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From: Archimedes' Lever on 13 Apr 2010 18:42 On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:15:26 GMT, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >Somebody in alt.satellite.tv.europe reported that a simple plastic garbage bag over the dish works wonders >to keep snow away, I think it was this thread "Rain-X" "Works wonders" for shedding any water borne media from a surface.
From: Copacetic on 13 Apr 2010 18:46 On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:37:14 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >David Lesher wrote: >> Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> writes: >> >>>> Hardly. Rule 1: the dish has to be be able to see the birds. >>>> You can not do that from within the forest; you can from outside >>>> it. >> >>> A big Stihl or Jonsered chainsaw would take care of that. This would >>> also drop the heating bill for the next 4-5 years to close to zero. Just >>> kidding :-) >> >> If they wanted to live out in bare plain, land would be LOTS >> cheaper in Kansas. Plus, there's a little issue of the jail time >> for cutting down trees illegally. >> > >I don't know where that is but here in northern California we are >usually allowed to cut what we want, unless it's a protected species or >some other rules apply. > > >> A friend suggests that there are multiple flavors of HDMI over >> fiber boxes. Put the Dish/DirectTV at the antenna location and >> run HDMI across the glass. > > >Ok, but with HDMI you'd be back to the single channel solution and the >problem with the teenage daughters wanting "their" channels as well. >Then the wife wants to see a dancing show while hubby absolutely has to >see the ballgame. Lots of fibers. One should "go back to" a single dish with single UL DL hooks, and multiple sockets within said hooks to feed multiple streams to multiple daughters. They choose their media from the "in-house" archive, or hunt it up in the cloud, and stream it in live. Then one has Internet access built into the system as well.
From: David Lesher on 14 Apr 2010 01:00 Paul Keinanen <keinanen(a)sci.fi> writes: >If multiple satellites are needed, then more LNBs are needed. If >C-band support is needed, add some more LNBs, if you want to select >any channel at the receiver. Yea, I've been told that's the case; the dish has 3 feeds. The HDMI solution looks better and better. >>>It would be a lot easier and cheaper to put the dish closer. >> >>Hardly. Rule 1: the dish has to be be able to see the birds. >>You can not do that from within the forest; you can from outside >>it. >Is this building in the middle of a 100 m redwood forest or is at some >high latitude e.g. in Alaska ? You hit it; the house is deep in the redwoods. I'm not gonna shinny up and put the dish on top of one, either. They more too much to maintain a lock, anyhow. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz(a)nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
From: David Lesher on 14 Apr 2010 01:01 Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> writes: >Ok, but with HDMI you'd be back to the single channel solution and the >problem with the teenage daughters wanting "their" channels as well. >Then the wife wants to see a dancing show while hubby absolutely has to >see the ballgame. Lots of fibers. True, we can just add receivers and converters for each. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz(a)nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
From: David Lesher on 14 Apr 2010 01:03
Copacetic <Copacetic(a)iseverythingalright.org> writes: > One should "go back to" a single dish with single UL DL hooks, and >multiple sockets within said hooks to feed multiple streams to multiple >daughters. They choose their media from the "in-house" archive, or hunt >it up in the cloud, and stream it in live. Then one has Internet access >built into the system as well. I'm hoping we can get a WISP with an angle to hit their site. It looks doable. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz(a)nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 |