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  • WELCOME TO THE NEW SERVER!

    If you are seeing this you are on our new server WELCOME HOME!

    While the new server is online Scott is still working on the backend including the cachine. But the site is usable while the work is being completes!

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  1. GrumpyGuy

    Capital Gains Tax and the Dishes You Left Behind

    Today I discovered something in the tax code that may be of interest to other satellite hobbyist / homeowners. In certain situations, the Feds demand capital gains tax when you sell a home:rant: Some home-related expenditures can be used to reduce the taxable gains, but others are forbidden...
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    BLSA, help request, database file downloads from SatcoDX

    Quote from the BLSA readme.txt (Version 1.1) file: "3) If you have access to DC2 and/or DVB databases in CSV format, save them on top of the dc2.csv and mpg.csv placeholders. Otherwise visit SatcoDX.com and download *.BLSA for the satellites you're interested in..." I've poured over...
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    Sadoun Shipped FAST

    I ordered a Gbox V3000 from Sadoun 3:30 PM yesterday. It arrived 19 hrs. later, at 10:30 AM today - 190 miles, via UPS Ground, to the back roads of Amish Country, two weeks before Christmas, in a snowstorm - I'm amazed. The box is darn cold. To avoid condensation I'm letting it warm up before...
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    CBC Radio on Anik F1R C, Encrypted

    Anik F1R C band (107.3°) 3970 H, SR 2620 As of yesterday afternoon, PowerVu encryption has been applied to the following CBC Radio feeds: 1TCEN/1TATL SIRIUS RADIO 3 SIRIUS RADIO ONE Bummer.
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    Identify this LNB

    Wish I had photographed the dish before tearing it down, but ... The LNB/feedhorn combination in the attached pic was mated to an off-white fiberglass dish measuring 1.26 meters wide X 1.36 meters tall with a short focal length. Until recently it was used to provide in-store music at a True...
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    GBox in a two-motor one-receiver system?

    Has anyone tried using a V3000 (or any other GBox) in a 2-motor setup? The goal is one receiver driving a small dish mounted on a SG2100, AND a BUD by way of a GBox V3000. What sort of switching arraignment are you using? I have heard it said that 22kHz switches typically can handle more...
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    Cubans risk raids to get satellite TV

    The Christian Science Monitor has published a report on black market satellite TV in Cuba. Similar stories hit the news wires from time to time, but this one includes a lot of specifics regarding the income of Cubans, going prices, fines, and jail time. The story only mentions Direct TV, and...
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    Channel Master Type 900 (.9 meter) Rehab

    After seeing the impressive results of dish projects by other Satguys (the Primestar fans in particular), I was inspired to undertake one of my own. Thanks for all the great ideas. Here's how it all came together ... I made a few calls to satellite system installers in the area to let them...
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