Mike:
I just got in a 20' lenght of 2/18, 6/22, item code #301 from the wireman (one of your suggestions). It is really nice stuff.
Now, I wanna replace all of the cable
The wire is marked even marked "Certified quality from the Wireman Inc. Rotorcable UV Resistant p/n CQ301 1041410 00## XFT" It's even marked incrementally along the jacket in feet for the amount I ordered. A very class act.
I can see the install/fix taking a while though. First, I'll have to take the control box to the roof and see if I can get the rotor to move. Then figure out a way to attach it better since the rotor is made for flat wire. Removing the rotor will be a disaster if I have to do it.
So, I don't know what I'm getting myself into.
Thanks,
KISS
PS: I see you don't like PM's? In any event, your an asset to the forum. I have a couple of new toys to play with right now: A commercial grade tuner that demodulates just about anything thrown at it. I'm throwing ATSC at it. It includes the ability to receive IPTV as well which is I briefly checked out. It has a very nice html remote and an IR remote. It can also be controlled via a serial port supposedly.
I'm giving the company a very good workout because I keep finding bugs and suggesting enhancements. So far, they have been receptive. By receptive, I mean, there excuse for stuff is "It's a commercial product". There is just a slew of issues and the most annoying one is it only knows how to tell time during certain parts of the day. 12:05 PM is 00:25 PM.
It reports signal strength in dbm and the s/n ratio in db. Real numbers.
They don't have to fix everything I throw at them. I does not report the physical channel. Instead it reports the Center frequency in MHz. It doesn't wrap "the dial". Well, it actually wraps by one and then gets stuck. Channel Remote entry doesn't show progress on the tuner itself, but does on the on screen display. Closed captioning and the EPG have issues.
It's annoying that you must enter the decimal point and you can't manually tune. i.e. Enter a physical channel and the it doesn't tune to the corresponding virtual channel doesn't. That appears to be an FCC requirement that they don't meet.
My other new toy is still in the box: A 4xHDMI to 4xATSC / 4xIPTV server.