The Education:

I am a graduate of electronics engineering with one year of mechanical engineering; I had worked for Codex Corporation that was bought by Motorola years ago. I was the R & D technician that interfaced new products into the production environment troubleshooting down to chip level. Ex. 6010 multiplexer cost $25,000; know known as a router cost now $99.00. Also 9600 baud modems cost $10,000, now $9.00 or free with rebate.

The Satellite Experience:

For many years I had tinkered with satellite reception, especially when visiting my cousin’s beach house in Malibu California, she had a 16 ft. paraclips dish and a 12 ft. in Hidden Hills. The last 7 years I had dived into its reception with great absorption of the hobby. This turnaround was due to the fact that when my son was getting older, around 5 years old , Barney on PBS was not cutting it for him any more. After researching my options and while some European channels was FTA on S4 I had installed my BUD "Big useful dish ".

Jimmy "Demetrios"

Satellite Equipment Used:

Dishes:
12 ft. Orbitron Dish C Band h/v & Ku Band h/v tracking all satellites from W7 through T11
10 ft. Perfect Ten Fixed Circular on C1,TDRS 6,I605 or Columbia 515
7 1/2 ft. Channel Master C Band h/v & Ku Band h/v fixed on NSS 7
1 meter Winegard fixed on Telstar 12
4 Winegard 76 cm.
Azure Shine 90 cm.
Winegard 48 cm.

Receivers: USED
Motorola 4DTV 920
Satcruiser 101
DMT-1050
BEC 6600+
Zinwell 9111
Coship 3188c
Coship 2300b
BEC 2000
Traxis 2500
Fortec Lifetime Ultra

Computer Equipment:

Antec 830 Tower case
Samsung 955DF 19in monitor
Abit Kt7a-raid
AMD Thundrebird 1.2ghz overclocked to 1.475 ghz
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon DV
Crucial 256mb CL-2 ram
2-IBM 60 gb 7200rpm drives
1-Western Digital 80gb
Creative soundblaster live-value
Pioneer DVR-108
Plextor 16/10/40a
Cdrom 50x
Lynksys 550tx ethernet
Toshiba PCx1100 Cable modem
Cox Broadband 4mb/s down - 512K upload