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  1. K

    See no East, Hear no East, Speak no East

    This summer, I put up my dish with a motor. During that time everything went pretty smooth although I'm not particularly pleased with the design of my dish mount. But I made it work and I was able to get my TSS (G25) pretty well. I moved West and tried G10R and that worked well and then went...
  2. K

    Lyngsat Lite

    I got this cool program SnagIt installed on my work PC today, so I was putting it through its paces. I decided to created my personal view of Lyngsat's chart for what's really available to me as a Ku user here in Southern Manitoba.. talk about shrinkage :p
  3. K

    HD 4:2:2, CPU killer

    Can anyone tell me if displaying a 4:2:2 HD feed takes significantly more horsepower than a 4:2:0 HD feed? I'm just trying to do some future planning to see if there's any benefit in getting an HD FTA box versus upgrading my PC. If my existing PC can take care of 4:2:2 SD feeds, and I run...
  4. K

    New terminology confusion

    In some of the recent talk about future receiver features (e.g. Passion), there are wish lists of features compiling. I'm getting confused as to which technologies pertain to North America. I believe DVB-S has traditionally referred to non-HD MPEG-2. Now throw in some newer terms such as...
  5. K

    Camel's back breaking?

    I’m reading about the loss of The Tube. I didn’t have FTA equipment when it was on Ku and I don’t have C-band now so I never actually got to experience this channel but I can see that is was popular. Also within the last two weeks, we lost GolTV to encryption which was a big blow to others...
  6. K

    Too many breaks in the line - bad idea?

    Currently I just have one cable run into the house, but I've ordered a 4x4 multiswitch for my Invacom quad. I want to run 4 cables into the house, so I'm ready to add more receivers over the winter. My original plan was to run each cable just inside the basement wall into a quad grounding...
  7. K

    Shortening azimuth range, any benefit?

    After many months of my dish sitting on the ground unused (shame on me), I finally got back on track and bought an Invacom quad and a SG2100. My friend and I are planning to put it up on my garage by next week :D Interesting though that on the very first page of the Motek manual, it explains...
  8. K

    New Moteck 1.8M motor

    Anyone planning to beta test this baby once it's available? Not something that I could ever take advantage of due to my small yard, but sounds very interesting all the same.
  9. K

    Shuttle launch tonight

    Anyone going to be watching on NASA? Launch scheduled at 8:47 p.m. EST. This is my first opportunity to catch it on NASA. I hope I'll be around tonight to check it out. Sounds like it might get postponed because of wind conditions though.
  10. K

    1080p; can't get my head around it

    This isn't a difficult question, but it's bugging me because I can't say I confidently understand the answer. I see now that 1080p TVs are becoming more common. If you take a PCI or USB DVB device and use it tune in a HD signal, how do that feed get displayed/converted to a PC/TV monitor...
  11. K

    KUIL on smaller dish

    I was reading this thread about how a certain saavy FTA'er got KUIL (Fox Beaumont) to work on a DirecTV dish with a Ku LNB. I have a friend who is a huge Cowboys fan and he doesn't always catch the games with his local cable service. I'm thinking to offer to put together a cheap system...
  12. K

    Fallen Angel

    Has Angel One on Echo7 been locked up? I just flipped it on recently and it says bad/scrambled channel. NASA seems to be fine, so I don't think it's a reception issue.
  13. K

    I think I killed my receiver

    I was working tonight to figure out why my Dish500 wouldn't pull in FTA from both 110 and 119. I figured out that one of my LNBs was bad so I replaced it with a spare I had. Everything seemed back on track. As I worked, I made sure to have the receiver off every time I was plugging or...
  14. K

    Receiver needs to be cycled to get signal

    I moved my 90cm dish from IA-5 to G11 last night (my first unassisted move). I have it running into 4-to-1 diseqc that also feeds Echo7 and Echo8. Since the move I've noted a strange behaviour. Any feeds that I pull in on G11 display fine. If I move to GolTV, it comes in okay but if I go...
  15. K

    How much FTA equipment can I get..

    for the equivilant price that these fools are spending on this equipment. Honestly, I think these people need a new hobby, like FTA. They could get a lot of nice equipment for those prices. ;)
  16. K

    Deleting channels on Pansat 3500S

    Is there a way to delete all the channels for a specific satellite on a Pansat 3500S? When I go into the delete menu it seems that the only option is to delete and confirm for each channel OR highlight each individual channel and then delete. My friend says his 2500A has a pull down on delete...
  17. K

    No more pretending

    I'm happy to say that within two days I will have actual FTA equipment. I bought a Pansat 3500S locally a few weeks ago that came with a diseqc 4X1, and on Wednesday my 1M Gospell dish I bought on Ebay will arrive. I've decided to postpone getting a motor considering I wasn't even planning...
  18. K

    Evil HOA President

    This is a bit off topic, but I thought some of you would get a kick out of it. We just watched the animated movie "Over the Hedge" and thought it was pretty funny. If you haven't seen it yet, it's good for a few laughs. Particularily because one of the main villains in the movie is the...
  19. K

    Quality keeps spiking to 0%

    I'm confused. I hooked up my Pansat 3500SD to my old 20" dual the other day. The guy I bought the receiver from was hacking signal, so I flashed it back to factory and then went from there. I set the Diseqc numbers for what LNBs I though they were running to. All his channels were still in...
  20. K

    MicroKu option

    I'm moving into FTA at a full-bore turtle pace. My old Bell dish has now been repointed to 110/119 for getting AngelOne, NASA and GolTV. I picked up a Pansat 3500SD last night but I have to flash it back to factory before I hook it up. I'm waiting for Spring to get a proper dish/motor (crappy...
  21. K

    World's fastest blind scan receiver

    Stumbled upon this link recently. I know this is other market equipment, but perhaps a sign of things to come? "The fastest Blind Scan FTA receiver worldwide, e.g. will blind scan any Ku-band satellite over NZ within 70 seconds or less" Note: this is not from a company site, so the claim...
  22. K

    Overscan on HDTV output

    I did a quick search on this, but I don't think I saw anything that addresses this question. Later this year (or possibly next year) when our rec room is finished, I want to upgrade our old RCA tube TV to something newer and high-def compatible. I have a DLP projector already, but I found...
  23. K

    PCI card confusion

    I'm in the process of ordering some FTA equipment (Fortec receiver, large dish, motor etc.) but in the meanwhile I'm thinking to buy a cheap PCI card solution to get started. I want to repoint my recently cancelled ExpressVu dish over to 110/119 to try and get GolTV, NASA and some audio on my...
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