Time to upgrade? cable question (and maybe more)

[JSheridan]

Where's my SlideRule? I need to calculate what the difference is.

 

[oldengineer]

Where's my SlideRule? I need to calculate what the difference is.

I've still got my Pickett & Eckel Model N4-ES Vector Type Log Log Dual Base in eye saving yellow if you want to borrow it.

 

[JSheridan]

I've still got my Pickett & Eckel Model N4-ES Vector Type Log Log Dual Base in eye saving yellow if you want to borrow it.

Whoa! Mine's not that fancy.

 

[thomasjk]

And I still have my K&E Log/Log Deci trig at the ready.

 

[david_jr]

Could you please elaborate on the details of the cabling (and this "node" you refer to), so I better understand?
Right now, we have HDMI (I believe) running from the actual sat dish (on the roof) to a plastic junction box on the exterior of our house. (Is this plastic jucntion box the "node" you're referring to? If not, what is the node?) Then there are 3 coax cables going out from the plastic junction box to....

• one coax goes from the junction box to the 722 in the living room (there's a HD TV#1 connected directly to the 722 via HDMI)
  
• one coax goes from the junction box to TV#2 in the upstairs bedroom (this has only been receiving an SD signal but we want HD up there now)
  
• one coax goes from the junction box to the 211k connected to TV#3 in an upstairs office (this is an older, small TV and currently doesn't need HD)

You could get HD to TV 2 location by moving your 211K to TV 2 then going to the junction box and switching the wires going to TV 2 and TV 3. TV 3 would then connect the same as TV 2 used to and TV 2 would have its own box. The only drawback is it would not share recordings with TV 1. If you want to share HD recordings with TV 1 you must go with a Hopper system.

 

[dare2be]

I still use my abacus to balance my checkbook.

 

[Bobby]

I still use my abacus to balance my checkbook.

I use Excel for that!

 

[dare2be]

I use Excel for that!

I was being facetious...I use neither of those outdated tools (abacus, checkbook)

 

[JSheridan]

I use Excel for that!

Excel? Is that your wife's name?

 

[ChadT41]

^^^ best comment ever

 

[JSheridan]

Thanks

 

[Bobby]

Excel? Is that your wife's name?

No, her checkbook is a separate spreadsheet!

 

[thomasjk]

And I still have my K&E Duplex Log/Log Deci trig at the ready.

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