Quiet here, isn't it!

[jeallen01]

More like late July/early August!
Can you think of reasons?

 

[2cvbloke]

Naff all going on?

 

[Analoguesat]

Its certainly a lot different from when the Portuguese pay service was open. The staff couldnt keep up with the demands for the keys (or flowers as they were styled by the Porto lads). And of course most of the posts were in Portuguese which made life interesting in the extreme.

The sat tv hobby forums are much quieter since the pay services got their act together and cut off the freebies, and the younger generation doesnt seem to have latched onto forums. The site facebook page has many many folk joining it - mainly from Africa & Asia (despite a very large warning notice that most of the info is only relevant to north western Europe)

 

[Lazarus]

Sat hobby is becoming niche these days. Times change.

 

[jeallen01]

Naff all going on?

Would seem so - can't understand because it's been a pretty cr*p day outside (heavy rain, high winds and so on), so what have "people" been doing?
(in my case, some U3A Photo Group and other photo forums stuff - got a "Like" for a shot of a lovely dog having fun, see post #200 here! )

 

[Lazarus]

Would seem so - can't understand because it's been a pretty cr*p day outside (heavy rain, high winds and so on), so what have "people" been doing?
(in my case, some U3A Photo Group and other photo forums stuff - got a "Like" for a shot of a lovely dog having fun, see post #200 here! )

I are mostly been Bell Ringing.

And celebrating our 24th Wedding Anniversary.

 

[PaulR]

Thought you were referring to the final episode of "Bodyguard" on BBC1 keeping people occupied.

Certainly made me put my laptop down for the duration.

 

[jeallen01]

Whoh - results!

 

[jeallen01]

Thought you were referring to the final episode of "Bodyguard" on BBC1 keeping people occupied.

Certainly made me put my laptop down for the duration.

Still watching the recorded version - "delayed" and so now just seen the very "happy" end - next series "beckons" ????

 

[Lazarus]

You people actually "watch" programmes?

Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs.

In our bungalow.

 

[jeallen01]

I are mostly been Bell Ringing.

And celebrating our 24th Wedding Anniversary.

Our 18th is a week or so away

 

[jeallen01]

You people actually "watch" programmes?

Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs.

In our bungalow.

Flatliner!
PS: "spelling"!
PPS:"sorted" then

 

[pontiend]

I am still spending most of my time out doors.Todays job is creosoting the fence moving an ip cam generally farting about down the garden until the pub opens at three then going out for an hour.Now that the bad weather is coming I will be spending more in indoors on the computer.Another job coming up ordering 100 metre cable to connect second dish.That will be scanning while I watch something on 28 e for an hour.
I am moving the camera on the cages closer it is a Dahua verifocal on full zoom.

 

[sonnetpete]

We've spent a lot of this year travelling, South of France, Spain, Poland and Berlin. In a couple of weeks we'll be back to Spain. Additionally the roof is being replaced (I'm waiting for the builder to turn up while typing this) though it's going to be a complex process apparently. I've even had to take down three sat dishes......

 

[Channel Hopper]

The general trend is for people to accept small dishes work for most of the content they need, planning limitations don't help much in this respect.

Additionally the almost exclusive acceptance of Ku band kit in this part of the world means branching out to the other frequencies requires a second dish and front end that often requires modification.

There are sections of the forum that are frequented more often of course, SDR has been a welcome departure from the norm, and the cost of carryng this out is well within the budget of most, along with the availability.
S band detection also appears to be slowly making a reappearance, thanks to a couple of recent launches.

 

[Captain Jack]

Between 10-12 hour work days, studying for professional qualifications and actual relaxing time (which there isn't a lot of), I haven't had time to do anything satellite related that I wanted to do this summer.

1) C band LNB skew controller.
2) LNB rotator, the pieces of which are still in... well, pieces.
3) Rework my T90 dish with new LNB holders that @RimaNTSS has sent me.
4) Refurbish all of my Jaegar 1224 motors.
5) Prep my Laminas 1.8m dish for sale.

Maybe next year....

 

[jeallen01]

Whilst working, I never actually had time to study for professional qualifications (not that that bothered me much in my line of work) as I was generally too busy finding and learning new jobs, and then trying to stay in them when company businesses "went South"!

 

[sonnetpete]

Prep my Laminas 1.8m dish for sale.

Hmmm......I might be interested but not till next year and then it's the matter of getting it over here..

 

[2cvbloke]

If you have to know, Friday & Saturday for me were spent dealing with this mess in order to get the dishwasher in, added the drainpipe for the washer, replaced a single socket with double, and tidied up the mess of spurred-off ring main wiring into a proper junction box rather than stuffed in the back of the single socket, the plastering though, ugh, forget it, stuff's so soft & rotten that you could probably use it to build a sandcastle!!! Just looking at the wall made it fall off it's that bad...

Sunday was my day of rest cos my legs and back were biblically killing me from bending down and crawling about under the counter & sink to get everything done...

 

[4wd]

Some thoughts, with the time spent on internet and advent of fibre for tv etc, interest for dishes goes way down. Exceptions are 'off the grid' locations (but they get only the simple oneoff dish for national tv, while waiting for fibre) and expatriates wanting their home country tv, f.ex. in Norway lots of workers from Poland etc, one can always spot which house they live in by looking at the dish\lnb setup.

As for hobby\enthusiasts, it will continue but compared to before lots less imo, as young people have no interest\no idea about it so no recruits lining up. Have tried to introduce sat to friends who got excellent location for dishes + money to buy anything needed, showing them freesat etc, they find it interesting and impressive, would be nice to have etc etc, bu zero interest to actually do something.

& an example, a Norwegian sat forum that was very active in it's heydays, look at the posting dates now... Satellitt

About the forum, am sometimes (quite often actually) finding it irritating to navigate, the overkill amount of boards in a quite muddy structural layout (imo). Often am not posting due to having to dig too much \ way too many clicks time trying to find the intended\best place\board. Apart from this, have been, and still is, and excellent and immensely helpful place for knowledge, fun & news.