Finally Fiber optic!!!

[Eagleclaw]

Hello everyone I'm back.
IKS is almost dead and hard to keep a box running. They finally ran a fiber optic out my way in the boonies. YEA!!! 6 years with Satellite internet (sucks) and $$$$$. Now turn me loose HA!! . Guys I started testing way back in the big dish days. Jtag chips , burning cards you name it. AND yes I'm getting old. I wish I could live 20 more years just to see where all this is going. WOW!! I envy you young people.

I want to learn all I can before I'm gone so, I'll ask you to HELP ME. Has been a great hobby. I used to be a HAM radio operator as well. We built computers to track our satellites so we could communicate with someone we never met. They tracked the sats so we could use them to bounce signals. ( Called BOLA back then) This was in the day of Commadore 64 and Vic 32 computers. ( DOS commands) I still build some for friends and wow the stuff changes almost over night.

So, please let me look and listen and ask questions.

Thank You so much . what a wonderful group. KEEP it up !!

[Putski]

Welcome to the FIX.. lol
You are just in time to test IPTV since you have Real Internet now!!!

[The Noof]

Always great to see an old timer still kickin' ass!You're almost as pre-dated as the Noof.lol.Yell if ya need any help.
P.S...remember the battery card?

[jazzman]

Welcome to the FIX Eagleclaw! Enyou our knowlegde here and visit often.

[fn59]

Hello everyone I'm back.
IKS is almost dead and hard to keep a box running. They finally ran a fiber optic out my way in the boonies. YEA!!! 6 years with Satellite internet (sucks) and $$$$$. Now turn me loose HA!! . Guys I started testing way back in the big dish days. Jtag chips , burning cards you name it. AND yes I'm getting old. I wish I could live 20 more years just to see where all this is going. WOW!! I envy you young people.

I want to learn all I can before I'm gone so, I'll ask you to HELP ME. Has been a great hobby. I used to be a HAM radio operator as well. We built computers to track our satellites so we could communicate with someone we never met. They tracked the sats so we could use them to bounce signals. ( Called BOLA back then) This was in the day of Commadore 64 and Vic 32 computers. ( DOS commands) I still build some for friends and wow the stuff changes almost over night.

So, please let me look and listen and ask questions.

Thank You so much . what a wonderful group. KEEP it up !!

If you want to have fun with tech, check out gnu radio.

[nobodyspecial]

Welcome to Satfix Eagleclaw

[kenkell1]

Welcome Eagleclaw......you will enjoy this place. Lots of knowledge and fun peeps to talk with. Oh yea...I can not believe how freakin old you are HOLY ...LOL...just kidding.

[Eagleclaw]

Heck yes. I gave my old card burner away 3 yrs. ago. Still got some Jtag stuff (just in case.) I never sold anything to anybody, never got into that. Just having fun and learning. This IPTV is going to be fun.

[Eagleclaw]

Hey I still have hair on my head and can still shave myself. HA!!
Thanks for the welcome.

[Eagleclaw]

Send me a link (PM) Please.

[dogdayz]

Always great to see an old timer still kickin' ass!You're almost as pre-dated as the Noof.lol.Yell if ya need any help.
P.S...remember the battery card?

I remember them.

I also remember many years before small dish stuff was available I was using my 10 foot BUD with a General Instrument 2700 IRD with a modified videocipher descrambler. Those were great TV days - before video went digital.

[staticrider]

Welcome aboard Eagleclaw.

[Eagleclaw]

Came a long way since then. Amazing at the changes and tech advancements. I hope I live another 20 yrs. just to see what's next.

Big Dish ticked me off when they started charging for it and all the adds too. Then they add all those extra sats just to make it harder for us. Change the channel move the dish. Covered my old 10ft. in plastic and made a fish pond out of it. I built a DTV antenna and put it on and old dish and man can you get a lot of local over the air channels. Heck of a reflector.

[Eagleclaw]

No cell phones either.

[Arlo]

Hey welcome! Once a HAM always a HAM, I say.
Still waiting for faster 'net out here in the boonies myself. Cant wait till the day the pixies come pouring out of the RG.
Which is why I hope iks will live for a bit.
For the ones with a bud still, get a linux receiver, a new lnb, and whatever you need to move it.
You'll be amazed at the changes. Almost forgot I had my p$ the past few months.
Coming from the days of milled epoxy and piggy back socketed eeproms and 1-900-hotshot.
Consider getting a VPN. Like a bible and a gun. You may never need it, but it's sureeee nice if you ever do.
Welcome! lol.