A Real Spot Beam Map!

[arthur]

Originally posted by gopherhockey
Now THATs an answer.. thanks very much for the tips!

What a bummer though.. it appears I can probably pull St. Louis, W. Palm Bch, Austin and Dallas... but when I add them I just get a blank black screen.. no searching errors, no guide data.

I wonder if the last step is that location file people have been talking about...

There was a guy that posted a way to get all locals - doubt that works now, but maybe I'll give that a shot.

Thx..

I suppose you are setting the correct local bytes and the guide bytes

[gopherhockey]

Nope, I have seen posts about that and searched on it, but really would want to have my receiver set up in a way that I wouldn't have to get in and change anything and screw up my current locals.

It is difficult sometimes to tell when someone posts on a subject if it is outdated already or not... like one guy posted something about getting ALL local channels without using that program.. I'm guessing thats no longer valid either.

Looks like I can get my locals and anything national... not a huge benefit, but I'll take it ;-)

[AlphaWolf]

You know what you might also try is turning on every transponder bit in the guide byte of your CAM, this should cause all of the locals that you can possibly receive to show up. Take that list and remove the duplicates from mvchannels, then set your guide byte to normal.

[Wooly]

That's a good way to eliminate Rain Fade also...

(I live in Florida, and replacing my 18" dish with a 24" dish pretty much took care of the problem...I'd like to see how a 14' unit takes care of business, though!).

BTW, completely off topic, I found a way (I say found, as I didn't invent it, I only found a report of how someone else did it) to use 18" DTV dishes to spot xmit 802.11b signals as far as 12 miles with acceptable signal strength (i.e., 2mbit yield) and create a WLAN inexpensively. If anyone is curious (and bored beyond belief), click here:

http://trevormarshall.com/biquad.htm

Originally posted by rc3105
phooiey on spot beams

if you're in florida and you want chicago spot beams...

put your DTV Lnb at the focal point of an old c-band dish, the bigger the better

I'm in texas, 'n I've picked up just about everything I've tried so far on an old 14ft fibreglass c band

there's not much bleed outside a spots footprint, but when you have 200 the times the surface area of an 18" dish.....

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Riley