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Thank you for your comments. I am thinking of trying one of those GT Media UHD receivers, too.

Hi all, I did not have a chance to return to the forum before now. Yes, I was referring to ham radio Amateur TV (ATV) digital signals in the DVB-S format. When I mentioned "a lot of people watching", indeed I meant other hams who are not yet able to get involved with two-way TV operation but...

LNBF: Low Noise Barking Fido. "His Master's Transponder".

Some of us ham radio operators are setting up our own digital TV stations, and one relatively inexpensive way to do so is with DVB-S equipment (but on land, not through satellites). $25 a receiver means we could get a lot of people watching our signals locally.

If I was doing this right now, switching between the satellite finder (TV-screen device) and your regular receiver would seem to just confuse me as I tried to remember what I had last tested. After stepping away and returning as kodaz suggested, maybe try this: When you received 100+ channels...

Hi all- I bought and installed an ESX242 dual-output C-band LNBF and an Ecoda 22 kHz switch, and everything is working well. The DSR-922 is happy on Digicipher and NTSC signals, and the X2 Premium is running the Ku dish/motor fine through the Ecoda switch as well as C-band through the other...

rv1pop- I do not want to hijack this topic, but I would like to know more about setting up an FTA dish while RV camping. Have you discussed or described your setup in any other posts or topics? Or, should I just start a new topic about it? Thanks.

My oddball "half-horizon" mount used a 4.5" OD pipe. When that unit went bad and I replaced it with a 3.5"-OD mount and dish, I bought two smaller sections of pipe and telescoped them together, with a couple of big Grade-8 nuts and bolts. It has worked fine for several years. Kraven, you could...

OK, thanks for the good ideas and comments on options.

Thank you for the detailed notes, Anola and madmadworld. The dish is the one in my avatar, but I posted a bigger picture below. My C-band LNB is indeed a Cal Amp, 25 degrees, bought in the late 1990s. The Ku on the 10' dish is an unknown one, maybe from SatMart around 1997-2000, 0.8 or 0.7 dB...

wallyhts- Thank you for the quick reply. I have looked a bit at the Map Master program/device and it does look interesting, especially the possibility of "naming" all of the satellites by their positions. It would be nice to have a readout on the front panel that displayed "97" or "21" (for...

Hi- I started with a 10-foot C-band dish system built from surplus components in 1995, and I upgraded it over the years (C/Ku, 4DTV, and a separate FTA receiver/dish/motor that I never got working right at first). Now I have a new FTA receiver, and I am thinking of upgrading and combining the...

Nice job!

I have seen the Sony 65" 4K display at Fry's stores here, and while it does indeed look very nice, you have to be no more than about three feet from the screen to see the difference in resolution. Relatively few people even today sit close enough to their 1080p displays to see that full...

Thank you all for the quick and helpful responses. The Satwork ST3688 does not have a digital output, though apparently Pacific or European versions did. I went so far as to research the STI processor chip in the unit and it does have a S/PDIF output pin, but nothing is connected to it and it...

Hi- I started tinkering with my satellite equipment in the last week, after doing nothing but listen to 4DTV music channels for the last few years. I reconnected my FTA receiver (Satwork ST3688) slaved to the 4DTV DSR-922's C-band connection and did a couple of blind scans of satellites (at 91...