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Brian,
I hope this message finds you well. We previously engaged in insightful discussions on Satellite Guys, and I must say, your expertise and insights were invaluable to me. I'm aware of your specialized satellite parts store, Titanium Satellite, and I believe your knowledge could be instrumental in my current endeavor.
Earlier this summer, I acquired an 8-foot mesh dish along with its mounting pole. However, I find myself somewhat perplexed regarding the exact components required to assemble and operate this dish. Based on my understanding, the preliminary list of necessary parts appears to be:
Could you please review this list and confirm if it's accurate? Specifically, I'm anticipating the need for a new LNB and actuator but am unsure about the DiSEqC Motor and positioner. Your expertise in how these parts interconnect would be invaluable.
Regarding my Ku band dish, I'm currently receiving signals between 77W and 101W. I plan to access 103W again once the seasonal foliage recedes.
Would it be possible to source some of these parts used? Your insights into quality and compatibility would be greatly beneficial.
I eagerly await your guidance and thank you once again for your willingness to assist.
Best Regards,
John-K9JPT
I hope this message finds you well. We previously engaged in insightful discussions on Satellite Guys, and I must say, your expertise and insights were invaluable to me. I'm aware of your specialized satellite parts store, Titanium Satellite, and I believe your knowledge could be instrumental in my current endeavor.
Earlier this summer, I acquired an 8-foot mesh dish along with its mounting pole. However, I find myself somewhat perplexed regarding the exact components required to assemble and operate this dish. Based on my understanding, the preliminary list of necessary parts appears to be:
- New C-band Actuator: How can I ascertain the appropriate size for my specific dish?
- FTA Receiver with C-band: Essential for receiving free-to-air C-band signals.
- Dual C & Ku Band LNB: To facilitate both C and Ku band reception.
- DiSEqC Motor: I'm uncertain about the necessity of this component; your guidance would be appreciated.
- Positioner: To accurately align the dish with the desired satellite.
- Coax Cable: For signal transmission.
Could you please review this list and confirm if it's accurate? Specifically, I'm anticipating the need for a new LNB and actuator but am unsure about the DiSEqC Motor and positioner. Your expertise in how these parts interconnect would be invaluable.
Regarding my Ku band dish, I'm currently receiving signals between 77W and 101W. I plan to access 103W again once the seasonal foliage recedes.
Would it be possible to source some of these parts used? Your insights into quality and compatibility would be greatly beneficial.
I eagerly await your guidance and thank you once again for your willingness to assist.
Best Regards,
John-K9JPT
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If I could butt in. I believe Brian is referring to.
With your dish retracted towards the lowest satellite you will ever be able to receive.
Measure the distance for your mounting points between A & B.
For me the lowest sat. is 131W. Which is pretty low here.
And I do have a bit of dish movement further west.
So in Bri's thing. If you were aimed at 131W. You obviously would not want the actuator completely retracted. Lets say you start out with it extended 3-4 or so inches. And no worries. There are switches inside of the motor that limit how far it can physically retract and extend.
Then move your dish up towards the sky. Keeping an eye on where the actuator would be mounted.
If there are no obstructions or parts of the dish that would interfere with, or cause the actuator shaft to hit, bind, on the polar mount.
Measure the length between those 2 points. If it happens to be 18-20 inches. Then a 24" actuator would fit you well. Just remember whether 24, 36 inches in length. You can never retract or extend them all the way.
In my pic. The dish initially would only handle a 24" actuator. Hence the added angle iron and hardware. And the spring fixes a nasty habit known as "dish flop" when the geometry of the actuator mount and the dish going a bit over top center. To all of a sudden....flop over. Not too good for the actuator. But then again it's a big old heavy 12' fiberglass dish. The mount is all painted and pretty now.
Bri can handle the next part. Your ku dish mover contains everything that it takes for your receiver to tell it to move. The same is a bit different with linear actuators. The actuator gets voltage from a controller. The controller is attached between the dish and the receiver with the same coax that the LNBF is hooked to. "Daisy chained".
You would have to manually steer the dish with the mover control. Those movements would be tracked with a counter (encoder) in the actuator arm.
So you've seen the usals settings in your receiver. In this world you don't use it.
If 127W reads 307 incremental 'counts' on the controller display. You store that position in its memory. And assign that memory slot #1.
In the receiver you see stored position (once you turn use usals off). Enter 001 and save.
Find your next sat. and store it in the dish mover as a momory slot. Do it again. And again.
And so on and so on. 125W, pos. #2.......99W, pos #15.
I have something like 45 sat's stored.
There are other, ancient movers that you held a button until it counted up/down to the satellite position. But today. Your one and possibly only option would be a V-Box.
(nah bri. i aint gonna' jab you in the sacroilliac on that one......haha. touche')
I just happen to have a new old stock G-box positioner listed in the classified ads, if you want one. Get a motor on your C-band dish, connect that and the receiver to this, program it, and the receiver will then automatically move the dish to whatever satellite you want.
You can't buy these from Sadoun anymore, as they no longer sell satellite equipment.
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You can't buy these from Sadoun anymore, as they no longer sell satellite equipment.
SOLD!! - N.O.S. Sadoun Gbox V3000 satellite positioner - Now on Ebay also
New in box, never used, part of my "just in case" stock, never needed it, because the old one I've used for years has never failed. I opened the sealed box, and plugged this in to take a pic showing it lit up...
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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.
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
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.
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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
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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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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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 - 8 U.S. States Sue OpenAI Over Safety Concerns With Younger Users
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On Tuesday, I recorded the first episodes of the new season's NCIS shows on CBS (Dish provided, not OTA). The new New York series and Origins will both do Auto Skip, but the original, now season 24 does not. What's stranger, when I do a search for NCIS, Origins and New York show the current recording and the next episode it will record, but the original show only shows the current recording and some other channel showing the very first episode of season one. It makes no sense. When I set up the timers, I was able to use search for Origins and New York, but for the original, I had to scroll ahead in the guide until last Tuesday when the show was airing. Then set the timer from there. You can see its timer type is DVR where the other two are Seek. What am I missing?
Thanks!
Thanks!
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