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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...

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...

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...

Thanks, at least I know I'm not the only one who is getting nothing there. I appreciate the response!

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...

I am not really an electronics person. I can maybe replace a blown capacitor (sometimes) but that's about it. I do not understand digital circuits. So I have a question. In every modern TV, there is an LED display, and there are speakers. Now back in the old days of tube TV's you could get...

Depends on if you are content with watching a show once and then not ever being able to see it again, at least not conveniently. The point of recording something is that anything streaming can be gone tomorrow or next week or next month. As long as you have a recording you can watch it again...

Not using SiliconDust devices, perhaps, but there will just be too big a market of people who want to be able to record shows and skip commercials (as they have been doing for the past two or three decades) for the pirate box makers to ignore. I see this going one of four ways. One is that...

A new TV is fine if you feel like replacing a perfectly good ATSC1 TV just to get ATSC3, and if you are willing to watch TV at an appointed time, including all the commercials. I am not willing to do any of that. Particularly the "appointment television" thing. I can't even begin to express how...

The big question for me is will the new devices be able to internally (without the use of a "cloud" server) convert AC4 audio to 5.1 AC3. If not, then I have zero interest in the new box. And I will also have zero interest if they can't decrypt encrypted broadcasts. Sorry, but it's my opinion...

I must say I find it a bit funny, or maybe ironic, that a ham radio operator would be posting this, given that many hams have held similar attitudes toward non-hams that dabbled in any kind of technology. I am old enough to remember how contemptuously some hams viewed CB radio operators back in...

First of all I wrote this yesterday and thought I had posted it but when I came in today it is still showing as a draft. Sorry! This is what I wrote yersterday: Thanks, I did not know that. I got it to come in enough to see the tone and bars with the overlay showing both the primary and...

Anyone know of any reason the CW feed on G19 4080V is now showing nothing but tone and bars during the primetime hours? There are six channels on that mux and the first two were still showing what they were supposed to be showing but the "C" through "F" channels are all tone and bars. I...

Also don't overlook obstructions such as trees - I assume you have taken that into account, but this week is the week in the fall when the sun closely tracks the satellite arc so if you know what time the sun is (almost exactly) behind the satellite you are interested in, you can observe whether...

Nah, while a few signals might require a 10 foot dish (such as the 16PSK ones) most will come in fine on a 8 foot dish IF you have a modern LNB and IF you have a modern digital receiver and IF you have at least some idea how to aim it, and how to set the skew and focal depth on the LNB. The...

Last night I only got color bars on 97°W and 89°W was completely gone, today they both seem to be gone. Have these moved to a new location and if so can anyone receive it reliably? If you can could you please pass along the settings that are working for you? Before anyone mentions it, I am...

Oh, that's interesting. I actually saw the above slide on Galaxy 16/21C so just assumed that was what was moving, but looking at it more closely I see it is the feed on Galaxy 16/13C (which I never even knew was there) that is moving. So maybe the primary feed on Galaxy 16/21C is staying where...

Yes, it appears to be almost exactly the same as the Galaxy 16 feed except the channels are in slightly different order. So you would need to use a tuner card, or record the stream and play it on something with more CPU/GPU power, may also have to use ffmpeg or similar to reencode the six...

Update: I tried using all the current G16 settings for G19 except the polarity and it appears to be working, although at the moment all of the channels appear to be showing the exact same program (middle of the night, so not too surprising). 4120V / 30000 DVB-S2 / 8PSK 9/10 FEC

Saw this tonight... If anyone knows the exact frequency, SR, FEC, etc. of the G19 feeds please post them (it says the polarity is vertical, so we know that at least). Also, I never realized this was considered "secondary" distribution; I wonder where the primary is?

The environmental movement in the United States is their own worst enemy because they have some stupid goals that alienate everyone else. They look at places like Europe or Japan or even China and they go, "Look at all those people riding bicycles or taking trains to work, we should make that...

Nope. By law it has to be outside the home. Do you really want lightning coming inside your house and then trying to escape through a screw on a wall plate, which probably is NOT grounded because they used a plastic electrical box or "mud ring"? There are electrical codes for a reason!

Yes that grounding block will work. Ideally you would put it on the outside of your home as close as you can to the electric meter and electrical service entrance to your home. Run a #10 or larger wire from from the grounding block to the thick copper ground wire coming out of your electrical...

My first question about any devices such as this one is, does it have the capability built into it to convert the AC4 audio used by many ATSC3 channels down to the much more compatible AC3? Can it do this WITHOUT needing to have an active Internet connection (in other words without having the...