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B.J.
Last reply · posted in Free To Air (FTA) Discussion
Since there was a bit of discussion of some scheduling info in the thread about BBC News, I decided to try something I did several years ago, and that is to try to go through ALL of the AMC-21 PBS feeds, and write down what's on each for as many hours of the day as is possible. I've started, and have about 60% coverage for the past couple days for the daytime hours, typically from around 9AM-5PM. But I haven't had much coverage at other times, and have obviously missed a lot, when out of the house, etc. Therefore, I thought that I'd start a thread where people could post what they see on the PBS feed channels, since there is no schedule for them anywhere.
The feed channels I'm talking about are:
12163H4444 SD05 Normally Hartford APT feeds
12169H4444 SD06 Often KCET, often from midwest states
12175H4444 SD07 Often SCETV
12150H14029 HD04 random HD feeds
12180V30000 HD03 random HD feeds, but most often the APT HD feeds

There is also an SD01 feed channel on the 12180 mux, but I haven't monitored it as yet.

Part of the problem with one person trying to monitor all these channels is that you can only identify the channels when they first come on the are at the top of the hour or half hour, so once I've ID'd one channel, it's too late for the other channels. Last time I did this, it took me several weeks to figure out what most of the recurring feeds were.

Despite the fact that people seem to think that the feeds on these channels are completely random, many of the feeds are recurring. The recent example of this is the thread about BBC news, which has been feeding on the SD06 {and I think sched 512 before that}. I've been watching nearly the same group of shows on Saturdays on a couple of these channels for many years. The BBC feed is a rare one that occurs at the same time every day, but most are feeds that might be once a week at a certain day/time. They do change somewhat, sometimes if there are errors in a scheduled feed, they repeat the feed at a later unscheduled time.
It used to be that you could find a partial schedule for the 12163 Hartford APT feeds, but I can't find that anymore. Instead, they now have a schedule available for the HD feeds on HD03. See American Public Television: APT HD Programming , where down at the bottom is a link for a schedule for one month's programming, but it's generally not for the current month, but instead for over a month in advance, because the schedule is there for stations who they want to purchase the programming, ie it's not intended for scheduling current viewing.

The types of recurring feeds I've noticed are pre-feeds of upcoming shows like Masterpiece Theater, Motor Week, Antiques Roadshow, NewsHour, and other shows. Also non-recurring feeds of pledge drive material.

Anyway, if anyone notices any interesting programming on these channels, please post it here, and I'll try to put together a spreadsheet with a schedule. Even if the feeds observed aren't recurring, the times of the feeds are often indicative of when other random feeds might occur from certain uplink sites.

Once I get an entire week's worth of observations, even if very incomplete, I'll start posting the results.
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B.J.
Darn forum is changing on me, urls changing and pages look different. :mad:

Anyway, I put up a beginning of what I was trying to put together.
Mostly blank now. Entries start Wed . When things prove to recur, I'll probably indicate that somehow. When they change, I'll probably change entries to reflect that too.
Most of entries are just test pattern slates, some of which indicate the source.

http://www.eskerridge.com/bj/sat/PBS-FEED-SCHED.htm

It's an excel spreadsheet, but I've saved it as a web page.
TRG
TRG
It's an excel spreadsheet, but I've saved it as a web page.

Great idea B.J. what timezone did you use?
B.J.
Great idea B.J. what timezone did you use?

Sorry. Meant to indicate that.
Using EDT. I was a little unsure of the AST post above, not sure if they had daylight time or not, but I'll check that channel this afternoon.
B.J.
Almost through a week now, one more day to go.
LOTs of good programming, some I knew about, others I didn't.
I've tried to indicate a few that I know are repeating, but others will be more random, however in the past, I've noticed that different local networks tend to upload on the same time/day, even if the program isn't the same. So when you see programming on a certain day, you have a good chance of finding something similar on that same day/time the next week.

http://www.eskerridge.com/bj/sat/PBS-FEED-SCHED.htm
S
Great work I see a few shows that I will try to get that aren't available elsewhere.

I believe that Poirot feed on Monday at 1600 EST 12163 is reoccurring I managed to get it a few times in the past before I lost the bit of paper I wrote the details on :rolleyes: we should find out soon enough.
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Great information!

Great Information BJ, I love PBS and this will be great info to have! EDT is fine by me!

Thanks for this!
Scott Greczkowski
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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....
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I Care About Detroit - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
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I Wanna Talk About Me - Toby Keith
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98.6 - Keith
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I'm Easy - Keith Carridine
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It's Easy - Boston
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Last reply · posted in Computers and Gadgets
Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.
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arlo
A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.
dishstaller
That's all I got.
That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks
TRG
TRG
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
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b4pjoe
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.
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HipKat
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc
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…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.
harshness
If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

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Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.
dishstaller
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dishstaller
Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
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Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

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Jimbo
Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.
dishstaller
Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.