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  1. arlo

    TV/Speaker Mounts

    I don't know. I have a similar wall mount for my 55" Bravia. My Sony soundbar is mounted on the wall just under it. It has screw keyholes for that. Mine was from BestBuy. The shelf looks pretty cool. Wish they had them when I was shopping. You can pull the TV out from the wall, push it in...
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    Anybody have Starlink through Dish?

    I wasn't being pessimistic in my rant. Actually If I were able to I would have assisted in helping to find the root cause of the sudden decline of my broadband service. Instead they played Swaptronics for almost 2 years. Sending a guy out multiple, multiple times to check signal levels. Going to...
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    Anybody have Starlink through Dish?

    Well of course. I think that if a land-based Internet option is availiable, the general guidelines say that is probably your first consideration. The bed and bfast friends live way, way out in the sticks. There is not even dsl over copper. Before going Hughes they actually used a Verizon...
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    Anybody have Starlink through Dish?

    Don't know about Starlink resellers. But for the ka band broadband ISP's, I think it shows the slow decline in folks having alternatives. I turned some friends with a BnB on to Starlink some 2 years ago. Nothing but good stuff coming from them. With (who was it...Hughesnet?). Hunters would show...
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    Looking for New CNN Sat

    By chance does anyone know the exact name/type of the dipole feed used on the grid/helicone antennas? I'm also trying to get my feet wet receiving GOES. So far I made a 7 turn LHCP helical antenna for a Viasat dish as well as swapped the pin feed on a RHCP patch antenna to convert it to LHCP...
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    FCC Bans Foreign-Made Routers as a 'National Security Risk'

    I've noticed a recent surge of folks dumping their TP-Link wifi routers on the likes of FB marketplace and Craigs. I think it's cool that the RE guys who peek into bootloaders and firmware of these devices and find iffy, hmmm code alert people that the most intricate and sophisticated user...
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    Bouquet Editor for Edision

    Don't know cybes. Haven't ever really used an onboard editor. Probably because of the whole remote left-right-up-down thing. Using an old version of E-Channelizer and have been for years. The free version. I know some prefer the likes of Dreamboxeditor and the likes. Onboard editors just seem a...
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    Question about Ku Band LNBs

    I was amazed and at the same time wondering what good drugs the Icom crew were doing when they offered the matching power supply for the R8600. I person would think that things like...the big thing...providing clean DC for a basically DC to daylight receiver would not be an issue. Especially a...
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    Question about Ku Band LNBs

    The reply thing, dunno. A link that shows a bit of geekery and just plain time on your hands and wondering 'what if??' : Cooling the LNB Something to note is that the Bullseye has a TCXO. So chilling the unit below (or heating it) above the rated specs could give a bit of frequency drift and...
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    Question about Ku Band LNBs

    On a component level. From a few lnbf teardowns. Trying to look up datasheets for the individual IC's can be a crap shoot. Some have a gasfet, etc., transistor hoked to the antenna probes in the throat before the mixer IC. And some feed the H & V probes either into a switching circuit then into...
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    Question about Ku Band LNBs

    Haven't seen mention of the Othernet Bullseye lnbf. Seems to be the ku band lnbf choice of many moonbounce fans. Surprised you haven't heard of it. I thought it was cool that when Othernet was up that you didn't even need a dish. Anyway. Lot's of geekiness here: Bullseye
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    DISH Has Made it Impossible to be a VIP211k Owner

    So. Has anyone actually contacted a Dish rep. and asked "When I record something, can I replay it forever?" Better yet. Aren't there Dish reps. here on this site who can answer that? Seems like a lot of hemming and hawing going on still about a supposedly obsoleted receiver. "Is it the HDD?"...
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    Sony Is Ceding Control of TV Hardware Business To China's TCL

    That's some good reading, the Sony/TCL thing. I have a house fill of Sony TV's. Personally they never let me down/ When I buy anything with menu driven configurations. Sony hands down seems to beat them all. Besides the projection TV I bought years ago that went green screen and I missed out on...
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    5g interference

    This was very interesting to find. A NOAA weather station outside of Philly. Aimed most probably at 121W on the NOAAPort tp. Never really saw a shield on anything but microwave link dishes on towers. Pretty cool, huh!
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    Best 4x1 diseqc switch?

    All outdoors in a weatherproof Amazon cabinet. Sealed it up with weather stripping to keep the bugs and rain spatter out. All the coax is in cable glands. Haha. Buy once, cry once. Until a switch fries again. Fingers crossed.
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    Best 4x1 diseqc switch?

    Hi guys. You might have already seen my cabinet in the past. The Chieta 4X1 in the left panel only lasted a half year or so. But everyone said it was the one to get. And I did. The left pane was when everything was being finalized. The right pane is how it is today after you made me go out in...
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    Is Anyone Receiving Intelstat 35e ?

    Oh no! Here in N. PA on 34.5 W on a 12' dish w/o a plate I can get the AFN tp at around 3 dB. Any others, forget it. Depolarizer in, signal is quite a bit stronger but not great and lets me scan in 4132 with ease. Haven't tried ku band yet. But a baby dish won't hack it for c band I'm sure. 4178...
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    Comments from a newbie to FTA

    A deeper dive into EB's findings tells of the different tuners used in different revisions of the SF 8008. He also points out through testing that the latest does not exactly live up to what the mfg. states if actually can do. Although I don't have an 8008. TNAP does offer 3 different tuner...
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    Cold weather signal loss

    Yaaa. It was late. I meant compression fittings. The good ones.
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    Cold weather signal loss

    Not enough info to go on. Back when I was messing with DN lnbf's with fta receivers. I blew a receiver tuner after trying a dish triple. Found out that the current draw of DN vs FTA lnbf's was significantly higher mainly because they have more electronics in them. Switches, etc. I ran another...
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    DISH Has Made it Impossible to be a VIP211k Owner

    Hey! I'm kind of keeping track of this discussion. How people are getting surprises. Playing musical hard drives. Not really interested in how DN or DTV manages your stored content. If recordings are actually deleted. If the decryption keys for different recordings are deauthorized but the...
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    I know this will ruffle some feathers but,,,,

    My turn. YT using Smart Tube on an Amazon streamer makes most of the experience more pleasant with ads stripped and a settings menu that will confuse you until your learning curve catches up. After that, an occasional update fixes the Borg flux modulation adaptations. I'm still like I am with...
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    Using commercial receivers for recording?

    My apologies. At the moment multicast is way above me. But found a few things. In Windows to enable it's usage in the network stack you need to go into programs and features, additional Windows features. And use the drop down in MSMQ to find enable multicasting support. My router does support mc...
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    Using commercial receivers for recording?

    I was tempted to buy an eBay International Datacasting Superflex receiver solely for snooping satellite data. They also make the Novra series of data receivers used to NOAAPORT ground stations. I''m not sure if a particular router that is tailored for multicasting is necessary. And the apparent...
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    Using commercial receivers for recording?

    Hmm. Your LAN IP scope is 10.0.1.001-10.0.1.254. Devices on your network will fall in that range from your DHCP server in your router. So the Arris is able to be connected TO by typing in 10.0.1.129 in a web browser. Question. If you stream a channel from your Mio to VLC on a pc, etc. What is...