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I have ordered a BSC621-2D C/Ku LNBF and I'm wondering about switching between the C and Ku LNBFs. I have both a DiSEqC 2x1 switch and a 22Khz 2x1 switch available. I'm presently using USALS for dish positioning and it works well.
This is with a Traxis 6100HD reciever. After setup will the receiver output the correct DiSEqC signal to my switch or do I need to use the 22Khz option and switch? My dish is a 120mm offset with a DMS 6100 motor. I've had it working on Ku and on C band with no problems, but I have to change out the LNBFs each time I switch bands.
This is with a Traxis 6100HD reciever. After setup will the receiver output the correct DiSEqC signal to my switch or do I need to use the 22Khz option and switch? My dish is a 120mm offset with a DMS 6100 motor. I've had it working on Ku and on C band with no problems, but I have to change out the LNBFs each time I switch bands.
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I'm thinking to just go ahead and use my 90 CM dish for Ku band with my Titanium Ku Band PLL LNBF and forget about the dual Ku/C LNBF. I already have a steel fence post and 180 LBS of concrete mix for a stable mount for the 90 CM dish. I just need to dig the hole. The Ku dish combo got most everything I wanted when I used it before. The 120 CM dish didn't do that much better on Ku band.
My spare DMS 2100 motor is apparently dead, so I'm on Ebay and other places looking for another motor for the Ku dish.
The nice part of this next install is the unused cable input for my place is about 30 feet from my new 90 CM dish location, and it connects to my AV junction box indoors, same as where my 120 CM dish enters. I can put a switch there to select between the two dishes. There wasn't enough room for the C band dish there.
The new Ku dish location is also mostly out of sight of the street, so somewhat low profile. Fortunately, I have just enough clearance with a offset dish that I can see the Clarke belt just above my neighbors roof. We get extreme winds around here at times and I have a tile roof, so not a great place to mount a dish. The roof edges aren't much better. OK for a little Direct TV dish, but not a 90 CM or larger dish. Ground mount seems the only way to go. I'll add a photo when I get it all installed.
Thanks to everyone for the help and advice.
A Raine, I've done a bit of metal bending in one of my former jobs. Aluminum is easy enough to work with using just a good vise, a rubber mallet and a plan. The part of the bracket with two sheet metal screws showing is to keep the plastic C LNBF mount from rotating. I would have liked to make the whole mount out of aluminum, but that would take a lot more bending.
My spare DMS 2100 motor is apparently dead, so I'm on Ebay and other places looking for another motor for the Ku dish.
The nice part of this next install is the unused cable input for my place is about 30 feet from my new 90 CM dish location, and it connects to my AV junction box indoors, same as where my 120 CM dish enters. I can put a switch there to select between the two dishes. There wasn't enough room for the C band dish there.
The new Ku dish location is also mostly out of sight of the street, so somewhat low profile. Fortunately, I have just enough clearance with a offset dish that I can see the Clarke belt just above my neighbors roof. We get extreme winds around here at times and I have a tile roof, so not a great place to mount a dish. The roof edges aren't much better. OK for a little Direct TV dish, but not a 90 CM or larger dish. Ground mount seems the only way to go. I'll add a photo when I get it all installed.
Thanks to everyone for the help and advice.
A Raine, I've done a bit of metal bending in one of my former jobs. Aluminum is easy enough to work with using just a good vise, a rubber mallet and a plan. The part of the bracket with two sheet metal screws showing is to keep the plastic C LNBF mount from rotating. I would have liked to make the whole mount out of aluminum, but that would take a lot more bending.
I gave up on the dual Ku/C LNB. It never worked that well and I had my original 90 CM dish in the garage gathering dust anyway. I found a good location for my Ku dish and it was easy to integrate into my system.
A couple of photos of my finished dish projects. The first is the C band 120 CM dish. I mounted it low and behind a tree so the subdivision people wouldn't
notice it. Seems to work so far as it been up at least a month with no complaints. It's using a DMS 6100 Monster Motor and a Titanium C1-PLL LNBF. Good picture on most of the higher powered transponders.
My 90 CM dish is using a DMS 2100 motor and a Titanium Ku Band PLL LNBF. The cable ties into my non-used existing cable TV cable, then runs to my media distribution box in a laundry. I have a 22 KHz switch there to switch between the dishes. Works very well. I also have a HD Homerun tuner that feeds the local OTA TV signals from a antenna in the attic to my LAN system, so that OTA TV is available on any of my PCs.
A couple of photos of my finished dish projects. The first is the C band 120 CM dish. I mounted it low and behind a tree so the subdivision people wouldn't
notice it. Seems to work so far as it been up at least a month with no complaints. It's using a DMS 6100 Monster Motor and a Titanium C1-PLL LNBF. Good picture on most of the higher powered transponders.
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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.
As I said above, and, FWIW, I run Win11 Pro and Arch on separate 250 GB NVME drives, using F8 to select which I boot to, with a 1TB SSD for storage, accessible to both OSs and a third formatted Nvme I want to use to learn Kali. It was much faster to setup Arch than it was to strip down Windows. Windows still takes much longer to boot.
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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!
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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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Hard getting used to the new younger Gibbs, Mark Harmons son had the right look but I understand he didn't want the role.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
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Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
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Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?
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Starting a thread klang !
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
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One episode into season 4 that dropped today...
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This thread is a place to discuss the 4K events that appear on channel 540. We are getting, at this point, one college football game a week. Let's hope there is more coming.
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Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
As I recall you have the Flex package. Do you sub to multisport? -02 is FS1 and -03 is ESPN. -01 is Fox so you would get that if you sub to locals.Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
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Direct YouTube Link - A State Cyber-emergency in Japan
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Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
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Direct YouTube Link - AI and Mathematicians
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Direct YouTube Link - AI and Mathematicians
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Apple has finally released their Apple TV 4K with built-in Siri and a microphone so it can respond to your queries even if you don't have the remote. It also increases in price, to $299. I had been planning on updating my current Apple TV 4K streamers, but that's $600 for the two of them, and that's a pass at this point.
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
Apple TV 4K
Apple TV 4K. New Siri AI and hands-free control. Stunning picture and immersive HomePod surround sound. Works with your Apple and smart home devices.
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