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A few months behind schedule but it's time! Tuesday is the day.
First priority was getting my subscription dishes set up because I'm paying for that TV so I want it up and going ASAP. And I watch a LOT of the BBC..
I do have the luxury of moving piecemeal so I don't have to be in a huge rush to get everything over there at once. My FTA dishes ARE GOING but it will be a few weeks. There is a KU dish on an HH motor there now which will get me Retro and a few others I like, that will hold me over until I get the other dishes moved.
I also have to get the fence finished on the side where the FTA dishes go, when they were drilling holes in the ground for the fence they hit a gas line and made a HUGE leak that scared the whole neighborhood. That shut down everything for the day and my fence line had to get shifted over which I wasn't happy about.
At least we now know where everything is buried so I won't have to worry when I plant the poles for my FTA dishes. The smaller dishes are going three foot down, the 10' C-band and the 1.8m Prodelin are going SIX FEET IN, I want 5 feet above ground so I need two 11' x 4.5" poles.
Over the years I've suffered a lot of grief from my FTA adventures. Mostly because of poles not put in plumb and or put in not deep enough. For my subscription dishes I got three schedule 40, 3" by 8' galvanized poles. My dad drilled holes 18" from the bottom and put some painted rebarb through so they can not spin in the cement. I had the handyman drill three, three foot deep holes when he was drilling holes for my fence. I had to use a hand digger to make them bigger around so I could get LOTS of cement in.
I mixed up cement till it was like crunchy peanut butter, nice and thick and well mixed so there was no dry stuff in it. I dropped the poles in and I clamped TWO digital inclinometers to the pole at 45 degrees from each other PLUS I stuck some of those needle type inclinometers and a bubble level to the poles and I set them to be PERFECTLY PLUMB. Absolutely dead on, 90 degrees plumb. Each one. Once I got them plumb I just backed off and rested awhile to let the cement set up a little, after about half an hour I checked them again and they were still dead on perfect so I very carefully removed all the levels and meters without disturbing the poles.
Today I went and ran RG-11 end to end and tacked it up properly along the eves of the garage (Yes, it's ugly, it's getting new siding soon). With my very excellent meter I expect that I'll get excellent performance from my dishes and that they will be indestructible and trouble free.
This is exactly the same way I am going to do my FTA dishes. I am taking my time and remembering all my past mistakes and griefs and doing it RIGHT this time. Also I this time I get the luxury of planning out where they go. The mish mash of randomly placed dishes here at my old house are not entirely my doing, my ex started that mess. I just went with it because I didn't know any better. Now I do.
It's really nice when you get a clean slate to work with and you can do it the way you want. And even better after you've learned the hard way what not to do.
My A3 is still on the blink, I haven't had time to try and fix it yet, Brian at Titanium sent me directions on how to fix it but I've been so busy prepping for moving that I just haven't had time. I hope next week I can give it a try because I would like to get back to recording my favorite shows..
There's also my OTA antenna system that I'm going to do as well, I have a matched pair of 91XG's and the fiberglass tubes for mounting them. I just need to get a tower to get them up to 30 feet. I have a pair of thrust bearings for the motor so that should really help as well. And of course EVERYTHING from now on is RG-11. I bought a 1,000 spool of the stuff. There's enough to do everything I will ever think of plus I need to install an FTA system for my dad at his new home. He really, really likes his PBS. He totally digs the Oklahoma feeds.
As the FTA stuff gets moved and installed at my new(ish) home I'll post that stuff. As always, expect massive overkill. Because I can.
First priority was getting my subscription dishes set up because I'm paying for that TV so I want it up and going ASAP. And I watch a LOT of the BBC..
I do have the luxury of moving piecemeal so I don't have to be in a huge rush to get everything over there at once. My FTA dishes ARE GOING but it will be a few weeks. There is a KU dish on an HH motor there now which will get me Retro and a few others I like, that will hold me over until I get the other dishes moved.
