2010-02-27

A farewell to circular Ku?

Filed under: FTA — Nicole Reid @ 14:57

As noted in this thread on Satelliteguys, there are no more unencrypted channels on Echostar satellites. If it stays this way I may as well take down my circular dishes.

The loss of White Springs on the linear side of 129°w frees up an antenna I should be able to use for FreeDBS.

2008-09-18

Some spare equipment

Filed under: FTA — Tags: — Nicole Reid @ 14:09

I love free things, even when they come from odd places.
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2008-07-06

A good signal

Filed under: FTA — Nicole Reid @ 15:17

Or several, in fact.

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2008-06-28

Satellite update for summer 2008

Filed under: FTA — Nicole Reid @ 16:10

I think this is enough for now.

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2007-12-16

Expanding my switch configuration

Filed under: FTA — Nicole Reid @ 20:22

Since I ran out of free ports earlier this year, I needed to add some capacity.

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2007-08-01

Another free antenna

Filed under: FTA — Nicole Reid @ 13:14

This time it’s an 84cm Primestar unit.

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2007-07-12

Better grounding, compression connectors

Filed under: FTA — Nicole Reid @ 15:17

I ordered some grounding blocks and a bag of better connectors.

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2007-06-14

June 2007 satellite update

Filed under: FTA — Nicole Reid @ 18:54

With the addition of Echostar 3 (61.5°w) I’m now receiving seven orbital locations.

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