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This is a request for assistance in locating an outlet for a second tuner for my AZBox Premium.
I have emailed several requests to the AZBox Premium sellers and home site, but have not received a response back from any of them as of yet.
If any you have any information of where to acquire a second DVB-S2 tuner for the AZBox, please post here or send me a PM if you like.
I have one 1.2 M Geosat Pro dish set up with a DG-380 motor and am planning on installing a second one so that I can fully test the operation of the AZBox Premium.
I hope to find one before winter sets in and get my second dish set up, but I may have to wait. Thank you everyone for any notification in this regard.
RADAR
I have emailed several requests to the AZBox Premium sellers and home site, but have not received a response back from any of them as of yet.
If any you have any information of where to acquire a second DVB-S2 tuner for the AZBox, please post here or send me a PM if you like.
I have one 1.2 M Geosat Pro dish set up with a DG-380 motor and am planning on installing a second one so that I can fully test the operation of the AZBox Premium.
I hope to find one before winter sets in and get my second dish set up, but I may have to wait. Thank you everyone for any notification in this regard.
RADAR
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The software for the second tuner just went out in the last release.
Looks like they are getting ready for it.
Looks like they are getting ready for it.
Janz,
Allow me to get one ordered and installed and tested. Then we will know for sure.
I cannot see a purpose to owning this box if it doesn't support everything it is advertised to. I don't mind being a guinnea pig in this hobby, hopefully I can find out some good information for all of us.
If it turns out to be negative, then I can save others the expense. If it turns out positive, then everyone can jump on the option as they wish.
We don't truly know until someone attempts it, right?
I might as well give it a try! I am so pleased with this box so far, even with a few quirks, that I might as well continue.AcWxRADAR
The software for the second tuner just went out in the last release.
Looks like they are getting ready for it.
I have software 2880 release (version). I have options in the menus to select tuner A or tuner B or both, even though I only have one tuner installed.
Therefore, the framework is present as far as I can tell. Hopefully with the new, second tuner it will function. It is supposed to. I guess I will find out.
AcWxRADAR
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What a great surprise will be that tuner for instance you could buy a Pansat DVB-S2 tuner and with an applet could work. That would be fanstatic.
What goos is to Dream
Janz,
Allow me to get one ordered and installed and tested. Then we will know for sure.
I cannot see a purpose to owning this box if it doesn't support everything it is advertised to. I don't mind being a guinnea pig in this hobby, hopefully I can find out some good information for all of us.
If it turns out to be negative, then I can save others the expense. If it turns out positive, then everyone can jump on the option as they wish.
We don't truly know until someone attempts it, right?
AcWxRADAR
What a great surprise will be that tuner for instance you could buy a Pansat DVB-S2 tuner and with an applet could work. That would be fanstatic.
What goos is to Dream
I suppose you could remove the A tuner and put it in the B slot, and see if that worked. It might be a predictor of things to come, if it does.
USB ideas:
Maybe for $35, not $200, like some! . :rant:
Not gonna happen, of course. Pansat wouldn't want to supply a part to anyone but their customers.
. . . just thinking out loud . . . -
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oops, another thought -
How many USB ports does the AZbox have?
There are ATSC USB tuners.... -
Well, assuming the Pansat 9200 S2 blind scan tuner were really hot (no clue), wouldn't it be interesting if you could get a USB interface for it?
Maybe for $35, not $200, like some! . :rant:
Not gonna happen, of course. Pansat wouldn't want to supply a part to anyone but their customers.
. . . just thinking out loud . . . -
edit:
oops, another thought -
How many USB ports does the AZbox have?
There are ATSC USB tuners.... -
I suppose you could remove the A tuner and put it in the B slot, and see if that worked. It might be a predictor of things to come, if it does.
Brent,
That is not a bad idea! I might try this. The tuner modules are easily moved around. The ribbon cable might even reach to the B port withought moving the tuner card itself. I think there was enough freedom in the cable to do so.
From what others have been fearful of, is will it acknowledge when BOTH tuners are in place and be able to address them both with the current software (image). I am betting that it will be OK.
RADAR
Well, assuming the Pansat 9200 S2 blind scan tuner were really hot (no clue), wouldn't it be interesting if you could get a USB interface for it?
Maybe for $35, not $200, like some! . :rant:
Not gonna happen, of course. Pansat wouldn't want to supply a part to anyone but their customers.
. . . just thinking out loud . . . -
edit:
oops, another thought -
How many USB ports does the AZbox have?