I also have to get the fence finished on the side where the FTA dishes go, when they were drilling holes in the ground for the fence they hit a gas line and made a HUGE leak that scared the whole neighborhood. That shut down everything for the day and my fence line had to get shifted over which I wasn't happy about.
At least we now know where everything is buried so I won't have to worry when I plant the poles for my FTA dishes. The smaller dishes are going three foot down, the 10' C-band and the 1.8m Prodelin are going SIX FEET IN, I want 5 feet above ground so I need two 11' x 4.5" poles.
Over the years I've suffered a lot of grief from my FTA adventures. Mostly because of poles not put in plumb and or put in not deep enough. For my subscription dishes I got three schedule 40, 3" by 8' galvanized poles. My dad drilled holes 18" from the bottom and put some painted rebarb through so they can not spin in the cement. I had the handyman drill three, three foot deep holes when he was drilling holes for my fence. I had to use a hand digger to make them bigger around so I could get LOTS of cement in.
I mixed up cement till it was like crunchy peanut butter, nice and thick and well mixed so there was no dry stuff in it. I dropped the poles in and I clamped TWO digital inclinometers to the pole at 45 degrees from each other PLUS I stuck some of those needle type inclinometers and a bubble level to the poles and I set them to be PERFECTLY PLUMB. Absolutely dead on, 90 degrees plumb. Each one. Once I got them plumb I just backed off and rested awhile to let the cement set up a little, after about half an hour I checked them again and they were still dead on perfect so I very carefully removed all the levels and meters without disturbing the poles.
Today I went and ran RG-11 end to end and tacked it up properly along the eves of the garage (Yes, it's ugly, it's getting new siding soon). With my very excellent meter I expect that I'll get excellent performance from my dishes and that they will be indestructible and trouble free.
This is exactly the same way I am going to do my FTA dishes. I am taking my time and remembering all my past mistakes and griefs and doing it RIGHT this time. Also I this time I get the luxury of planning out where they go. The mish mash of randomly placed dishes here at my old house are not entirely my doing, my ex started that mess. I just went with it because I didn't know any better. Now I do.
It's really nice when you get a clean slate to work with and you can do it the way you want. And even better after you've learned the hard way what not to do.
My A3 is still on the blink, I haven't had time to try and fix it yet, Brian at Titanium sent me directions on how to fix it but I've been so busy prepping for moving that I just haven't had time. I hope next week I can give it a try because I would like to get back to recording my favorite shows..
There's also my OTA antenna system that I'm going to do as well, I have a matched pair of 91XG's and the fiberglass tubes for mounting them. I just need to get a tower to get them up to 30 feet. I have a pair of thrust bearings for the motor so that should really help as well. And of course EVERYTHING from now on is RG-11. I bought a 1,000 spool of the stuff. There's enough to do everything I will ever think of plus I need to install an FTA system for my dad at his new home. He really, really likes his PBS. He totally digs the Oklahoma feeds.
As the FTA stuff gets moved and installed at my new(ish) home I'll post that stuff. As always, expect massive overkill. Because I can.
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There is a sketch of the plate. I made it from 2mm thick INOX.
You will also need some other details like piece of 22mm pipe (inner diameter 20mm), 8mm long nut, etc. 
Or you wanted me to make one for you?
It is possible to make new LNB holder for any offset dish but sometimes it is not so easy to measure the working area of the dish (WOD) and calculate it's main parameters like position of the focus (F), offset angle, opening angle, position of the "point G"- point on the surface of the dish where imaginary line from LNB hits the dish. I will make an example on Channel Master 1,2m dish (perfect dish, even it is old and used, it still better than any new, made of tin dish). Everything, what I write here is IMHO, so you can agree or disagree, up to you.
Vertical dimension of the WOD, distance between points A and B (I marked those points on the attached picture) is exactly 1300mm. Horizontal size of the WOD is 1200mm. Offset angle of CM1,2m is 22,6* , opening angle (angle A-F-B) is 80* and F/D ratio is .6. Another important distances here are: A-F=1220mm, B-F=720mm, G-F=814mm.
