I was rather surprised at the Arris. I expected to have to manually enter PIDs, but best I can tell there is no way to do so on that IRD. It worked fine on the old SD feeds. On hindsight.. my boss tuned the RX8200 & he didn't say anything about having to manually enter PIDs. Although he used Compusa...

It turned out the dish in question was already peaked... it simply isn't going to deliver enough RF to make this work. We stole a dish from News until the new LNB arrives. Someone who's a better-qualified steeplejack will be swapping it. We normally use an Arris -- I want to say DSR-4460 but I'm out...

Faced a bit of a challenge this morning. I had a satellite dish not quite delivering enough signal on Galaxy 19. Needed to peak it up -- but there's no motor on this dish. The feed is 25 feet in the air so temporarily connecting a spectrum analyzer to the back of the LNB wasn't really an option. It'...

I have a HMIQSHDI KVM transmitter configured for an unknown IP address. I need to reconfigure for a specific network. You change the IP by connecting the transmitter directly to a receiver, then connecting a RS-232 terminal to the receiver and using a serial menu. Problem is, for that to work the re...

Over the years I've found that different decoders are better for certain applications than others. We've used Tandberg / Ericsson for satellite downlinks and ASI decoders for years without too much fuss, but the 8200 is troublesome if you're trying to decode an IP stream. Upcoms (yeah, right!) have...

I'm glad I took this shot at getting a look at the web GUI. The front-panel UI on these Arris (Motorola) IRDs is pretty weird -- I took our .2 off the air for a few minutes last week just trying to write down where we currently were, without changing anything... It'll be a LOT easier with the browse...

Ouch. Sorry to hear that...

(yes!)

This is resolved.

(somehow, the firmware upgrade process switched it to DCII mode -- it's supposed to be unencrypted MPEG)

We did a firmware upgrade on a DSR-4460 this morning -- afterwards, it won't authorize. It's tuned to the right downlink parameters (frequency, symbol rate, etc.) -- I have a "SIGNAL" light & it goes away if I intentionally enter the wrong DL frequency or pull the RF cable. But the "AUTHORIZED" ligh...

What would be the legality of directly broadcasting the NOAA feed off the Weather Service website?

A broadcast engineer is, of course, expected to learn on the job. Sometimes, one is expected to learn skills WAY outside the job description. Like deer herding. As I'm sure is the case at many of your stations, our employee parking lot is fenced & gated. Yesterday morning, a fawn decided to follow o...

Sounds like it may be an AL-811, with three 811A tubes in parallel. A copy of the manual (with schematic) is available on http://www.ameritron.com/Downloads/index.php?productid=AL-811&filename=AL-811.pdf&company=ameritron . I would be cautious about operating this amplifier at 400 watts output in br...

1. I wonder what the lab director said when he saw his vat of expensive demineralized water contaminated? :D 2. Touring a UHF TV transmitter... saw , in the middle of a few feet of insulating hose, a metal fixture with a wire attached. Seemed strange, as there was no other electrical connection. (at...

Anyone else having trouble with Full Compass' website? Twice this week I've tried to order something online & found the external credit card processing site never responds. I seem to have developed a bit of a sore throat at the Hamvention & was trying to avoid using my voice but it looks like that's...