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you could put an amp/preamp on the ota line before it hits the diplexers

So a good long while back, in the 2007-2008 time frame while I was living at my childhood home, I got the idea to see what I could pick up with an old Primestar dish we still had installed from back when we actually had Primestar. I basically just put on an LNB and got a really cheap receiver...

Have any of you guys tried doing PC based FTA remotely? Since I've moved, I can't put up a dish for FTA due to neighborhood rules, however my brother is now living at my former home and I have an old Primestar dish up there. I'd been toying with the idea of putting up a second, motorized dish as...

oh man, where were you on Friday, I just had a buddy come stay the weekend with me from Atlanta!

I'm willing to bet they're not backups. The big one is probably provided by their credit card processor and is dedicated to that only. One is probably for internet access, and the other..maybe a backup? You mentioned a restaurant, is it separate from the park in that the park has it's own POS...

They're cold blooded, and you've got a great view of the sky for sunbathing there :)

So I know that the public NASA feeds are up there and everyone knows about them, but those are the feeds after the video is downlinked to Houston, produced, and reuplinked. If anyone pays attention, you'll notice that the shuttle uses Ku for downlinking video to Houston. I haven't been able to...

I think it's more of the other side of that equation..how sensitive is the receiving equipment?

I'm hoping to squeeze about 300' out of a nice run to a motorized dish sometime this summer. I might go for RG11 for that though.

He is misconstruing the term exclusive use/control. Exclusive control does not mean "not covered by HOA covenants", it means a private area like your back yard, and area that is not shared with any other residents. Non-exclusive areas in terms of OTARD refer to areas such as breezeways, front...

Ok, so in that case you need a larger Starchoice style dish that is bigger than even the Dish 1000 or DirecTV Slimline, so that throws out all apartment customers and some HOA customers. Plus, DirecTV and Dish already have more HD channels + the SD channels. We've already seen what happens when...

You have to find space to lease though. I'd be willing to bet that leasing DBS space from Echostar would be cost prohibitive--they aren't going to give anyone better terms than Dish, and Dish has millions of subscribers to pay for the satellite time, which is a fixed cost regardless of the...

Why would anyone start a new service with old equipment? No one is going to provide funding for that kind of model. The shoestring skyvision hacked together method isn't going to work for a real, legitimate threat to DirecTV, Dish, or Comcast. The market only really has room for one or two...

The current cable and satellite companies have no exclusivity agreements with the major program providers. I'm sure HBO, et al would be more than happy to sell their programming to anyone who can pay their asking price. The big barrier to entry is infrastructure. Satellites are not cheap, and...

It would work if the center conductor is steel.

Maybe try a really strong magnet?

This is the mount: http://www.satelliteguys.us/attachment.php?attachmentid=34098&d=1234653183 how would I get that motor involved in this mount?

The round 1m. I'm not sure how I'd mount it. For it to be worth putting it on a motor I'd need to move it anyway, where it is now I can only see from 97w to 91w

just by browsing lyngsat, I think C-band will have a lot more stuff that I want to watch. No HD for me right now, but that will definitely be a future upgrade. The BUD is at my dad's house, it would have to be disassembled and moved to my house. I could probably take a car battery out and see...

My spring/summer project Ok, so over the winter thanks to turbosat, I hooked up a fortec mercury II to my old primestar dish and I've been bitten by the FTA bug. This spring and summer I've got a project I hope to get started on and want to get some advice. You guys might remember my very first...

can you see it from the road or are they just being jerks about it?

I would love to get into that. There is a public wildfeed site but it's kind of awkward to navigate and the design is poor and somewhat unreadable. Hopefully you guys get something worked out where non-hackers can either apply or regularly get added to the feed forum!

More specifically, it's a 'wave' like that on the flat map because the orbit is inclined. If it were orbiting around the equator, then it would be a straight line for example

I don't know for sure, but I would think that they'll probably be in the same place the rest of the weekend as they were yesterday. Don't take that as the gospel though. CSS doesn't have an HD channel that I know of, so it's very likely that CBS produced the games for CSS yesterday and will just...

Tomorrow and Saturday are on CBS College Sports and CBS, respectively. I'd assume CBS produced the broadcast for CSS and they'll be in the same spot feed wise the rest of the weekend. By the way, Go Blazers :P