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  1. One of the satelite guys (Chris Wilkes) at the Ralph responded with the following about our consistant request to "turn up the power":

    "The theory about everything working better last year at the old

    coordinates so the power must be down at the UpLink is not true. The

    UpLink facility is running 3dB or more hotter than last year (as

    directed to do so by PanAm Sat). FYI, 3dB is double the power. The

    UpLink facility can not just turn up the power. A satellite signal

    loading is like balancing act. It is set and monitored very

    carefully by skilled personnel."

    They also recommended going to a larger dish:

    "The one recommendation I have is a larger dish if possible. If it

    can be installed by yourself it can also be more economical than anything

    else. A doubling the sizes of the dish will give you roughly 6 dB of gain

    over the small dish. My guess is that you have about 5.5 dB signal

    to noise receiving the UND signal. Doubling the size of the dish would

    get you around 12 dB signal to noise or more. (being conservative).

    Also, doubling the size of the dish gives you a narrower beam width.

    This means that signals on adjacent satellites will not interfere as

    much."

    The Ralph would also like someone to do the following:

    "Would it be possible for someone to verify the signal to noise with a Spectrum Analyzer? This cold help greatly in pinning down the difficulty."

  2. It's no more lame than, when the Kohl Center announcer says "Both teams at full strength," the Bucky fans yell "That's debatable!"

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    EVEN MORE WORSE AND LAME is that goofer fans do both of these, and follow it up with a spelling competition...

  3. LOL...Well, there's actually getting to be a larger contingent of Mavs fans on USCHO. Unfortunately, it's not showing up in the form of attendance at the MWCC.

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    If the Sioux were not playing CC on Jan 14, I would love to go cheer for the Mavs against the goofers at the Xcel center. Of course I would be wearing a Sioux jersey. I might also do this for the Dogs when they play the goofers in minneapolis on Jan 28th, when we are playing the Beavers.

  4. So fun to see the WCHA doing so well with 5 of the top 8 teams!

    Team (First Place) Record Pts Last Week

    1 Minnesota (36) 10-3-0 596 3

    2 Boston College (2) 6-2-2 527 4

    3 Colorado College (2) 10-2-0 512 5

    4 Wisconsin 10-4-0 503 2

    5 Michigan 9-4-1 440 1

    6 North Dakota 9-5-2 353 7

    7 Denver 8-5-0 309 10

    8 New Hampshire 8-3-2 307 6

    9 Ohio State 9-4-1 282 9

    10 Maine 9-6-1 267 8

    11 Vermont 8-4-3 202 15

    12 Cornell 5-2-2 151 14

    13 Colgate 10-4-0 100 NR

    14 Minnesota-Duluth 7-5-2 93 12

    15 Northern Michigan 6-4-2 56 13

  5. I bought a PC to Video cable (http://grandtec.com/ultimateEZ.htm) that just converts your monitor signal to a RCA style video cable. This works great and does not require S-video cards in your PC, nor S-video on your older/cheaper TV's.

    You will also need a cheap audio converter to convert from your PC head phone jack to the RCA style jack on your TV or Stereo. There are also fancier audio converters, but the audio signal over the web is very low quality, so you are not losing anything.

    All of the above can be done, but if you are going to watch a lot of games I would just buy the satelite system or find a local bar that will tune the games in. For me watching the games on your TV is better than a PC, and watching at a bar is better yet.

  6. Does anyone know why Joe Sensor's in Bloomington, MN will not have tonights game on their satelite system? For us Sioux fans in Minneapolis, Sensors is basically The Ralph South on weekend nights. They carried all the games they could last year.

    They said that UND changed the satelite coordinates a couple of weeks ago, and now they will need to get new dishes installed. Couldn't they just reposition the existing dishes? For you satelite installers, you might be able to get some work if you can fix their problem. Give them a call at 952-835-1191. Please!!!

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