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Chris @kvh, Just curious, why will the broadcasting from 97w and 105w (I assume some new ka birds?) affect reception on the 18" dishes? Overpowering them or something? Too much noise? ??
My M1 works REALLY well. Watched the Jets AND Giants get their arses kicked yesterday while trolling down the beach in 3' or 4' long rollers. I don't know exactly how any of these work really, but I'll say this, it's actually pretty damn amazing to me you guys can lock on a satellite on a boat that is moving in just about every direction, rocking around in the swell and chop on a little boat like mine (30') and receive and decode digital video broadcasts from 20,000 miles away!
I have a question/suggestion for ALL: All my TV's at home have DVR's. As you know, once you use a DVR, it's HARD to watch TV without one. Especially for rewinding to see something you missed or didn't hear. So of course, on my boat about 10 times a day while watching TV, I grab the remote and look for the rewind button.... oh, wait, can't do that, no DVR. Now, having a real DVR probably won't help much, cause I'm not going to leave the thing on all the time to record stuff to watch later like at home... BUT, it would be GREAT if it had a small built in memory of say 1, 2 or 3 minutes of video saved. So while I'm watching something, I could rewind a minute or 2 if I miss something. What do ya think? Possible? Just add a couple megabytes or gigabytes of RAM to the receiver/controller, and stream the video/audio into the memory and give ability to rewind/FF on it. Just a small chunk so there is no need for a hard disk....
On a side note, I have an office right next (couple doors down) to the SeaTel manufacturing plant in Concord, Cali. I went to the front door to see if they had a showroom or something or to talk to a salesman, they said they would NOT let me in the building and escourted me out of the lobby. They stated it was "too dangerous" to be in the building. ??? What about the employees? What the heck were they paranoid about? Anywhoozle.
even if my boat could handle a 24" dish from either company(intellian or kvh). One retails for 8k and the other retails for 13k. and only having one tv on the boat it is a no brainer for me. my favorite entertainment channel is watching fish at night in the underwater lights with a cold beer in my hand.
Hi Birdman. It's my understanding, based on the letter we received, that 18-inch Ka-band dishes won't be able to discriminate between the signals from the adjacent Ka-band satellites (97 and 99 for example) and won't be able to maintain reception once those satellites start operating at their maximum legal transmission power in the future.
Glad to hear that you're enjoying your M1 so much!
My guess is because the sat's are so close together, and putting out so much power, the smaller dish can't separate the signal. Aka, much like the smaller radar radoms can't separate small targets close together as good as the larger open arrays do.
when are those new ka satellites going to be put into operation? three months or three years? that may sway me to go to dish network if the 18" ka band antenna wont work