The trickiest here is how to co-locate LNB's Phase center with antenna's focus. But when it is done then we can get maximum performance of SAT-system. Of course, LNB with proper illumination angle (in case of CM1,2m LNB's illumination angle should be about 80* to match antenna's opening angle), should be used.
For holder I made for Ku-band, position of the Focal point of the dish is about 20mm from the edge of the clamp, and clamp is about 31mm up of the edge of the long nut. This distance can be corrected when antenna is pointed to satellite. And knowing elevation of chosen satellite and offset angle of the dish we can adjust the position of the LNB with the precision up to 1mm.
Vertical dimension of the WOD, distance between points A and B (I marked those points on the attached picture) is exactly 1300mm. Horizontal size of the WOD is 1200mm. Offset angle of CM1,2m is 22,6* , opening angle (angle A-F-B) is 80* and F/D ratio is .6. Another important distances here are: A-F=1220mm, B-F=720mm, G-F=814mm.
The trickiest here is how to co-locate LNB's Phase center with antenna's focus. But when it is done then we can get maximum performance of SAT-system. Of course, LNB with proper illumination angle (in case of CM1,2m LNB's illumination angle should be about 80* to match antenna's opening angle), should be used.
For holder I made for Ku-band, position of the Focal point of the dish is about 20mm from the edge of the clamp, and clamp is about 31mm up of the edge of the long nut. This distance can be corrected when antenna is pointed to satellite. And knowing elevation of chosen satellite and offset angle of the dish we can adjust the position of the LNB with the precision up to 1mm.
There is holder I made for friend of mine. He wanted it for his Channel Master 1,2m to fit 70mm feedhorn on it. With this holder is also possible to move LNB closer/further to the dish. 
Made this mount for Channel Master 1,2m antenna 
It allows to fine adjust elevation of the dish, but also gives possibility to skew whole dish in case there is need to go East or West from due-South.
It allows to fine adjust elevation of the dish, but also gives possibility to skew whole dish in case there is need to go East or West from due-South.
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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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
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Several Dish offers showed up today in my account. Once you choose one the rest are removed. Offers were Showtime, Starz, AMC and others.
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Not for me, mines has no mention of how long aka the offer period and the Terms and conditions the $0.00 is good for. All I see is one can lose $5.00 if you decide to remove it before day 31 after you add it to the account.
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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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TWiT Tech Podcast Network
Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z72cjoZP83E
Direct YouTube Link - AI Can Self-Replicate: Unplugging the Threat! #shorts
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View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z72cjoZP83E
Direct YouTube Link - AI Can Self-Replicate: Unplugging the Threat! #shorts
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TWiT Tech Podcast Network
Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w5TOILSc_U8
Direct YouTube Link - AI Model Poisoning: The Hidden Threat on Hugging Face #shorts
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View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w5TOILSc_U8
Direct YouTube Link - AI Model Poisoning: The Hidden Threat on Hugging Face #shorts
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
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Help, I'm a little confjused on the activation process.
I purchased the Joey 4 from Solid Signal and shipping box has Call 866 726-4282 to Avtivate new Receiver. That number is Solid Signals number.
I googled and that search said call Dish to activate. I assume that is correct unless this requires a 2 step process.
Please let me know.
Thanks
I purchased the Joey 4 from Solid Signal and shipping box has Call 866 726-4282 to Avtivate new Receiver. That number is Solid Signals number.
I googled and that search said call Dish to activate. I assume that is correct unless this requires a 2 step process.
Please let me know.
Thanks
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All good called Dish and new Joey 4 is activated and working.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
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i bought mine straight from dish as it was only $ 100.00 bucks!!! had the protection plan they came out removed and deactivated the 4k joey and activated and installed the joey 4.All good called Dish and new Joey 4 is activated and working.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
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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.
www.apple.com
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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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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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