On Jan 26, 2005, at 11:15 AM, James Johnson wrote:
FCC requires an FCC licensed installer on satellite uplink equipment; I don't have the time to get licensed.
What kind of license? Restricted RadioTelephone just requires you to be familiar with the FCC rules on whatever you
are working on and you must speak fluent english.
When the bird at Star Band was down for a few days, some of the users took the course, it's online and while I have not looked at it myself, the reports back that I read, a Saturday afternoon, some basic logic, and little bit of hmm really and you pass the course. Kinda like turn the radar off when you taxi the Citation in so you do not radiate the fuel guy, very small amount, they all wear tinfoil./ Nobody said, this was too hard. It was, wow great, I can do it myself and I have a installers number from #Band and I am F.C.C. legal. Very Important
That gives you the ability to put the pole in the ground with concrete, level it, put the dish on, run the wire from the LNB, point the dish at the right bird, provided by # Band, not your neighbors poodle. This is where IMHO a $250.00 or less investment really helps. You can do it with a $5.00 compass, by Lat and Long and angle with a computer and moving the dish tiny microns for the peak signal, tighten the bolts.
Or buy a box that tells you the exact bird your on, GE 4 in my case. Very important a lot of birds and close together up there. The signal tone screams as you get on or off the beam. You then call #Band and they give you the 3 other numbers i.e;. cluster 009 sub cluster 6 and 50. They have like modems in the bird. One main one, the one uplink and the one downlink for your account. You put these numbers in the alloted space on your account profile, the 480 modem does a light dance and beam me up Scotty. Pretty much that's it.
The beam is tight, Dish Network TV will knock you on the head. This one very tight, so thus the "recommendation" to buy a box, bird dog seems to be popular one. You can do roof mounts. I just went through a rain and wind storm that snapped a 60 foot 20 year old eucalyptus tree at the base like a match stick with winds from the S/S.W. and the dish came through fine, thats where it's pointed S/SW. I watched the cells coming in on NWS.
Please Note
" This is not complete directions. Not legal advice, I am not a qualified installer, to do this correctly requires a
F.C.C. permit, do not connect this without an F.C.C. permit, it is illegal and I am sure I missed a step or 2 "
I am in Cal. S.D. the most wired place and I could get nothing. I could but SBC owns 50% of the line, it's 50% full. To fulfill an order SBC has to do it even if it's a different company. I was 2,500 away from the box. I had the phone guy out here, SBC and he was on the pole and I asked him to do a DSL check. Oh ya it's singing he said, but make sure they send someone out, don't go by the test on your computer, it's the same one they use in the office. No use, SBC would not dispatch a DSL line checker for SBC or any other company.
Sincerely, Dennis Oroville, California
I think that SBC stands for Slippery Bunch of Crooks...I was on the SBC payroll for a short time.
James Johnson
Arlington, Texas
The SBC line man was as nice as could be, however he could not step over the Phone / DSL - DMZ, did not want to leave his name and when SBC DSL heard me say the phone line man got a good signal, whoaa, what was his name, what work order, slipped my mind. Spooky.
When it was Pac Bell, the people I leased the house too had DSL since 96- 1998 ?, signed a waiver saying I am 500 feet past the 2000 foot limit and if get speeds below ### I will not whine. Ran fine.
So, I took a week long SBC telephone tour around the world. Calling everyone from New York to Bombay, to Indonesia to a place I never heard of in Pacifica. Finally back to L.A. where a lady who must have smoked 3 Lucky Strikes at a time, said while lighting the other; kid, we got 50% of the line and it's full for us, if you can find someone to put in the DSL you got it. Really!! I said who does the line check, we do (SBC), will you send someone out no, even if I pay, no. Finally the truth SBC limits competition.
So off on another weeks telephone/28k journey to find someone to please give me DSL or whatever. Sort of interesting, all the small upstarts and different technology that their trying and really need. 50% of the country does not have HSI access.
One in Denver and S.D places little transceivers on top of the light poles every 1500 feet apart, so if you live in the I-15 corridor in S.D.to 30 miles North and the I-5 you can get wireless in your car or home. They guy who put up the Dish Network dual LNBs used it. Some reason the last tenants decided to cut the wire and take the dish ??? He said I work all along the 1-15 and lived in Jamual and got good reception about 300k 400k speeds. Road Runner, not "that" road runner a smaller just out of or in bankruptcy, Denver based R.R.. I am 7 miles due east from I-15 but high on a mountain side, the map showed me just out of range. Plus I wanted something that hopefully worked in AK. Interesting, frustrating but i am wired
Good luck and health
Geoff
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