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It's a slow night, so I thought I would share my newest toy at my satellite station.
This is my 7.5-foot Perfect prime focus dish which I retrieved from rural Nova Scotia in 2012. I've never installed it until now. For the last few days, I've been manually pushing it between 139W through 87W to check out the arc and see that it functions as it should. It's working very well and receives almost all transponders from these satellites with good C/N levels even though it's only 7.5 feet. I think the Titanium C1-PLL LNBF is an important part of it working well. You will notice the post is a little unconventional but I'm satisfied the installation is very stable and will withstand the winter weather at this location. It's view is actually from about 150W through 82W but there are no satellites west of 139W and east of 87W to the start of the forest trees at about 75W.
I installed the unpowered Von Wiese jack that came with the dish only to hold the dish fixed during testing so I could manually change the azimuth. Now, it would be nice to move forward and actually try using the Von Wiese to push the dish. For this, I need to source 100+ feet of power/pulse cable plus a mover like the VBox. I'm not sure where I would source these from.
In the meantime, it is thrilling to experience C-band with more than a 4-foot dish as I've done over the past 5 years. When I see the powerful transponders on satellites at 105W and 97W, for example, I understand why I was able to receive them even on a small 4-foot offset.
View to due south from the dish's point of view:
This is my 7.5-foot Perfect prime focus dish which I retrieved from rural Nova Scotia in 2012. I've never installed it until now. For the last few days, I've been manually pushing it between 139W through 87W to check out the arc and see that it functions as it should. It's working very well and receives almost all transponders from these satellites with good C/N levels even though it's only 7.5 feet. I think the Titanium C1-PLL LNBF is an important part of it working well. You will notice the post is a little unconventional but I'm satisfied the installation is very stable and will withstand the winter weather at this location. It's view is actually from about 150W through 82W but there are no satellites west of 139W and east of 87W to the start of the forest trees at about 75W.
I installed the unpowered Von Wiese jack that came with the dish only to hold the dish fixed during testing so I could manually change the azimuth. Now, it would be nice to move forward and actually try using the Von Wiese to push the dish. For this, I need to source 100+ feet of power/pulse cable plus a mover like the VBox. I'm not sure where I would source these from.
In the meantime, it is thrilling to experience C-band with more than a 4-foot dish as I've done over the past 5 years. When I see the powerful transponders on satellites at 105W and 97W, for example, I understand why I was able to receive them even on a small 4-foot offset.
View to due south from the dish's point of view:
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Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.
I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
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Tony as the director.
Would you rather have LaRoche ???Tony as the director.
OTHER Mini Multiswitch
I just received 6 receiver 2 port mini Multiswitch and it work great, no external power need it, and you can connect 6 receiver instead of 4 on most Mini Multiswitches... If anyone is interested in where they can get one PM me....
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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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This is a thread that will keep you apprised of 4K events that will be showing on Dish channel 540. Keep looking here for information.
As of today, 9-27-17, there are no scheduled events posted for the next 2 weeks. That is subject to change on a daily basis.
As of today, 9-27-17, there are no scheduled events posted for the next 2 weeks. That is subject to change on a daily basis.
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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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I have been optimizing the site the past few days... and got us here now. 
We are rocking now!
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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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Can't help but wonder if a worker overlooked checking the harness. I rarely ride a roller coaster anymore but when I do I check the harness myself pretty aggressively.
Can't imagine what the son is going through.
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Can't imagine what the son is going through.
Dad levitated and bled then fell to his death from coaster
Eyewitnesses have shared fresh details of the horrific accident that happened at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday afternoon.
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Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?
Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…
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Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?
Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…
It makes sense, however, I would want more types of restraints, so if one doesn't work, the other does ... the restraints coming over the shoulder I would have expected ... with a Seat belt as last resort.
Fwiw, I inquired with what they use on Coasters at Cedar Point, various Coasters, different restraints according to what the car and track requires ...
NONE of the Coasters at CP use THAT particular system
I'm glad to see ...
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