FTA Newbie

[Jason S]

Here's a thread from a couple of years ago for a skid mounted, modified pizza pan dish I had for 30W: Weekend experiment for 30W with a little dish

The little dish pulled in quite a few channels and I could move it around the yard.

 

[Lone Gunman]

Is the video about 1 GB/hr ? I may have to go with a flash drive until I can hopefully find a bargain on a hard drive on slickdeals. Other than storage capacity, does the flash drive perform equally as well as an external hard drive?

FYI some HD feeds are much larger than that and some SD stuff a little less. NBC feeds on both 103w Ku and 105w C are around 6.5 GB an hour!

What I record on are laptop 120GB IDE drives using an IDE to USB 2.0 adapter purchased on fleabay and it works on the Micro HD and Opebox S9 receivers I have. I've also got a 500GB and a 640GB SATA laptop drives that I record on via a USB 3.0 to SATA adapter I got on fleabay. Those laptop drives only require 5v @.5 amp so the USB ports power them just fine. I've also used USB 2.0 flash drives to record on as well.

 

[Shicks4]

Sounds like to me that a 2tb drive option wasnt such a bad idea after all.