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I am on the bus back from the Dish Network Uplink Center in Cheyenne, WY. And what a great tour I had of this amazing facility.
Thanks go to Robert my guide who took me and my group through the uplink.
Unfortunately pictures inside the building are not allowed but you can take all the photos you want outside the building.
I also took some HD video, which you can see below. This is one amazing place.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_scYwvROe0"]YouTube - Dish Network Uplink Footage[/ame]
I was there in time for todays uplink, and when it happened I was surrounded by Uplink employees and engineers. Within moments of the uplink happening I got Digiblur's uplink report and the Dish folks enjoyed passing my phone around checking out the uplink activity. They were amazed at how quickly the report was sent out.
This year on the uplink I was able to see things that we were not shown the last time I was here, including down the stairs where the signals come in and are encoded. Thats an amazing room and the wiring job down there is a 1st class job. The Dish Network uplink center has enough cables in it to circle around the earth 6 times!
While in the room where the wall of monitors was they actually had an issue, one of the audio channels went down. We got to see them spring to work and fix the issue in seconds.
We even got to go into the spacecraft operations center, where we were given a nice tour. The head of the department gave a very good walkthrough of the operations. He also knew who I was and picked on me because of something I posted a few weeks ago where I said that the uplink centers clocks are set to eastern time. While this is true for most of the facility things like spacecraft operations operate on Zulu time.
Most at the uplink knew who I was and all said they use SatelliteGuys. (I find that very cool, these guys LOVE your feedback and a few admitted that there are times there are issues and they learn about them on SatelliteGuys first. Also passing through the uplink center I saw our site on a number of monitors. This was also VERY cool!
I got to ask a lot of questions and all the folks there were happy to answer my questions. In fact I would say while I was there they made me feel like I was home and part of the family. That means a lot to me and it was a very enjoyable time!
Below are most of the pictures I took outside. The photos were shot with an Apple iPhone and came out well for a camera phone.
Thanks again to everyone at the uplink center for the warm welcome and the excellent tour!
Thanks go to Robert my guide who took me and my group through the uplink.
Unfortunately pictures inside the building are not allowed but you can take all the photos you want outside the building.
I also took some HD video, which you can see below. This is one amazing place.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_scYwvROe0"]YouTube - Dish Network Uplink Footage[/ame]
I was there in time for todays uplink, and when it happened I was surrounded by Uplink employees and engineers. Within moments of the uplink happening I got Digiblur's uplink report and the Dish folks enjoyed passing my phone around checking out the uplink activity. They were amazed at how quickly the report was sent out.
This year on the uplink I was able to see things that we were not shown the last time I was here, including down the stairs where the signals come in and are encoded. Thats an amazing room and the wiring job down there is a 1st class job. The Dish Network uplink center has enough cables in it to circle around the earth 6 times!
While in the room where the wall of monitors was they actually had an issue, one of the audio channels went down. We got to see them spring to work and fix the issue in seconds.
We even got to go into the spacecraft operations center, where we were given a nice tour. The head of the department gave a very good walkthrough of the operations. He also knew who I was and picked on me because of something I posted a few weeks ago where I said that the uplink centers clocks are set to eastern time. While this is true for most of the facility things like spacecraft operations operate on Zulu time.
Most at the uplink knew who I was and all said they use SatelliteGuys. (I find that very cool, these guys LOVE your feedback and a few admitted that there are times there are issues and they learn about them on SatelliteGuys first. Also passing through the uplink center I saw our site on a number of monitors. This was also VERY cool!
I got to ask a lot of questions and all the folks there were happy to answer my questions. In fact I would say while I was there they made me feel like I was home and part of the family. That means a lot to me and it was a very enjoyable time!
Below are most of the pictures I took outside. The photos were shot with an Apple iPhone and came out well for a camera phone.
Thanks again to everyone at the uplink center for the warm welcome and the excellent tour!
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I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Who says dinner or lunch has to be the only good meals of the day?
Honey butter grits with scrambled eggs and grilled boneless pork ribs on flakey biscuits washed down with cranberry juice.
Honey butter grits with scrambled eggs and grilled boneless pork ribs on flakey biscuits washed down with cranberry juice.
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Breakfast Quesadillas. Grilled flour tortilla filled with scrambled eggs, hash browns, chopped green chile, cheddar & Jack cheese and bacon. Coffee.
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Susan Saint James, Emmy-Winning Star of ‘Kate & Allie’ and ‘McMillan & Wife,’ Dies at 80
Susan Saint James, the Emmy-winning actress who starred in "Kate & Allie," died Monday after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She was 80.
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