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Ok, my new dish is on the way and I will have to run 2 runs of RG-6, under the crawlspace and then to my family room
I have 2 choices. 1) just drill a 1/2-3/4 inch hole in the Pergo floor and come straight up ...or.... 2)put in a Remodel Box with 2 Coax pass thru connectors on a standard wall plate in the wall behind my setup.
My only concern (besides the work) is signal loss on the pass thru(s) if I go the remodel box route.....any advice would be appreciated! I am using Belden Quad shield cable, and the runs are about 75 ft each (found a shortcut!)
Thanx
Jeff
I have 2 choices. 1) just drill a 1/2-3/4 inch hole in the Pergo floor and come straight up ...or.... 2)put in a Remodel Box with 2 Coax pass thru connectors on a standard wall plate in the wall behind my setup.
My only concern (besides the work) is signal loss on the pass thru(s) if I go the remodel box route.....any advice would be appreciated! I am using Belden Quad shield cable, and the runs are about 75 ft each (found a shortcut!)
Thanx
Jeff
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Black widows are overrated. Many years ago I went to visit a friend in Eastern Washington. We got to drinking scotch in the evening, and talking about the differences between there and Wisconsin (my friend was from there too). He got a flashlight and took me outside to look for black widows. We found one and he picked it up and we watched it bite him. Then we had to find another so I could do it too. This was back in the early 70's when everyone was experimenting with drugs. The bites maybe made us a little higher but otherwise no had effect.
So don't worry too much about black widows. Or drink Scotch before crawling into the crawlspace. Course, that might degrade the quality of your installation
So don't worry too much about black widows. Or drink Scotch before crawling into the crawlspace. Course, that might degrade the quality of your installation
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You were luckily!
I got nailed by a Black Widow ( a big sucker too) a few years ago and my arm swelled up overnight! hate the buggers!
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animalhead.com said:Black widows are overrated. Many years ago I went to visit a friend in Eastern Washington. We got to drinking scotch in the evening, and talking about the differences between there and Wisconsin (my friend was from there too). He got a flashlight and took me outside to look for black widows. We found one and he picked it up and we watched it bite him. Then we had to find another so I could do it too. This was back in the early 70's when everyone was experimenting with drugs. The bites maybe made us a little higher but otherwise no had effect.
So don't worry too much about black widows. Or drink Scotch before crawling into the crawlspace. Course, that might degrade the quality of your installation
I got nailed by a Black Widow ( a big sucker too) a few years ago and my arm swelled up overnight! hate the buggers!
jeff
Tron said:Belden 1694?! GOD, that's expensive stuff. It's primarily used for routing baseband analog video and SDI digital video in broadcast facilities. It's gas-injected foam dielectric with a solid copper center conductor. What kind of fittings are you terminating it with?
That cable is really overkill for an RF signal, but it *should* work. As Pete said, check the fittings... the blue Digicons should work well on it. Remember that the solid copper center conductor will bend easier than will the copper clad steel ones. I also remember reading somewhere that the copper-clad center conductors are better for RF than the solid copper ones, don't know if that's the problem.
If you have an extra roll or two you don't mind parting with, I'd gladly payI'm going to be running cable in a home studio soon, and will need 1694 to connect my broadcast gear.
Well, I am not sure how my boss would feel about be pawning the 1694. My department deals with the installation of traffic camera and we have a few rolls of the stuff in the office. Oh btw, Pete you were right it was the connectors. The systems works beautifully now. I guess with this special type of cable I do have low signal lose for the 100ft because the quality on most feeds are very high.
I didn't use any special fittings, just the ones you find at home depot. They are RCA RG-6 gold-plated, so they are high quality
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Why are ViP922s So rare? like its crazy how ebay has none, i checked everywhere, also, i got a ViP222k now, which is actually activated!
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LOL. It depends if the person saw it during the years when they were actually still available which is 1968 to 1983 meaning the person could be 43-58 years old or they can even be a few years old if they learned to read and write at a young age and actually saw a telephone with that label somewhere recently just like even here in San Francisco, payphone still exist physically in public places but whether they can be used or not is a different issue. It still looks like this even today:
I opened my Radio Shack in Sept 1984 and right about that time they did the whole deregulation thing with the phone companies. I bought TONS of those phones that had been refurbished with a new outer shell. You could throw one of those out of a 3 story high window and it would still work.
