AMC4 101W

**flashfluud1** · 11-11-2009 09:38 PM

ok,
I will admit, I am a fta junkie.
I have two 36inch dishes one on amc4 and one on amc21.
My brother has a 36inch direct tv hd dish.
however it is only 36inches wide on the horizontal plane (oval).
probably only 20inches tall.
you guys know what I am talking about.
do you think it would work on amc4 12060 H since it is a horizontal signal
sounds good on paper, has anyone ever tried it.
these dishes are relatively easy to get as people move out of their houses.
could it even work for a vertical polarity if you rotated the dish so the long side is vertical. It may save some $$ on a new 36inch dish.

**flashfluud1** · 11-11-2009 10:07 PM

I would be using my own univeral ku band lnb

**lllbob** · 11-11-2009 10:43 PM

A 36 inch DTV dish with a ku band lnb on it.
Hmm.. I never tried it.. I bet someone here has though.

It's probably equal to the 18inch dish. But oval so it can get the other circular sats.
So it's probably still gonna be to small of a focus on the ku-lnb.

But I guess it would be fun mounting the ku lnb on there though. :-)
It won't cost nothing but some of your time to try it.
Oh and polarity has nothing to do with a dish's position.

Look around for some old junked primestar dishes.

**turbosat** · 11-11-2009 11:21 PM

Read post #32 in this thread, with pictures:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air...-dishes-4.html (SO I scored a couple Primestar Dishes)

**putney** · 11-12-2009 12:14 AM

I've seen quite a few Homesat 87cm dishes available since Bob Jones University stopped doing sat feeds.

Cheap to free. Look around.

**B.J.** · 11-12-2009 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by flashfluud1

ok,
I will admit, I am a fta junkie.
I have two 36inch dishes one on amc4 and one on amc21.
My brother has a 36inch direct tv hd dish.
however it is only 36inches wide on the horizontal plane (oval).
probably only 20inches tall.
you guys know what I am talking about.
do you think it would work on amc4 12060 H since it is a horizontal signal
sounds good on paper, has anyone ever tried it.
these dishes are relatively easy to get as people move out of their houses.
could it even work for a vertical polarity if you rotated the dish so the long side is vertical. It may save some $$ on a new 36inch dish.

It doesn't matter whether the transponder is horizontal or vertical. They are pretty much reflected by the dish in the same way. With most LNBFs, the LNBF will only see the dish as a 18" dish. The only way you'd get the benefit out of the 36" width is if you had an LNBF that had an oblong view of the dish rather than a circular view. A normal FTA generally wouldn't see the whole dish, or if it could, it would pick up a lot of noise too.

I'm curious about this 36x20" DTV dish. The HD DTV dish I have is only about 18" tall by a bit over 20" wide, if I remember right. Nowhere close to 36". Although my dish is only for 101,110,119, and I know that DTV has several new sats up there now. I thought that the DirecTV dishes that were 36" were the ones made for the foreign language signals that are on the regular linear band, but that they were much taller than 20". Is this really wide dish so wide so that it can pick up 4 or 5 different sats or something? Just curious.