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There's no easy answer to this since your question is vague. What exactly are you looking to find up in them thar skies? :) The dish. Do you know the approximate age of the dish? Is the dish still in good shape? (not warped, clean, scaler ring still in place? Support struts all intact and not...

Absolutely you do NOT want the FCC involved here. That would set precedent. Do you see companies clammering to the Feds when Wal-Mart won't carry a product anymore because Wal-mart doesn't like the bulk price point? This is business. Yes the subscribers loose out, but it is what it is. The...

The BUD will live on for the hobbyists i'm sure. But subscription BUD i'm pretty sure will not be around for much longer. Especially with the pizza pan offerings out there and WAF (wife acceptance factor) coming into play. That being said, Ku birds have a bunch of feeds in the clear all day...

Your journalists re-write the AP stories?!?! :eek: All the stuff around here is rip-and-read... And not pre-read. :P The stations around here give me enough to make a living. There's always something that needs to be done, i just told a few stations "hey, contract me 20 hours a week, i'll give...

Talk about a thread drift! :) I'm the "project analyst" for KVSC-FM in St. Cloud, MN. One of the few public stations not part of NPR/MPR. Typical college radio. Rule is, if it's been on mainstream radio in the past 10 years, we don't play it!

Yep, it's rather unfortunate too. Ratings can drop through no fault of your own. Trends change. Though engineers are now becoming an expendable item around a station too, we spend money and save money, we provide no revenue. GMs are thinking that it's cheaper to call a guy in an emergency than...

Fair use says that i'm allowed one backup, yet the DMCA enacts the protection mechanisms to not allow it. It's a very gray area imo. Thus, i still do back up my media, legal or not.

The simple point of the matter is that this "crack" or breach in the security, which was supposed to be for the "protection" of the consumer (yeah right) doesn't really mean much. As has been said before, BD player keys were broken within 6 months of inception. The HDCP crack would allow a...

Yeah, we stopped taking Sony discs too. ;) We're actually kinda pissed that we don't get CDs anymore from a lot of labels. They all want us to go to myspace and get them from there... they seem to think that audio quality is universal. This is our new fight. Dumbasses who think 24khz mono...

Okay, i can't help but chime in because people seem to think this whole digital copy thing is black and white. (pardon the pun) Now, the movie industry hated the invention of instant replay back in the 60's, they REALLY hated the invention of the VCR (with integrated tuners!) in the 70's, but...

Because the DTV hacking is so far underground now after they started suing end users, not just the hardware guys (not to mention they use an entirely different encryption system and modulation system that standard FTA boxes can't decode it, so it's modded provider gear). DN used to be easy to...

There's a super not-so-secret key method of forcing the STB into recovery mode and pulling a factory file right off the USB as well. It bypasses the main bin and goes into a life support mode. I had to do that several times to mine with the infamous UD error (which in reality is the caps on the...

82kW on ch3 is a TON of power on analog! No wonder they could get the reach they did. Out here in the flat lands, it's not impossible with a super high gain antenna on top of a grain elevator (and preamp of course) to get stations 80-100 miles out. And of course now with digital, there's a...

I used to get that all the time. I work in radio (no, not a DJ, "Broadcast Engineer"), so i see them all the time. While the bunkers from hell(tm) are pretty cool, in reality, it's just a dish, no need for a tower really. But hey, if the ham club wants to knock down their lease price (and has a...

Well, i've done this game before. It's not fun, it's definately not cheap, but the long-term payout is pretty good. First and foremost, FCC allocation lawyers to get an uplink license alone is about $50k said and done, this does not include any annual licensing fees. This is just to have a...