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I'd assume with terrestrial 23cm a preamp is primarily going to be there to overcome long lossy coax runs although depending on the vintage of your receiver you'll have varying degrees of success with the difference between the noise figure of the preamp and the receiver. Just for putzing...

I didn't say anything about an audience ;) Anyway, if I had more real estate, I'd love to see what I'd be able to pick up with a 20' dish or something. I was seriously considering building an L-band antenna to try and pick up WorldSpace's AfriStar satellite (at 21 degrees East), which in...

Are they rotating between languages? Sounded like Russian or Ukrainian late last night. I also noticed that their webpage has buttons for Russian and Ukrainian as well.

TV DXing doesn't only refer to OTA. I'd consider any television reception beyond the intended broadcast area to be TV DXing. In this case, it would be the reception of the fringe areas of satellite beams and/or sidelobes. Extreme cases would be that guy in Brazil who went to great lengths to...

The $40 CA discount is available only by calling Satellite AV directly and placing an order. See the first post. You must call before 4pm PDT June 29th. Brian said a few posts ago they'll ship USPS so perhaps when you call you can request that. FedEx and UPS use customs brokers so they...

If you go to the SatelliteAV page and go through the steps to place an order, in the "order review" stage you'll see the following text: This is where you get the option to purchase an ADDITIONAL year. This implies that one year is included already. The part about your credit card company...

It's too bad SatelliteAV doesn't offer USPS as a shipping option. You could stick a couple microHDs in a medium flat rate priority box for $10.85, and it'd get to pretty much the whole country within two days including Saturdays whereas FedEx charges $14.50, takes up to five business days for...

The microHD includes one year of factory equipment warranty and telephone support, with the option to purchase another year for $29.99 at checkout. Note that many credit card companies extend the manufacturers warranty for an additional year for free as well. Check your card benefits and see...

If you've run out of slots in the box for new satellites, you can delete or rename the C band ones and program them to be Ku. I did this all the time with my old Pansat. Just go to the Antenna Setup screen and change the LNB type to standard, LNB frequency to 10750, delete all the old...

Now I'm hungry for some kimchi!

Working fine here in Firefox. Maybe try closing your browser, reopening, deleting cache and cookies and trying again will work.

I'm glad it's coming FedEx. For me, their ground service is one day quicker than UPS from California, and both leave packages when I'm not home if it's not signature required. USPS I find is the quickest of them all if UPS or FedEx quote three days or more.

It's too bad the Olympics aren't still on CBC. Their coverage was excellent and you could pick them up FTA with a BUD. CTV won the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics and they're not quite as good as the CBC and they're not on FTA. However, their coverage still beats NBC by a landslide. A...

Order placed! :) Now I can go to bed! Thanks for the special offer!

Haha looks like I'll be staying up until 3:01 AM tonight! Good practice for Field Day this weekend!

Yesterday evening they were showing an infomercial for the Bowflex or something like that and stopped it halfway though and I could see the OSD of their board. Then they started another infomercial and stopped it. They were obviously testing things out. Maybe they'll mess around with it again...

Hi Curious_clay and welcome to SatelliteGuys! Like most hobbies, FTA can be relatively inexpensive (under $50 for a whole setup if you don't mind used gear and you look in the right places) and the sky's the limit from there. There's three basic components you need: A dish, an LNB, and a...

I remember years ago there was this guy in Florida who leased a transponder for himself and ran his own personal teleport. He would show old TV shows and movies and it was ITC, and I think you could rent airtime off of him or just send in a VHS tape and he'd air it for a fee. He had one of...

Get a Simulsat and you can receive all of those satellites with one dish simultaneously!

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The best thing about my summers other than being off school was going on vacation. We would travel somewhere every year. At first, we went to the same place every other year renting a house on the beach for a couple weeks or so with other family members who lived far from us. The years in...

Sorry BVN isn't on 97W anymore and is showing it tonight at 9PM IIRC. Looks like TRT Turk 11960V 22000 has the best picture and sound quality. This Albanian woman really hurt my ears though!!

I know there's been interest here in the past so I thought I'd put a reminder out there that Eurovision is on this afternoon starting at 3pm Eastern (2100 CET). You can watch it live on 97W on a few channels including TRT, TVRi, BVN, and perhaps others. For those who have never seen or have...

Sorry I missed you too! We were unable to make it to the Sadoun get together time. Time flies when you're having fun! We made it to the W5KUB booth for the QRP kit drawing but missed the Gigaparts Yaesu HF rig and HT draw too. Would have liked to have caught the bicycle mobile forum for a...

I've seen this guy in years prior. Same high prices and same kind of dishes. I don't recall if it was the same person or not but a couple of years ago someone with a lot of 18"-20" dishes and DBS LNBs was telling people that they'd work for FTA reception. True, at the time you could get NASA...