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Whatever the reason is, I have been in the hobby since '07 and I can't recall a time where less unencrypted programming was available. Hoping for the return of good times soon.

As I look around the cities I pass through, I see a BUD on maybe one out of 200 homes. I would not be surprised if only one or two on average actually work. This has always been the true FTA loophole. Because our numbers are so tiny, it's hard for the providers to justify expensive encryption...

Hi, I put a a five foot length of 6 inch Birdview pole over a 3.5 inch pole and it has held up for years. There is concrete in the smaller inner pole, and in between the inner pole and the BV pole. I think the sheer mass of the pole and concrete filling helps it stay there in the wind. If...

Last Sunday, season opener, 125 Ku PBS - in HD. I would never have expected to enjoy this series - so much talking and a lot of aristocratic nonsense, but I think it's for the same reason other shows make it - there is a chemistry between the characters.

Here in California, if you want a day laborer, you just go to your nearest Home Depot and a bunch of hard working Spanish speaking fellows are there for cheap. If you have all the tools and a pickup truck, you might be able to get it done that way.

Yes. Just explain it to her. Make your case logically and carefully. It will work because as we all know, women are very very logical and cool headed. They never disrespect a fact just because they enjoy disrespecting the messenger. Right. Let us know how well careful logic works out

It is a sad fact of human existence that a lot of people will believe gossip that's whispered as factual truth, and doubt the actual truth said openly. It's also true that when some women get tired of a man, they assume he never has a good idea, never has good intentions and never does...

I don't use a compass. I think all you really need is an inclinometer, although a lot of guys misread them as I did once. A compass, adjusted for magnetic deviation, is useful to get the general direction of due south, but probably not necessary. If you bring your receiver and little tv out to...

Right, when it comes to Ku and a USALS motor, the designation of due or true south is almost irrelevant. Using that kind of setup, once you set it for your latitude and longitude, and you move the dish to the satellite you want, the motor has already accounted for the fact that your...

some time ago I saw a big dish disguised under what looked like a patio umbrella. I wonder if you could use that material sold in Home Depot that is thin and used for weed control. If you have a spot that you could put a picnic table - the kind with the hole in the middle, and you sewed up a...

I am getting extreme pixellation on both ME and This on the 101w. Unwatchable. Can't get them with Birdview and Manhattan here in Southern Cal

I commend you for so carefully concealing your critical national security role. The cover of an FTA hobbyist is perfect. Little do your unsuspecting neighbors know that you are up late at night monitoring al Qaeda telephone calls and the Iranian nuclear program. Of course you no longer have...

I usually and still do dislike the long list of technological features that are typical of newly marketed receivers. Often they are ambiguous and even misleading. The things that interest satellite hobbyists most are 1. How many signal types can the box pick up? 2. Is the receiver...

I want my Micro HD. No but really, I am pretty well set up. Don't give it to me. I would rather see someone get it who really wants and needs it.

I think reading some of these childhood stories is as good as winning a receiver. Maybe better.

My childhood was magical. It's the only way I can describe it, and that doesn't really. I can remember when I was maybe eight or nine. A group of us began reading Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson all at the same time. We kids talked about the story. We made wooden swords and fixed up...

Viewsat Xtreme, and let me say my infatuation with belonging to the eye patch crowd was an illustration of my human faults in play. Still in that questionably legal frame of mind, I went with Viewsat Ultra, Sonicview HD and Viewsat 9000 HD. That was when I was on the high seas trying to...

Had bad, freezing, crashing luck with S10, good luck with Manhattan. As far as Chinese companies selling directly from their factory and cutting out the supply chain, that is an inevitable and predictable result of sending the world's manufacturing to Asia. Thank all the unpatriotic...

More than the money, I hated the paying deadline every month. It was always pressure for half the month as the billing date approached. I already have plenty of stress at work and don't need more. when I did subscribe, I watched maybe a dozen channels out of the hundreds offered. Now I...

I had bought an S10 new and had all sorts of problems with it. The most problematic were the freezing-crashing-rebooting boogie that some have referred to. I returned it and went with a Manhattan instead. Even though the receiver looks like it must have been manufactured by the same people, I...

As my friend who works on Verizon fiber says " Fiber is cheap, easy to work with, and lasts forever" The bandwidth is so huge on fiber that they can cram nearly anything on there. I love my satellite system (C/Ku 55.5w to 139w), and I get plenty of HD and a lot of different shows off of...

It appears to be a large, offset dish, sort of a larger version of a Directv or Dish dish. It isn't designed to track the arc, but to stay firm on one satellite. That would make sense for an internet link. On an offset dish, the whole thing twists as it tracks off of true south. This dish is...

I tried putting my dish on backwards. I got an unknown signal until I realized I was picking up my neighbors going at it.

Had a strong windstorm once. Both my Birdview solid and my one meter Winegard had no signal. The wind had twisted the BV mount on the pole. I don't tighten down too hard on it because I couldn't get the footing deep. I marked it and after the wind moved it, I lined it back up with the...

I suppose when they first envisioned the History Channel, they thought of the so so many scripts they could use, derived from the incredible history of the world. Maybe they miscalculated some when they eventually figured they had to pop for all those period costumes, props and stages. It's...