DirecPC Dish - Wow! Awesome Dish!

**Davage** · 05-20-2008 08:15 AM

I had a DirecPC dish given to me. It's the 76cm model. Wow - What a cool dish! I bought a multi-LNB holder that I'm mounting to it. I've been able to get good useable signal from 72 to 101 on the dish in a fixed position

My plan is to get 97, 87 and 72 all on the same reflector - and it appears as though it is going to work. I just need some warmer dry weather to come along so that I can finish getting the LNBs set up and tweaked. (I'll post pictures after I've got the setup complete)

**Iceberg** · 05-20-2008 08:32 AM

cool

Yeah those DPC dishes are really sweet. Use to have a 37x27 DPC dish and had a few LNB's on it

If I can get 72W stable on a 18" dish, surely you can get it on an offset

**olliec420** · 05-20-2008 10:15 AM

72 on an 18"? get outa here, for real? hehe

**Iceberg** · 05-20-2008 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by olliec420

72 on an 18"? get outa here, for real? hehe

just did it this weekend

http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air...6-18-dish.html (AMC6 on a 18" dish)

**Stargazer** · 05-21-2008 01:39 AM

What is the most orbital slots that one can pickup on a satellite? If he can pickup 72 to 97 that is 25 degrees. If that was possible then 72-105 could be possible and 110-148 might be possible as well. Don't the dual reflector dishes make it possible to receive more orbital locations? I have not seen Dish consider using one of those for a while now.

**Anole** · 05-21-2008 01:55 AM

Originally Posted by Stargazer

110-148 might be possible

Our member, NetBuilder, has the
110-148 on a single dish

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All that and 123º G10r at the focal point, too.
edit: and he used a 39"x23" DirecWay Dish.

Not as big a challenge when you're only looking for high powered circular birds.
Getting the spread on linear sats is more of a problem.

**Iceberg** · 05-21-2008 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by Stargazer

What is the most orbital slots that one can pickup on a satellite? If he can pickup 72 to 97 that is 25 degrees. If that was possible then 72-105 could be possible and 110-148 might be possible as well. Don't the dual reflector dishes make it possible to receive more orbital locations? I have not seen Dish consider using one of those for a while now.

if you're using a Toroidal dish (the dual reflector) you can feasibly get 40 degrees. I use to have 72-111.1W on my T90.....and actually added a piece of wood on the arm to get 119 too...the 72-111 was all linear

72,74,79,85,89,93,97,101,107,111

**Davage** · 05-21-2008 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by Iceberg

if you're using a Toroidal dish (the dual reflector) you can feasibly get 40 degrees. I use to have 72-111.1W on my T90.....and actually added a piece of wood on the arm to get 119 too...the 72-111 was all linear

72,74,79,85,89,93,97,101,107,111

Wow - I guess I did pretty good by getting 72 to 101 on a DirecPC dish

The Toroidal dish only got 10 more degrees..

The weather has been too darn cold and wet to be able to spend any amount of time the past few days on tweaking the multi-LNB holders to see what the signal qualities will be like. I'll take some pictures and post the signal results after the weather co-operates.

**cracklincrotch** · 05-21-2008 08:14 PM

I've got 74 through 119 on my T90 right now for 45 degrees without any mods. Haven't been able to squeeze 72 in quite yet. Best I'd been able to do before now was 82 through 123 for 41 degrees. Just a question of how to skew to squeeze more in but maintain some kind of signal quality. Every time I adjust it it gets better. Could be because of the warmer weather I'm not in such a hurry.

**Stargazer** · 05-21-2008 10:36 PM

Wouldn't it be nice to get 61.5 to 119 all on one dish? 61.5 to 129 would be even better but that is probably really pushing it. I have several Primestar dishes and an old home school dish that is even bigger and round.