Thread: 40" C/Ku - Band Dish

Originally Posted by CharredPC

Oh, and Pete... by the looks of it, you're going to have to find and start stocking C/Ku lnb's for us to buy for these setups

I agree, I definately want one now

I've got a DirecPC dish sitting in the shed just BEGGING to be let out and try this! One day, 16 hours and these blasted ebay auctions will be over, and I'll have the paypal $ to get Pete to send me a DMS ASC421 C-LNBF... Then I can begin my own experiments

It WOULD be so much easier to use a single C/Ku lnb... I plan on trying some crazy dual lnb setup, but seeing how big the feedhorn is on the C-band lnb, I doubt a Ku could get close enough on focus to work well Anyone found a place to buy them, other that the occassional 15+ year old spares off BUD's on ebay?

Originally Posted by PSB

I can easily merge the thread if there is any uproar/mutany.

Bring me the head of PBS!!!

The more the merrier I say
The ASC421 is a prime-focus LNBF.
Bete, try scanning AMC1 and 4, see if that throws anything up.

lets leave it as two threads....

Damn...now I need to see if I can get my C-Band LNBF working

Pete or Cascade.....the LNB goes as far back as you can get it? I'll have to see how I can get that to work on mine

Before my sigmeter went the way of Voom I noticed that if the scalar ring was as far forward in the LNBF throat as possible it'd give the best sig.
I tried the LNBF about 4 inches behind the scalar ring with an air gap between them and my sig level went crazy.

The only thing I think we really need to work on is the focal distance, a prime-focus LNBF is miles away from the dish compared to a small offset and that makes a huge difference.

gotcha

I guess i'll aim at a satellite with KU and then try swapping out the C-Band

AnikF1 is very strong and has some nice channels ITC.

but there is nothing on KU to get

I'll probably aim at G11, T6, G3 or T5 first

I think I was aiming at G4R............... nothing much there!