"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Deke wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Deke wrote:

And this is relevant in what way to my complete satisfaction with
Dish,
and the fact that local Mediacom service stinks?


Only that you have your head where the sun doesn't shine. Dish is
far from perfect, and you have a hard-on for cable TV.


BTW, have you installed a three lnb satellite dish lately?


Have you ever converted a five meter dish from Cassegrain to prime
focus and installed four LNAs. The original feed horn had to be
removed
and lowered down the side of a hill by rope. It weighed over 125
pounds. Then cut three slots in the dish while hanging from a sling?
That conversion took five full eight hour days with three workers.
Your
three LNB feed is child's play.


And yet you say you had a three day outage. Interesting.


Not interesting, unless you consider low visiblity from very heavy
fog interesting.

Interesting because I've never lost signal in thick fog...for three days.


Who said anything about "collecting TV shows"? I just don't watch muich
live. Its recorded, then viewed, skipping the commercials, then deleted.


Show that I am a horder then.

No need, you already have. Thats not necessarily a bad thing, my dad was a
"collector" also.



The spare parts are used to repair computers for the other Disabled
Veterans in my area. I also help low income and other disabled people
get a computer or to keep their working. I don't charge them for
labor,
and tell them where to buy any parts they need. I would rather build
or
repair something than park my ass in front of a TV and stuff my face
like so many drooling idiots. I prefer to read, than watch TV.


Good for you. Since you have already mentioned your guest house, your
large
collection of tools, your 1200 sq ft work shop, your help for veterans
and
the disabled, I'm guessing I'm supposed to be awed and impressed.


I don't care if you even noticed. I have what I need to do what I
want to and am still physically able to. I bought the place becasue of
the large shop building when I was still working full time, with the
intent to restore old radios and test equipment when I retired. My
retired dad lived here for a few years, as well and I needed some of
that space for his woodworking tools.


I applaud your altruism, but I downsized years ago (1997 actually) when I
retired. Now I only volunteer for the Red Cross.


Good for you. The Red Cross was supposed to be helping people around
here after a couple hurricanes, but they rarely lived up to their
promises. Like FEMA, they would announce that they would serve hot meals
or do something else at a set time. If you went, their trucks either
weren't there or were locked up and no one was around.


The VA declared that I could no longer work. I still have my
hobbies, and i really don;t care if anyone is impressed. I don't do it
for that reason. I have always gone out of my way to help others, it's
how I was raised.

Then why mention your guest house, your tools, and your 1200 sq ft shop?

So? I used to work for the military.


So? I was a US Army broadcast engineer for AFRTS. I tested out of
the three year school while in Basic training at Ft Knox.


Bully for you, but how is that relevant to the fact that local Mediacom
service sucks?


How is your fixation on Mediacom relevant to anything?

I'm not fixated on Mediacom nearly as much as you are fixated on defending
it.

Interesting that Mediacom is now offering their phone and internet
service
bundle WITHOUT the cable service, to satellite customers.


And? Phone companies have offered internet & TV for years. You can
get 'naked DSL' from the phone company as well.

And more and more people are dropping Mediacom, in my area. They are also
going back to the Bell companies for phone service. Costs more, but it
works when the power goes out.


Any port in a storm, eh?


What storm?

The one that gives you signal disrupting heavy fog for three straight days?

--
You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a Band-AidT on it, because it's
Teflon coated.

Indeed. Nor can it spell....