--- In [email protected], "Stephen Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> CBand is not dying. Only some analog on CBand is dissappearing and
being
> replced with digital. There is many many digital feeds on both KU
and CBand
> which can be gotten with an inexpensive FTA receiver. These would
be mostly
> all MPeg feeds but they are all over the place. CBand is excellent
for
> this. Many of the old "wild feeds" such as syndicated stuff is
slowly
> making the shift to MPeg digital. Any cheap FTA receiver will get
them just
> fine on both C and Ku bands. There are still quite a lot of
syndicated and
> news feeds available in analog yet. Ask any engineer at a local
television
> station and they will tell you it is still quite active and will
probably
> continue for a while.
>
> Just my opinion.
>
> Steve
> AB8YY
> it's good that there is someone out there that believes C-Band, for
I also know that there is plenty of wildfeds and some TV stations as
well. I love the sound and picture quality with c-band and no small
dish company nor CATV will match the quality with C-band or the Over
the air quality given the reason with C-band, I have noted the signal
is more direct "Line OF Site". This isn't the case with CATV nor the
small dishes. For awhile back I have posted about the quality with C-
band and The small dish companies, along with CATV use a backhual
system when it comes to distributing the poor quality of signal to
one's location. I just don't quite understand how these small little
dishes could claim they are a satellite system, to which they are
not.Would someone out there from this group know the kbsp for dish
and DirecTV? Thanks.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "johanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 9:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [TVRO] Prime Star dish
>
>
> > Thanks for the great post Rod. I've been an inactive member of
this forum
> > for way too long. Back in 1981 I installed, yes I installed my
first C
> > band dish in Seattle. I was a rank beginner and had one heck of a
time
> > getting everything to work. The worst mistake I made was ordering
a hand
> > crank to change dish positions. I soon upgraded. Then in the
early 90s I
> > added a DirecTV system to my home. (someone else installed it)
Now just
> > north-west of Seattle is Vancouver Island in BC, CA where I and
six other
> > relatives have a primitive summer cottage and share a Star Choice
system,
> > which is in my name.
> >
> > Now that I am retired I come to Mexico during the cold weather
months up
> > North, where as a snowbird I have experimented with a 922 4DTV,
DISH
> > Network and Star Choice.
> >
> > My favorite system now that C band is dying is www.starchoice.com
but
> > being a C band dish-head I wont admit it.
> >
> > Pete KD7ION
> >
> >
> > From: kb8dns
> >
> > Hello all!
> > A little about myself... I've been a "dish head" for about.......
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> > Rod KB8DNS
> >
> >
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