That was an interesting time in history. I would have older customers come in and ask about phones.....they were terrified that they were going to get into trouble hooking up a second phone without the phone company knowing about it. One of the funniest episodes of WKRP was the one where Johnny thought the cops were showing up because they had an unregistered phone. I guess younger folks can't conceive of a time when you were limited to the number of phones you could have in your house....and limited to the length of the cord
That was an interesting time in history. I would have older customers come in and ask about phones.....they were terrified that they were going to get into trouble hooking up a second phone without the phone company knowing about it. One of the funniest episodes of WKRP was the one where Johnny thought the cops were showing up because they had an unregistered phone. I guess younger folks can't conceive of a time when you were limited to the number of phones you could have in your house....and limited to the length of the cord
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My OTA is not working anymore. This started after the latest update. I have the OTA dongle with a OTA antenna that I've been using for years. My hopper does not recognize the dongle anymore and when I go to the OTA setting, it has a screen that says to plug a dongle into the USB. I tried unplugging and plugging back, in the same usb port and other ports. The Hopper does not recognize it. Anyone have same issue?
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Did you people having this issue contact Brittany yet? Shes trying to keep track of things and it would be good for you to contact her as maybe she can get this somewhere and get fixed.
Now while unofficial, I am hearing this issue wasn't caused by DISH's software team, but was caused by a chipset driver update that seemes to have hosed some older USB devices. If this is indeed the case I can see why DISH didn't know and why they are slow in fixing it as they need the chipset company to fix its drivers and release them to DISH so they can be pushed out to all.
DISH does not hate you guys nor do they want you to buy new USB dongles. I am rather sure they didn't even know this was an issue until they saw it posted.
Again contact Brittany if you are having this issue, so she has your info and hopefully she can do something for you to keep you happy.
Now while unofficial, I am hearing this issue wasn't caused by DISH's software team, but was caused by a chipset driver update that seemes to have hosed some older USB devices. If this is indeed the case I can see why DISH didn't know and why they are slow in fixing it as they need the chipset company to fix its drivers and release them to DISH so they can be pushed out to all.
DISH does not hate you guys nor do they want you to buy new USB dongles. I am rather sure they didn't even know this was an issue until they saw it posted.
Again contact Brittany if you are having this issue, so she has your info and hopefully she can do something for you to keep you happy.
Thanks, but until they do, can't Dish just revert to the old driver that worked? Then test the new driver when delivered,d before pushing it again.Did you people having this issue contact Brittany yet? Shes trying to keep track of things and it would be good for you to contact her as maybe she can get this somewhere and get fixed.
Now while unofficial, I am hearing this issue wasn't caused by DISH's software team, but was caused by a chipset driver update that seemes to have hosed some older USB devices. If this is indeed the case I can see why DISH didn't know and why they are slow in fixing it as they need the chipset company to fix its drivers and release them to DISH so they can be pushed out to all.
DISH does not hate you guys nor do they want you to buy new USB dongles. I am rather sure they didn't even know this was an issue until they saw it posted.
Again contact Brittany if you are having this issue, so she has your info and hopefully she can do something for you to keep you happy.
But then what does an old CIO know! I've only reamed quite a few buttholes from my people that didn't do that!
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dish can't revert back to older drivers or updates. although just one reason not to buy the ota dongle!!!Thanks, but until they do, can't Dish just revert to the old driver that worked? Then test the new driver when delivered,d before pushing it again.
But then what does an old CIO know! I've only reamed quite a few buttholes from my people that didn't do that!
Interesting article about the work being done to develope an ATSC 3 converter box. Yes it does mention affordable.
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Pearl TV Issues Progress Report on Low-Cost 3.0 Converters in Advance of NAB Show New York
Group has secured lower pricing from key tech players to make less costly boxes available
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It's dead, they just don't know it yet. They killed it by forcing DRM on it, and that TOTALLY botched implementing it.
There is absolutely NO compelling reason for anybody to switch to ATSC3.0. They only want it as a total and complete money grab.
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