There are ATSC USB tuners.... -
Do I hear some reptilian mind gears churning here!
:RADAR
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America’s Fastest-Growing EV State Isn’t California—Not by a Long Shot
New data shows electric vehicle adoption is increasingly driven by state policies, electricity prices and charging access—not federal incentives
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The number-one US state for EV growth, according to the June 22 Yardi report?
Oklahoma.
It has no ZEV mandates and "minimal" incentives, Yardi says, but also has cheap electricity, high multi-car household rates (so, for example, a non-Lightning Ford F-150 pulls their trailers), and a consumer base willing to switch.
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Never realized that Tesla is losing to BYD at manufacturing too, which IMO is Tesla's biggest accomplishment and area of innovation. Nice writeup about the state of play and how we got here though. I have no faith that we're moving any productive direction though sadly, most changes and efforts feel reactionary rather than rooted in making use of the time being bought by tariffs, with few exceptions.
So: how are the cars so cheap, and what is being cut to get there? The best public accounting comes from the Rhodium Group, which compared BYD, Geely, and Leapmotor against Tesla's Chinese operation, a fair comparison because it removes labor costs and shipping from the equation entirely. Their estimate is that BYD builds a car for about $4,700 less than Tesla builds a Model 3 in Shanghai, roughly 15 percent of the Model 3's price. The breakdown is the interesting part. Direct government grants account for about $292 per vehicle, which is 5 percent of the gap. The biggest single factor is vertical integration: BYD makes about 80 percent of its top-tier components in-house, against 37 percent for Tesla, and that eliminates roughly $2,369 per vehicle in supplier markups. Lower overhead, meaning cheaper engineering talent and administrative cost spread across enormous volume, accounts for another $1,719. And BYD pays its suppliers on 155-day terms, against Tesla's 60, which is worth about $214 per car in float. When people say the Chinese advantage is subsidies, the per-vehicle number says otherwise. When people say it is slave wages, the Tesla Shanghai comparison says otherwise too. The advantage is mostly that BYD decided, twenty years ago, to make its own batteries, its own motors, its own power electronics, and its own semiconductors, and Western automakers decided the opposite.
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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Was thinking same thing. It should be a good week for sec shorts and roll callThey ought to have fun with this…
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A continuation of a thread from the pub, just general discussion of AI.
Brief 60 minute clip about next gem autonomous fighters - not remote controlled, but rather collaborating with controllers and aircraft in the theater.
View: https://youtu.be/DRm0mbp_n1k
We've literally got a movie already about this
View: https://youtu.be/a2PW7a9ViDc
Brief 60 minute clip about next gem autonomous fighters - not remote controlled, but rather collaborating with controllers and aircraft in the theater.
View: https://youtu.be/DRm0mbp_n1k
We've literally got a movie already about this
View: https://youtu.be/a2PW7a9ViDc
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Agents need appropriate context to make what would be understood as the correct read in a situation like that, and that Gemini answer was a clear miss on that front.
That said, we've also seen Musk (and/or his team) put his thumb on the scale (or just release a very poor product) with his own deployed AI since:
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In the end, it's all a tool. Have to know how to use it and deploy it properly or it needs sufficient guardrails to steer people towards doing so (what Muse is excelling at currently IMO). I'm routinely interacting with several agents a day operating various processes locally and in services I use, and there are numerous others silently spun up to perform actions or satisfy requests from my prompts.
Related to earlier discussion in the thread on leveraging local inference: this kind of analysis happening behind the scenes is something everyone will have built into Windows, IMO. Most people won't see all of this, just the results, unless they want to dig into how the fix was chosen. Stuff like this will be standard as agents get local system access baked in, and more of the inference itself moves on-device.
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My year was almost up and we got the new bill for a year of service for $ 360.00 insane sat radio is becoming like cable!!! i logged into my acct and hopped onto chat and told the rep that i wanted to cancel. she understood my concern and went quiet for a few minutes. i figured that she was canceling my service. she comes back and said that she seen that i have been a sub since 07 and then offers me the same package for a year for 120.00 with taxes and fee's!!! i grabbed it. after almost having a stroke 
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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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Schedule drops tomorrow. Mandatory mini camps in June. Hall of Fame game August 6th.
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Troy Aikman seems to confirm he'll be leaving ESPN
Aikman says he looks forward to "where my next landing spot will be."
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Hopefully nowhere near a microphone.Troy Aikman seems to confirm he'll be leaving ESPN
Aikman says he looks forward to "where my next landing spot will be."
