There’s a lot to learn about cables. Before we go too far, we need to look at the parts of a cable and why they’re important. Center Conductor The center conductor, marked “D” in the…
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So last night I finally went and saw it. I admit that for some reason, I’ve been far less jazzed about The Last Jedi than about prior Star Wars films. Blame that on over-exposure: there was a movie each of…
Are you using the best cable for the job? You may have heard terms like RG59, RG6, RG11, and Slim RG59 but you didn’t know what they meant. There is actually a real difference between these…
My router is in my home office, surrounded by a mountain of cables. I’d love to put it in the attic more centrally located. I could run an ethernet cable up there, but I’m more worried…
A handful of streaming services have announced some improvements in the dwindling days of 2017. Talk about coming in under the wire! Amazon, DIRECTV NOW, and Hulu know how to go out in style. These three…
Here’s the quick answer to the title question: If you have purchased your phone recently, it’s probably unlocked. But if you’ve had it for a while or if you’re planning to purchase a used phone, you…
If you’re looking for the ultimate resource for frequencies in use by different broadcasters, you’ve come to the right place. Our PDF showing common frequencies used by radio, television, satellite, and government has been fully updated!…
It’s great that cars come with USB ports now. It’s an easy way to charge any phone and it’s also a way for your friends to play music through your car stereo without having to permanently…
You might find this logo attached to some of the most popular parts at Solid Signal’s web site. Don’t believe me? Check it out. We have hundreds of parts from the Tech Choice catalog, and they’re all…
Used to be, the lights came on at the end of the movie and there was absolutely no reason to sit through a list of maybe 1,000 people’s names for 6-7 minutes. Now, it seems like…
It’s quite a thing. In a late announcement today, AT&T revealed that tonight’s Pittsburgh Penguins game vs. the Las Vegas Golden Knights will be broadcast in 4K HDR, the first broadcast of its kind from a…
You’ve probably seen the above image… an episode of The Simpsons predicted this move about 20 years ago. Of course that show has been producing about 20 hours of television a year for about 30 years so they’re…
If you use wireless Genie clients, listen up Forbes is reporting that these devices are incredibly easy to hack and that your whole network could be vulnerable. Let’s dig into that claim and let’s talk about why you…
I get it… prepaid cell phones still have a bit of a “reputation” with some people. They’re thought of as “burner” phones, the kind of things that a dicey character from a TV show would speak…
It’s up there. In fact pretty much every communications satellite ever launched is still up there. A few hundred miles above the “geostationary” band where communications satellites serve their useful days is a growing graveyard of…