[mythtvnz] Satellites?

[Steven Ellis]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 10:42 am, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> [Apologies if this is a duplicate, my email client got very confused.]
>
> Hi Steven,
>
> On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 15:15 +1200, Steven Ellis wrote:
>> As we are moving I'm having similar thoughts.
>>
>> At the moment I'm doing D1 + D2 + C1/D3 on my toroidal but I seldom
>> watch
>> anything other than D1.
>
> That was kind of my feeling after looking through the available channels
> on lyngsat.
>
> Right, I'll just get a LNB for D1 for now and a 90cm dish (not that much
> more than a 60cm dish).  That'll make the budget happier!
>
>> I'd love to get BBC World and the Australian Network which might just
>> about be possible with the Toroidal, but it will then make cabling
>> interesting.
>
> Heh, you just need to run more cable!  ;)
>
>> One other thought is to get a known working DVB-S2 card for some of the
>> other OZ channels off D1.
>
> Yeah, I think that'll be a project for the future.
>
> PS. There is a photo of call the Cat6 and RG6 coming out of the wall for
> the comms cabinet here on this blog post that my wife wrote earlier in
> the week:
>
> http://blog.etc.gen.nz/index.php?/archives/118-More-of-a-house-than-a-construction-site.html
>
> I'll post a blog about the cabling etc once we've t

Nice.. I've got a good run of 20 cable strands running out of the wall in
our current house. Need to buy a reel of cable for the new place.

Steve

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