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Somehow I have become interested in FTA viewing, so I have been searching information to learn more about it. It appears it can become addictive but for the moment I would like to keep it as inexpensive I can to see if my interest continues. Someone gave me a old hughes direcway dish, it has a LNB on it...it is more oblong than round...It has two cables coming from it, one connected to the LNB, tyring to find where the other one is going made out of heavy fiberglass I think.. The same day someone also gave me a Direct TV 18" dish with 3 LNB on it...I also came up with a Monterrey 100C Chapparral receiver just like new...given to me as well...can these items be a starter system for FTA or do I need to buy new stuff...So whether they can work or not it has been fun just collecting the items..
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to Satelliteguys! FTA is a fun and rewarding hobby!The DIrectWay dish will work well fixed for a single KU band satellite. There are several types of DirectWay dishes, so it would be great if you could take a photo of the feedhorn. Likely it is set-up to receive one polarity, so a 2nd LNB will need to be added or replace with a voltage switching polarity LNB.
The DirecTV 3 LNBF dish might be saved for a future project, but it isn't much use for most FTA. The Monterrey receiver is analog only and all KU band analog is long gone. Once again, keep for a future project.
You will need a good MPEG2/4 receiver and I might suggest the Amiko mini HD SE. Great value and quality. Less than $100 on Ebay. If you get a used receiver, make sure it is MPEG2 and 4. While there is quite a bit of MPEG2 programming, a lot of the good stuff is in MPEG4.
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Thank you for your quick response and the added information...I will be glad to shoot a photo of the feedhorn on the direcway but it appears the equipment is out of date for today's technology. Guess I will look at some packages, scary thing is....there is some equipment that operates poorly even though it is new..so will research it further, I have found what you mention above is the focus area...thanks again
The DIrectWay dish will work well fixed for a single KU band satellite. There are several types of DirectWay dishes, so it would be great if you could take a photo of the feedhorn. Likely it is set-up to receive one polarity, so a 2nd LNB will need to be added or replace with a voltage switching polarity LNB.
The DirecTV 3 LNBF dish might be saved for a future project, but it isn't much use for most FTA. The Monterrey receiver is analog only and all KU band analog is long gone. Once again, keep for a future project.
You will need a good MPEG2/4 receiver and I might suggest the Amiko mini HD SE. Great value and quality. Less than $100 on Ebay. If you get a used receiver, make sure it is MPEG2 and 4. While there is quite a bit of MPEG2 programming, a lot of the good stuff is in MPEG4.
Thank you for your quick response and the added information...I will be glad to shoot a photo of the feedhorn on the direcway but it appears the equipment is out of date for today's technology. Guess I will look at some packages, scary thing is....there is some equipment that operates poorly even though it is new..so will research it further, I have found what you mention above is the focus area...thanks again
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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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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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@99W...... D11, D14
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@103W.... D12, D15
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@103W.... D12, D15
@110W.... D5
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For the naysayers who did not think this service would make it, just added another 4.9M subscribers and that was after the removal of 1.2M Russia subscribers.
This is even better, Paramount+ revenue grew 120% and Subscription revenue grew 74% year-over-year ( 2nd quarter 2021/ 2nd quarter 2022) to $830M, principally reflecting paid subscriber growth on Paramount+.
Now compare that to Peacock with only 13 million paid, 13 million free.
This is even better, Paramount+ revenue grew 120% and Subscription revenue grew 74% year-over-year ( 2nd quarter 2021/ 2nd quarter 2022) to $830M, principally reflecting paid subscriber growth on Paramount+.
Now compare that to Peacock with only 13 million paid, 13 million free.
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So, this means that those of us with Commercial Free subs, won't be Commercial Free, unless we wait till after the show is over ?
Which would make same day, not that big of a deal.
Paramount+ has always had the CBS shows on the CBS local channel and yes with commercials. What they are doing now is releasing the OnDemand versions of the show which I believe they don't release until after the shows air on the west coast. And they will be commercial free if you subscribe to the ad free version of Paramount+.So, this means that those of us with Commercial Free subs, won't be Commercial Free, unless we wait till after the show is over ?
Which would make same day, not that big of a deal.
I wasn't up at 3:00 am to check but they are there at 8:00 am today.
The new curated multiview is now live.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
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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…
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. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
they all do that anyways.. ever notice your cell phone slows down when you come up for an upgrade..
. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
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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.
For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat. 
WTF… …What the Foxbat!Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
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wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming youWTF… …What the Foxbat!
I know. Here's what Scott has in store for me if I get out of line:wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming you
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OMG to freaking funny