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I must say I find it a bit funny, or maybe ironic, that a ham radio operator would be posting this, given that many hams have held similar attitudes toward non-hams that dabbled in any kind of technology. I am old enough to remember how contemptuously some hams viewed CB radio operators back in...

Welcome to what we northerners like to call a January thaw! :biggrin

I am not running any antivirus that you have to pay for, but I am running uBlock Origin in my browser, so that may be what's blocking it.

Same here (on both counts).

Maybe you could answer a question for me - looking at your item #6, I could have used that to mount a Ku LNBF to a 6 foot dish I picked up that had originally been used for C-band. But at the time I didn't know where to get one that would have been shipped in a timely manner (less than six...

No, in order to show to the world what is going on up there you only need a video stream. The networks on earth can retransmit that to they viewers if they wish. How do you think video from the ISS gets shown on NASA TV? They aren't operating a TV station on the ISS; they are sending a video...

If you are talking about a moon colony, I would think that initially it would have such a small footprint that it would just use Internet-based video. In other words the colonists would use something like a Roku or FireTV or AppleTV, or just watch video on their phones or tablets, assuming they...

What you need is to set up a satellite backend system using one or more DVB-S2 tuner cards (or USB connected tuners, but I have heard they are prone to overheating so I recommend the cards). There is a somewhat dated article here that more or less explains the process...

Well, sur Well, sure, you told them what the costs COULD be. But they don't necessarily HAVE to be that high. I don't have the time to do it right this second but if you search on Amazon and/or eBay, unless prices have skyrocketed in the last couple of years you can buy DVB-S2 compatible...

You "speakth" YOUR "truth".

I wish we could downvote replies like in Reddit; I'd be doing a lot of downvoting on some of the replies you've received already, particularly from those who are ASSUMING that you are trying to get pay TV for free. But that said, you mentioned the satellite dish you have, but gave no details so...

I think you are wrong about that. I have two of those and the Channel Master brand is embossed on the back. Those are old PrimeStar dishes and they are great for Ku reception.

The mounting pole does NOT double as a ground, at least not according to code. I think part of the reason is that you typically paint the pole and/or bury it in concrete, so it really does not make good contact with a ground. What you should do instead is ground the pole using a ground wire...

Maybe, but just as a hypothetical question, would you buy something from someone that engages in heavy-handed censorship, and who has banned you or a friend of yours on a whim, for no apparent good reason, and with no path to reinstatement?

Yep, it happened to me too. My suspicion, based on a few things he has said in the past, is that he is a very religious person and therefore has a very authoritarian worldview. If he goes to church, it's probably one of those where the guy in charge preaches that if you question the church's...

Quite some time ago I found this article which explains what is going on, and how to use ffmpeg to get full 5.1 audio in programs you have recorded. If you happen to be running satellite tuner cards and Tvheadend you can even do it in real time, which they explain in a different article. I...

Unfortunately the problem with mounting anything on wood, especially unfinished wood, is that it can warp. If you are lucky it will never warp enough to cause a problem. If you are unlucky you'll need to re-aim the dish a couple of times a year or more to compensate for the warping. This is...

It's not uncommon at all to have breakers with total amperage much higher than the main breaker. The assumption is that not all circuits will be in use at the same time, and that of those that are in use, few or (usually) none will be drawing full capacity. The main breaker is there to prevent...

Pro tip: If you know how to do it safely, pre-drill any holes they will need to run their cable and pull a string from wherever you want the cable modem to be to the hole where they will bring in their cable (usually right next to the electric meter, since by law they are supposed to use a...

I'm not spending any more money on satellite equipment until I see what happens to C-band, but if I were going to buy a new PC tuner card today I might consider this one, particularly if I could buy it from a North American seller: 8 Tuner TV Card - DD Max SX8 Basic (4/8) - DVB-S2/DVB-S2X Full...

I want to win a Free K1Plus STB

As I have aged I have noticed three things that would cause me to change my viewing habits, particularly if I were still watching "appointment" TV: 1) I have a much greater tendency to fall asleep in the middle of a show, particularly if it's boring. Maybe several times! 2) Some programs these...

Ah, okay. That makes sense. There is probably a technological workaround for this (so he could continue to use his existing remote but have it control a frontend program) but if so I don't know what it is offhand.

I get what you are trying to do but you may be thinking about this the wrong way. If the idea is that you want all the satellite channels you can receive to be viewable on all the TV's in you home, and that you can select the channel to view from a cable-like guide interface, then here is an...

If a receiver can save a recording to a networked share as a transport stream file, in other words, if the file has a .ts extension, then some media players can play the file before it is finished recording, giving you the capability of near real time viewing. Kodi can definitely do this, and I...