Luken KU feeds to end on 1/31

[turbosat]

I bet with the PLL lnbf you will get so much signal you may have to drain part of it off to a ground rod!

 

[Keith Brannen]

Died (on Ku) right at midnight.

 

[N5XZS]

WELL, it's a sad night for FTA KU TV veiwers out there losing the RTN networks.

Someday maybe someone will replace the RTN network in the future sooner the better....

 

[primestar31]

Get a c-band dish, and get on 101w for Metv, Bounce, TCT Family and Movies channel. That and a ku dish for Cozi on 103w, and there's so much to watch, there's not enough time to do so...

 

[Dee_Ann]

Died (on Ku) right at midnight.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: : :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Get a c-band dish, and get on 101w for Metv, Bounce, TCT Family and Movies channel. That and a ku dish for Cozi on 103w, and there's so much to watch, there's not enough time to do so...

Watch while you can. FTA is such a here today, gone tomorrow type hobby..

 

[Hockeynut]

Time to edit the ch list in all my box`s....It happens.

 

[N5XZS]

I wish had a good C-band dish, but the bad news is my crappy HOA wont's allow 6 foot or larger and sadly, I used to have 10 C-band dish back in the good old days in the late 1980's at my Dad's old place.

So for now, I will have to contend with my 1.1 meter KU-band dish for my TV Dxing fix at this time.:

 

[pickone4me]

I will miss PBJ channel.

 

[stanleyjohn]

Its a sad day But for me I still can get it most of the time on 87w with my 6 footer and just found out that I can also get it with ota rabbit ears.On a side note RTV on AMC9 was one of the very first stations I got when I started FTA less than 5 years ago and my favorite.

 

[DJdish]

WELL, it's a sad night for FTA KU TV veiwers out there losing the RTN networks.

Someday maybe someone will replace the RTN network in the future sooner the better....

I hope so.

 

[DJdish]

I just checked and it´s gone now.
That´s the end of RTV for me now. Although, with the decrease in programming quality since mid 2011, I was watching it much less since then.

 

[77TA]

I hate to see them leave ku, but it's better than losing them all together.

 

[glover31]

Same here, there gone. That really sucks. Is a 6 footer even big enough for reception? Meaning when it snows and rains. My grandfather used to have c band and it never worked in the elements of even slight rain or snow.

 

[Dee_Ann]

The B movies on Saturday night were sort of fun but losing them isn't the end of the world.

But on PBJ they run a lot of old cartoons, specifically Harvey Toons which I grew up with and I've been recording them on 83 for quite some time.

It was super convenient to have them on AMC9, I pretty much dedicated a dish to that, I have oodles of little KU dishes.

But now I have to build a C-band frankendish from assorted spare parts, new parts and old tent stakes. Yes, really..

I am fortunate in that I have a big yard and spare stuff to build one.

But sooooo many people can't put up a BUD for many reasons. That s*cks....

I wonder how many LP stations around the country lost em because they too don't have/can't afford a BUD ??

I really hope Mr. Luken can keep his networks afloat.

Sigh.....

 

[xtgold]

I still have recordings I made of RTV when it was on 123w years ago.

 

[Dee_Ann]

I still have recordings I made of RTV when it was on 123w years ago.

That's where I first discovered them. Back in the good old days.
123 was a gold mine of FTA goodness.
Sigh...... :cry:



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[xtgold]

That's where I first discovered them. Back in the good old days.
123 was a gold mine of FTA goodness.
Sigh...... :cry:

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different channels would show the same program but in different time zones,so if you missed your favorite you could see it again 1 or 2 hours later.

 

[Keith Brannen]

That's where I first discovered them. Back in the good old days.
123 was a gold mine of FTA goodness.
Sigh...... :cry:

I have a listing from June 2006 (a month after I put up my first dish) and Equity had the following English channels on G10R:
8 RTN channels
4 UPN channels
3 WB channels
2 ABC channels
1 FOX channel

Good old days is right!

 

[turbosat]

N5XZS !
I would go buy a backyard picnic table, one of those round ones, that just happened to need a 3.5" support pipe in the middle (to hold up the canopy/shade). They can't forbid those, can they? A 8' dish would make a nice support for the canopy, and there are even zippered sidewalls available for them, which are opaque to neighbors and HOA snoops. And being a motorized canopy you could enjoy your new picnic table any time of the day-just move the canopy to shade the table from sun.

 

[N5XZS]

Turbosat,

That might be a good idea, but I will try to take picture from my digital camera soon after the Super Bowl weekend.

My Backyard is little too tight to squeeze in, for a 8 footer dish that you are talking about. But we will see what happens next/.: