SNR DB level question

[Phainein]

interpreting written statutes and regulations leads to so much confusion.

Lawyers do it all the time, and then charge their clients for their blunders of not knowing previous case law and/or statutes/regs/etc

[Phainein]

install my own LP equipment.

All one needs is a leak down test....its the liability issue is their concern.

[Phainein]

Federal offence

I've only heard of people getting busted when they setup a dish on the ground in RV parks, camping spots, etc. Not the alignment/etc., but setting up dish on the ground level, where potential RF exists to "zap" humans.

[PlugNickel]

I've only heard of people getting busted when they setup a dish on the ground in RV parks, camping spots, etc. Not the alignment/etc., but setting up dish on the ground level, where potential RF exists to "zap" humans.

And yet notice the pictures, especially on page 4 of this ViaSat portable SurfBeam2 ProPortable .pdf

http://www.viasat.com/files/assets/S...le_010_web.pdf

[MarkTwain]

Originally Posted by MarkTwain
interpreting written statutes and regulations leads to so much confusion.

Lawyers do it all the time, and then charge their clients for their blunders of not knowing previous case law and/or statutes/regs/etc

Supreme Court Justices interpret all the time and often don't agree by 5 to 4.

As a government attorney I charged no one anything. In my private legal practice, every single case I had was on contingency where I charged nothing if I lost and took one-third if I won. I handled only medical malpractice cases always on the patient’s side against doctors and hospitals. In all my years of practice I never lost a single case, but then I did screen potential clients carefully for legitimate claims and the majority were settled out of court to the client’s satisfaction. There really aren’t many statutes in malpractice law and case law is rarely cited. Most arguments are over the meaning of one word, ‘negligent’ and those don’t occur too often since the negligence is usually obvious to the jury like amputating the wrong foot. My lowest fee was over a half mil so needless to say I made more money my first month in private practice than I did in 14 years of government work.

A lawyer can be sued for a blunder (malpractice) just like a doctor. To win you only need to prove two elements, damage and negligence. I would have accepted a legal malpractice case if one had turned up. I don’t think much of lawyers or doctors (or preachers).

I’m finding it harder and harder to see what all this has to do with aiming your own dish by SNR only. While I’ve had dogs chew up many things including live power cords I’ve never seen one that could move a properly installed dish by pulling on the cable including my 120-lb Dobies.

[Phainein]

I’m finding it harder and harder to see what all this has to do with aiming your own dish by SNR only.

Humans make mistakes...all. Being a "trained specialist" does not insure quality workmanship, each and every install.

With ViaSat's audio tuning method, even I could not aim the dish correctly; I have a 60 dB hearing loss in the higher frequency used, and can not hear all tones used.

With the system they have in place, a DIY tune could be monitored, just as an installer's aiming is monitored. Adjusting the dish is not complicated; its three adjustments that could be explained via Youtube video, as done in England.