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StarChoice experiment

A while ago Iceberg commented that a previously-activated SC box could be used to pick up a handful of free channels on the Anik birds. Just for the heck of it I hooked up my old DSR-405 receiver (last used when I was subscriber over 2 years ago) to the loop out on my Coolsat 5000.

Fired up the CS, turned the 36" Fortec dish to Anik F1 and let r rip!

Bingo! Except for AMC all the free channels listed on Lyngsat came in! The rest wanted me to "call for authorization" but it certainly was an interesting experiment to see if it would work.:up

Signal strength was an impressive 14 (was 9-10 on my old 60-E dish).

I will say, the graphical interface used by the 405 is archaic compared to the Coolsat. And the channel changes were very slow. Still, it was a fun thing to try.
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Larry1
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With a StarChoice box you can sometimes get some of the HITS channels on X4 (Gallaxy 4R 99deg w). I have a nice collection of Tarzan movies from a few years ago. You can experiment with rotating the LNBF 90deg for added combinations of channels or you can modify your channel maps with the 4play software if you want to edit the maps. I tried this a few years ago and gave up as it was very time consuming.
http://www.coolstf.com/4play/
I was able to pickup X4 with a StarChoice 24" dish and LNBF (0.8db), but have not tried again for a few years now.
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Larry1 said:
With a StarChoice box you can sometimes get some of the HITS channels on X4 (Gallaxy 4R 99deg w). I have a nice collection of Tarzan movies from a few years ago. You can experiment with rotating the LNBF 90deg for added combinations of channels or you can modify your channel maps with the 4play software if you want to edit the maps. I tried this a few years ago and gave up as it was very time consuming.
http://www.coolstf.com/4play/
I was able to pickup X4 with a StarChoice 24" dish and LNBF (0.8db), but have not tried again for a few years now.
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Hi Larry, thanks for the info. Just how did you go about getting some of the HITS channesl on Galaxy 4? That's what I'm after. Did you have to manually tune the receiver? What model receiver were you using?
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Just did a little reading on the website, from the looks of it, it will only support a 4DTV receiver......I have a couple of old star choice boxes that are not the 4DTV ones.
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I have the StarChoice version of the 4DTV box. With it you can use the generics in the 4DTV to search for channels (manually, trial and error). With the other StarChoice boxes, you are confined to the channel maps that are programmed into it by StarChoice. You can manually turn your LNBF 90deg to get some other combinations of polarity and frequency as well. The 4PLAY software will also work on some of the other Starchoice boxes, (I have used it on the 421B) but it does not seem to be quite as nice to use on the other boxes as it is with the 4DTV box. For me it was much more stable on the 4DTV box than the 421B box, but it does give someting to play with. The BDM cables come in 5V and 3.3V versions, so you need to check the interface voltages of the boxes you want to work on. If I remember correctly, I used a 3.3V BDM on the 421B and had to make a custom cable with one wire removed at the connector to attach to a clip to attach it to a 3.3V point on the board. The 4DTV uses a 5V BDM. ***warning, I might be wrong on this*** Interesting enough, StarChoice uses a simple cable to the serial port (just wires and connectors) to upgrade the software through the BDM port on the 421B and to reset the machine settings. At one point early on, one of their tech people loaded a beta software for me to try out. The 4PLAY software however requires a BDM cable to download/upload the channel maps. I was able to edit some of the channels on the 421B, but found working with the 921 (4DTV) box much easier. I only edited the existing maps on the 421B, did not merge or add new channels.
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Very cool stuff. I had heard a little bit about the 4play software quite some time ago and wondered about it's usefullness. I think I have a 421B somewhere, it might be at a friend's place as he was going to buy it but found it was better for him to get the whole works from star choice as a new subscriber.
Thanks for the info, might be worth looking into when I have some more time.
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This Week in Tech 1107

Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!


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This Week in Tech 1107

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This Week in Tech 1107

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Club TWiT: Unpacking 'You Can See Everything' - Deception, Empathy, and the Art of the Documentary

Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!


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This Week in Tech 1107

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200,000 Subscriber Livestream - Let's Giveaway some RADIOS!

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Brutal review of Netflix's series Below

Don't know if any of you have watched this series yet, it would be interesting to see if you feel this review was accurate. It was very humorous to listen to however.


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What a "pile of slop" review! I liked the show.
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What a "pile of slop" review! I liked the show.
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If the review is like the article, oi! Eighteen paragraphs into the review and... all they've done is not really talk at all about the actual thing they are reviewing.

Halfway into the "written" review, I know more about how the writer "thinks" than I do about what they are writing about. I understand their politics, their self-overestimated understanding of film, their inability to be funny.

Takes about 22 paragraphs to get to one that starts "Anyway, the story kicks off...". Talk about Slop! 😂
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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - Paramount+

Season 2 order already in hand:

'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2, Tatiana Maslany to Guest Star in Season 1

I've not been optimistic about this show based on what I've read so far. Seems to be aimed at a younger audience. Interesting though that Tatiana Maslany will have some sort of role.
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I'm sure I will watch at least the first episode but I am not optimistic.
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Here i am over a year later and just finished season 1. Not great but not as bad as I was expecting. Did not care for the barefoot captain stuff but overall ok. Actually looking forward to see what they did for season 2.
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klang said:
Here i am over a year later and just finished season 1. Not great but not as bad as I was expecting. Did not care for the barefoot captain stuff but overall ok. Actually looking forward to see what they did for season 2.
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Yeah, the foot stuff was just nasty. I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less. Funny, I love being shoe less at home and never wear shoes indoors in my home for long, but seeing her laying on all her furniture with her bare feet hanging out just kind of grossed me out.
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MikeD-C05 said:
I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less.
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Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?
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harshness said:
Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?
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There would still be dirt ,dust in the future I am sure. So walking around the station like she did she would get stuff on her feet. I am sure the robot vacuum is still going to miss stuff, with all those different alien species running around there.
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MikeD-C05 said:
There would still be dirt ,dust in the future I am sure.
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Where is it going to come from -- specifically?

Why do you think cleaning technology won't improve in the next few hundred years? HEPA filtration was invented as part of the Manhattan Project.
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harshness said:
Where is it going to come from -- specifically?

Why do you think cleaning technology won't improve in the next few hundred years? HEPA filtration was invented as part of the Manhattan Project.
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I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that. ;)
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MikeD-C05 said:
I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that. ;)
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Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though :clapping
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osu1991 said:
Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though :clapping
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Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.
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MikeD-C05 said:
Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.
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You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ... :biggrin
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Well, look at the way she sat in the Captain's Chair. I didn't say the show should have been called "Captain Chair-Whore" for nothing...
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MikeD-C05 said:
Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.
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star trek GIF by HULU


Just sayin...
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You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ... :biggrin
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For a whole generation of adults it was in the 1960s and 1970s.

All In The Family Nostalgia GIF by Sony Pictures Television
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Females wearing any clothing is unthinkable on Ferenginar.
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harshness said:
Females wearing any clothing is unthinkable on Ferenginar.
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Was never a huge of the Ferengi-centric episodes in Trek...
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Song Name Game Part 3!

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....
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Gondoliers, Shakespeares, Overseers, Playboys and Bums - Norman Greenbaum
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I Wish I Was Eighteen Again - George Burns
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I Wish - Stevie Wonder
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Lonesome Road -- The Wonder Who?
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Meta Muse AI Privacy Flaw - What Your Shared Data Can Reveal #shorts

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