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OTHER TBS6902 vs TBS6983
Should I buy the "professional" TBS6983 or TBS6902? Big difference in price and capabilities. But can I take advantage of the enhanced capabilities of the TBS6983? I'm not sure if I should buy the more expensive model. I'm looking to get something that does 16apsk. The lack of linux based blindscan software concerns me but I don't see anything else out there that would convince me to buy some other brand. I may have to brush up on my C programming and try to build my own linux based blindscan software - programming is very time consuming so I'm reluctant to do it so I guess I'll just have to live with whatever is provided by the vendor.
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I will just say this much. I know of someone who tried to receive 16APSK using a consumer-grade TBS card, specifically a TBS6905, and failed completely. Then he tried a TBS6903 and had no problems other than the usual one of the signal turning to crap for no apparent reason every now and then, typically worse on the weekend. Some people have claimed that they've got a consumer grade card to work with those signals but I think they must either have huge dishes, or they are sacrificing goats under a full moon while uttering the incantation, "Galaxy, come to me" in ancient Sumerian, or something like that. 
Just kidding of course, but I think your chances would be much better with the professional grade card, particularly if your dish is 10 feet or less in diameter, and honestly unless you have at least a 10 foot dish I don't think you have much hope anyway.
Just kidding of course, but I think your chances would be much better with the professional grade card, particularly if your dish is 10 feet or less in diameter, and honestly unless you have at least a 10 foot dish I don't think you have much hope anyway.
I wanted to respond to this separately. I really wish you or someone would create this and make it work on systems that do not have a desktop, such as the server-only editions of Debian or Ubuntu, but make it VERY user friendly. I've heard that there are a limited set of tools out there now, but they either require a the installation of a desktop, which you really don't want if you're just running a server such as TVHeadEnd, or they use arcane options that have to be invoked on the command line and therefore they sort of work, but maybe only ten people in the world have ever figured out how to use them effectively. The big problem with such programs is they need documentation with actual examples showing how to use them, and not just man pages designed for programmers that scare off normal users. In other words, pretend you're writing it for a Windows user, just make it run on Linux.
IDEALLY it should detect your tuners and ask which you want to use, then ask whether it's C or Ku band (maybe with an option to specify a local oscillator frequency if not one of the standard ones), and then ask if there's a DiSEqC switch present and if so, which DiSEqC position to use, and maybe do the same for a 22kHz tone switch. Then it should just blind scan the tuner and show the results, then offer to print them to a text file. Make it simple for the user. Of course if you wanted to get fancy you could have a minimal GUI that runs from the command line (similar to Midnight Commander or some configuration utilities), but that's not really necessary if you don't feel like putting in that much effort.
This would be really great if you could do it and were willing to share the result. Just saying...
Not really. X has been client/server since its inception in the 80s. I don't have an X server installed in my tvheadend box, in fact it doesn't even have a monitor. Just install an X server on whatever remote device you want to use for display, then when running X clients on your Tvheadend box have DISPLAY configured for the system with the X server. Your X client(nowadays some may call it an application) will be running on the Tvheadend box, but remotely displayed on whatever you install an X server onto. Free X servers can be had for about anything, I have them on Windows and Android. In the photo you can see that I am using a Windows notebook, but have X clients displayed on it.
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I guess even the patience of us laid-back Hoosiers has its limits:
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Colts relieve general manager Chris Ballard of his duties
Colts Owner & CEO Carlie Irsay-Gordon released a statement Monday announcing the news.
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Be nice to see a Cowboy headline like that.I guess even the patience of us laid-back Hoosiers has its limits:
Colts relieve general manager Chris Ballard of his duties
Colts Owner & CEO Carlie Irsay-Gordon released a statement Monday announcing the news.
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Can we expect to see a new coach if we say "pretty please?"
I guess even the patience of us laid-back Hoosiers has its limits:
Colts relieve general manager Chris Ballard of his duties
Colts Owner & CEO Carlie Irsay-Gordon released a statement Monday announcing the news.
Can we expect to see a new coach if we say "pretty please?"
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No idea what improvements might be involved.
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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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Stargate SG-1 cancelled, Atlantis renewed
Monday - August 21, 2006 | by Darren Sumner
The future of Stargate is in question today, as SCI FI Channel has cancelled the long-running Stargate SG-1, Multichannel News reported today and a GateWorld source has confirmed. The news regrettably follows the airing of the show's milestone two-hundredth episode on Friday.
Stargate Atlantis, meanwhile, has been renewed for a fourth season, with the network hoping to see that the spin-off series can stand alone, according to a source.
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Monday - August 21, 2006 | by Darren Sumner
The future of Stargate is in question today, as SCI FI Channel has cancelled the long-running Stargate SG-1, Multichannel News reported today and a GateWorld source has confirmed. The news regrettably follows the airing of the show's milestone two-hundredth episode on Friday.
Stargate Atlantis, meanwhile, has been renewed for a fourth season, with the network hoping to see that the spin-off series can stand alone, according to a source.
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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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They get cruel sometimes, very very cruel.
. Hated to see my dawgs go down but I still say being ranked #1 is a hex on you!
They get cruel sometimes, very very cruel.
. Hated to see my dawgs go down but I still say being ranked #1 is a hex on you!
Yup, I agree, I'd rather be 2 or 3 till the last few weeks.They get cruel sometimes, very very cruel.
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