Autumn's coming :)

[Cascade]

The weather's getting cooler and a few leaves have been dropping off the branch that stops me from getting more than 1 transponder off Telstar 6.
So instead of 6 or so encrypted HDTV* channels, I can watch IRS Channel 1, some Bloomberg and a couple of other channels

Bring on the cold.


*I knew they were HomeDepot, honest.

 

[TuxCoder]

You mean to say you haven't pointed your leaf blower up at the trees yet? Might have to set it to its highest power.

 

[TuxCoder]

Man that IRS Network, that's some compelling content on there. A couple weeks ago their powerpoint crashed and you got a whole weekend of staring at someone's Windows desktop (with of course the value added time ticker at the bottom).

 

[timmy1376]

On our local cable system here, they feed a local access channel of a Windows machine, and there is several weekends where we have been treated to the BSOD.

Funny stuff.

BTW: What are the encrypted HDTV channels?

 

[Cascade]

Just says HDTV-English, Spanish, French etc. As it gets colder more birds will open up for me

 

[PSB]

HD = Home Depot

 

[Cascade]

^
|____________doh!

 

[PSB]

I only found out a few weeks ago too! I was telling people about all the HD on IA6, a few more weeks and it will be your favourite satellite.

 

[TuxCoder]

That's classic. I think they had us all fooled there.

 

[fkostyn]

http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/prod...gcemgdffmdflk.0&vertical=LAWN&pid=07136026000

I could recommend this!

 

[Mr Tony]

2 words Cascade

CHAIN SAW

Take care of any leaf issue

 

[Cascade]

Man, I wish I could take them down. If we owned the house I'd trim them back a few hundred feet.
We still have 6 months or so left on the lease - I can't wait to find somewhere that has a clear view, and less mosquitoes.

Until then I'm praying for tornadoes.

 

[mkm4]

Man, I wish I could take them down. If we owned the house I'd trim them back a few hundred feet.
We still have 6 months or so left on the lease - I can't wait to find somewhere that has a clear view, and less mosquitoes.

Until then I'm praying for tornadoes.

You don't need to cut them down; you just need to kill them. There are many ways to make it look like a natural death.

 

[Cascade]

Uhmm...

As much as I love my hobby I don't think I could let myself kill 3 or 4 trees that are over 100 years old.

I think I'll let nature take its course and wait for the leaves to fall.

 

[Mr Tony]

So now that you can get T6, you can see a bunch of news feeds

 

[Cascade]

I dunno if they're strong enough to get through what's left of the branch, the transponders I do get now fluctuate a lot when the wind blows.

I'm looking at another LNB, I think mine's on its way out as it seems to have probs locking onto some signals and seems to fall over at switching between H/V.
A slightly bigger dish would be nice if I can find something to put on my motor that doesn't cost a mortgage to ship.

Any suggestions?