Hello Christopher!
Wednesday February 04 1998 20:49, Christopher Tarana wrote to John Aldrich:
 CT>         That's a very good point.  I wonder if the Y2K problem will
 CT> factor into IRD's?  I wonder how well they handle the Millenium Factor?
Heh. Hmm...good question. I would *guess* they couldn't care less about what 
day or year it is...now your VCII+ board might... :) I still wish they'd use 
FLASHROMs in the silly things... :)
 JA>> We're always having to auto-tune our Chapparal receivers...they never
 JA>> stay in correct position for long... :(
 CT>         I've never liked the Chapparals I've worked with much.  I prefer
 CT> the older Zenith line myself.  But even a Zenith will need ZAP(tm)ping
 CT> more often if the dish isn't true.  Do they always go off in the same
 CT> direction or does it vary?  How are the station's dish maintainence
 CT> procedures, is there a policy of regularly inspecting the dish mount
 CT> itself or just when there is a problem?
Well, we have a Toshiba receiver that's BEAUTIFUL! It never needs 
tweaking...OTOH, it won't auto-switch to KU-band, so if you want to record 
anything on KU-band, you *have* to have the remote...the Chapparal receivers 
are nicer that way...but as I said, they have a tendancy to "drift" and about 
once a week (approximately) the engineer will come in and auto-tweak the 
dishes. We have never really had to inspect the dish mounts...I think in the 
seven years I've worked at that facility, we've had ONE problem with 
hardware..and that was a pole that rusted and broke.. :)
        John
... Bakers do it but you have to give them flours first.
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