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    It got dark

    Thats pretty sick. It got darker here (Albuquerque) than I thought it would, but it didn't get very dark during the one back in October either (and we were right under it!)
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    Getting into HAM in 2024?

    I just did the online practice tests until I couldn't see straight, passed my General pretty easy that way. I have an IC-706mkii, MFJ Versatuner, and a big horizontal loop fed with ladder line for HF, and a J pole built outta junk for 2M. With the loop and 100 watts I can talk to most of the...
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    What Happened to Everybody?

    I'm also a rabid audiophool and have been wheelin' and dealin' stereo gear, I have way too many speakers, amps, etc. I'm selling underused/redundant gear so I can buy that MiniDSP Flex 8 HTx to use as my preamp/eq/DAC/active crossover. I'm also putting together an off grid solar system so that's...
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    Need help receiving PBS on 99W with my setup

    Don't give up! This one is tricky. Ironically I finally got it when I motorized my 90cm dish.
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    Invacom QPH-031 Ku LNB

    I think I have one in the shed. Came on one of the scrap picked dishes I got back in October
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    What Happened to Everybody?

    Still here, just fell asleep. I ought ta chase feeds, I put that Geosat 90 on a motor......
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    Satellite hail damage

    The hail damage on that my 7.5 Winegard looks worse than that and it works just fine.
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    Winegard? 7.5 score

    It seems to work as good as the 8.5 spun dish despite being smaller. Still got a little tweaking to do but this one is a keeper. Not worried about the 5G cuz it’s behind a house with a pro panel roof
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    Winegard? 7.5 score

    I have it most of the way up. That nice light reflector was easy to toss on the mount by myself. That bit of metal in the center is a burned out “NO DUMPING” sign i pilfered out of the recycle pile at work, the paint on it is drying now……
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    Winegard? 7.5 score

    The 90cm dish came with a 7.5 ft Winegard mesh dish lol. Somebody junked their FTA setup and I grabbed it.
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    Winegard? 7.5 score

    I transplanted that sg 2100 to my 90cm Geosat and it works great for being on a wobbly crooked pole lol, and I tested that actuator that came with the mesh dish and it works great! Looks to have a hall sensor and a limit switch. I don’t know about the polorotor feed, my vbox doesn’t have...
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    Winegard? 7.5 score

    Found this and 90cm dish with an SG-2100 on it “free for scrap” on CL. The mount says Winegard, feed cover says KTI, has a nice Chaparral feed/rotor with C and Ku LNBs, actuator is present, but I think I’m missing a plate that goes in the middle of the 4 sections of dish
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    DIRECTV's 29th Birthday is coming!

    I remember back in ‘96 when my dad installed an RCA DirecTV dish and receiver, I was like 6 or 7 and seeing Cartoon Network’s early days was pretty awesome. We recorded a lot of ppv movies to VHS back then…….
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    8.5’ Spun Aluminum Buttonhook Dish

    Necro thread alert! I have been enjoying this dish for over 2 years, I did get a vbox to move it but my actuator is crude with its 3 magnets on the main wheel, reed switch, and NO limit switches. Let’s just say it loses counts. Anyways a few weeks ago I decided to move it to the east to make...
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    ASC1 and new 36 inch Venture ball

    I’d hate to get a new one and the counts be off. Mine doesn’t hold a count but it has 3 magnets and a reed switch, “good enough” for analog I guess. It’s a big beefy actuator and works well otherwise
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    ME TV

    Still can’t get it as of last night, but I had some disecq switch/coax trouble that I fixed
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    ME TV

    I couldn’t get it last weekend, but I’ve been tweaking the dish. I get everything else just fine, including Decades (a touchy one for me) Gonna check when I get home. 8.5 footer here
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    OTHER Ku Dish Farm Advice?

    I’m down to 2 Ku dishes right now, I had a farm with 3 more directv dishes but for some reason right now I can’t get anything with dishes under 90cm, and I also did a sidecar Ku lnbf on the c band dish, but now that doesn’t work anymore……
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    My New Dish Farm

    Fun stuff. The wind did a number on a couple of my dishes this spring. The 90 cm was pointed towards the house and the sidecar Ku lnbf on the 9 footer gets a whole lotta nothing now. I parked the 90cm on 103w and I think I’ll put the 1m on 125w when I get home……
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    OTHER Help With dish alignment.

    That’s a funky dish. Is there any published info on the LNB/F? Is it an uplink dish with a transmitter? Might be as simple as the local oscillator frequency being wrong on the receiver. My 1 meter Hughesnet dish with its stock LNB worked at 10760 mhz just like a standard Ku LNBF. Maybe your...
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    Orby Channels Active Again?

    Yeah happens for me on Hunt every once in a while.
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    I'll Need A New TV Soon

    I gotta shop for a smaller tv to wall mount behind/above my RCA console to use with my FTA stuff. I may hit up the thrifts/CL as I am allergic to “”””smart”””” TVs, and I don’t care about 4K especially on a >42” TV.
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    5G US C-band launch

    I’m still skeptical about mm waves being harmful, especially with the low power they intend on running them at. My horizontal loop for HF is probably more dangerous than any 5g and I haven’t fried any birdies or BBQ’d any cats yet
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    Anyone Need AN FBI Command Center???

    Ehhh the dishes are nice but there’s no bathroom. There are racks to put DSRs in lol My wifi used to be Inconspicuous_van, now it’s a joke about 5g…….
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    Satellite dish types

    I don’t know about pigeons breeding in there but I do have a plastic cap on the LNBF to keep wasps/hornets/yellow jackets out And in case anyone is wondering I posted a picture of my dish turned all the way East and the cats got on it lol No kitties were microwaved during my FTA tenure :)
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