our homework by propane lantern light.
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    starving

    Because of the blizzard/closed roads in the state, food service workers can't get back to the hospitals to prepare food.People haven't eaten since yesterday.A friend that works at St.Francis mentioned she was able to get home but there are nurses stranded there.
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    NBC Mux on 72w

    nbc on 72w Is it me,or is nbc on 72w gone?
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    wide berth

    somebody told me ct passed a law if you see a cop parked on the highway in the breakdown lane you have to change lanes and get into the passing lane going by or it's a $180 fine.True or bs?
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    hd but not h.264?

    Globo hd x100 firmware on my openbox s10 midnight last night I recorded an hd wildfeed dee snider celebrity roast and the receiver didn't complain I had it set to record .ps instead of .ts, which was strange. It was the 1st time I was ever able to record hd without the drive too slow nag.I...
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    bsc621-2 woes

    Do you think this type lnb can go bad just sitting around for years in a cellar? I borrowed it years ago for mini bud experiments and gave it back.I borrowed it again this week but I can't even get it to work on ku band.I aim my dish with a regular universal ku then switch over to the bsc that I...
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    dtx9900 repair

    my digitalstream dtx9900 ota converter bit the dust,no output no leds on. After unplugging for a while and plugging back in,the green led blinks. Looking at the power supply,c209 was bloated so I replaced it and got it going again. The original was a 330uf 16v,replaced it with a 220ufd 35v
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    Openbox x3

    openbox up to x3 now the crybabies finally got their 50k channel list capability. We should have such problems. S series is getting left in the dust. Openbox X3 HD PVR(3)_Shenzhen Yojia Technology Co., Ltd.
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    killed my s10

    I killed my s10 trying to take temp readings on the processor.The probe fell on the mainboard with power on and I killed the I2C bus to the tuner. Tuner says signal and quality 90% even with no coax connected.The temp was 120 degrees before the mishap. The firmware then detected the receiver as...
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    openbox s10 beep

    I was playing with old s9 firmware from jan 2011 on the s10 and noticed there is a signal beep function in the lnb power menu.Also a BER on/off and channel type view. The s10 tuner was dead and the mac,machine,nc id's were all zero. The same with march 02, 2011 firmware. The march 10 and 21...
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    tweaking 85w

    90cm motorized dish,openbox s10 I use the 12035h tp to tweak the quality,but if I tweak to get 70% quality and do a blindscan I also pick up the 87w transponders.Should I back off and tweak for 60% or less instead?If I do that then the receiver doesn't find the 12035 tp even tho I can manually...
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    openbox won't recognize new drive

    I just bought a wd 500gig external drive at wally world and the s10 won't recognize it. XP looks for drivers for the case,that is not a good sign. I have to figure out how to get rid of the virtual cd drive which chews up space and appears as the drive letter before the hardrive. My theory is...
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    s10 motor settings

    I was playing with the 5-22 firmware and my motor settings(diseqc) were wacky. It seems every 5 sats or so would go to position #1 and stay there and not budge. As an example,83w.If the motor was on a close sat,then I could move it to 83w and save. I had to add a tp from 83w to the 85w tp...
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    reply with quote grabs the whole page

    using osx86 and firefox 3.6.24, sometimes when I hit reply with quote in a thread that function grabs the entire webpage including ads.I have to bail out and then hit reply with quote and then it behaves properly.Anybody ever see anything like that before or is it just a osx firefox problem.
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    s10 4:2:2

    recorded some sport 4:2:2 wildfeed and I turned the tv off and came back to it later. Screen said no signal so I assumed the event was over. I played the .ts on the pc and noticed the recording ended a lot sooner than expected kind of abruptly, so I don't know if the s10 burped and lost signal...
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    74w remnants?

    I was trying to find a new sat to watch last night and I noticed a couple of ticks west of 72 I got 3 strong tp's but with no tv or radio on them. 11841H 33000 11881H 33000 12060V 27695 possibly 74w? I couldn't find any matches on lyngsat or sathint.
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    s10 accurate scan?

    openbox s10;whats the difference between blindscan and accurate scan?
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    plastic in throat 103w

    In the old days converting linear lnb's to circular by putting plastic in the lnb throat,I noticed the lnb would still get linear signals at a reduced quality(mirrored V and H tp's,but what the heck) I was wondering if I could do something like that to a fixed dish aimed at 103w to get the nbc...
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    S10 hd torture test

    Would the pentagon hd channel on 101w be a good test for recording HD on the openbox s10?Or should I try to find an hd channel with an SR of 30000? I tried recording an hd wildfeed last week and the receiver burped.
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    WSAH

    The ota rtv channel is being auctioned off. quote: WSAH Bridgeport (CT), on the edge of the New York DMA, is to be auctioned off in bankruptcy court. WSAH was among the five stations Multicultural Television Broadcasting bought from Scripps for $170 million in 2006. Kalil & Co. is handling...
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    storm stories

    After hurricane Irene I had to use generators/car batteries/inverter and I noticed the generators weren't performing as expected.I slapped a digital voltmeter on both and they were only putting out 105v no load.Luckily there was a screw on the carb for tweaking the speed up,so I set both for...
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    phonevision trivia

    For CT viewers old enough to remember ch18 in hartford during the 1960's One of the first pay tv stations in the country. A c/p from wikipedia The Phonevision system was operational on station WHCT in Hartford, Connecticut for at least two years, ending in 1969. The station would run...