THROWBACK THURSDAY: Restoring the future

It’s a 50-year-old chunk of wood that doesn’t fly and can’t even stand up by itself. For a while it was considered garbage. Now it’s in the Smithsonian. I’m talking about the original large-scale model of…


The king of all signal meters: Televes H60

This is the one meter you drool over. The Televes H60 is a spectrum analyzer par excellence, with the ability to read and understand most forms of cable and satellite signals. It’s the meter of…


Cord-Cutters: Know Your Football Options

A partnership between ESPN and Campus Insiders will deliver the 2016 college football season to more streamers and cord-cutters. While this is great news, Solid Signal brings even more pro and college football to those who…


Back-to-School With Solid Signal

When it comes to back to school shopping, our parents did NOT have it harder than us. Ask any of today’s parents currently doing college shopping. When it came to school, my parents had a flair…



September is National Cookout Month

September is the perfect time for cookouts and BBQs. That’s why everyone here at Solid Signal has named it National Cookout Month. My kids and I love to go to the pool at our condo…



Televes shows off amplifiers

Our friends at Televes show us their latest amplifier technology, the Nanokom. Nanokom is an advanced distribution amplifier system designed for indoor installation. This is an advanced peek at a product that’s not available in the…



So long, Pivot TV. Another channel bites the dust.

After a lifespan of only two years, millennial-focused channel “Pivot” announced yesterday that they’ll be shutting down at the end of the year. It’s another failure driven by the fact that millennials just don’t watch as much linear…