It has barely warmed up enough outside for me to begin my next C-Band project. Never one to be called a "Settler", I'm testing two Norsat 3420 LNB's bolted to a Chaparral 2 in 1 Feedhorn; that's affixed to my motorized 1.2M dish using a metal Geosatpro LNBF Clamp. I'm still in the initial testing stages using my Manhattan 1997 receiver, and so far it is performing better than originally expected. It has been very cloudy, stormy and rainy here for the past week, but somehow the signals are still coming in between 54%-65% quality on various channels and satellites. I figured the feedhorn would be too short to use on this dish, and the signals would be very low to none initially. I still have to take pics and run more tests with other receivers.
Initial tests on the 1997 receiver show that I do NOT have to set individual polarity Sats as long as I am using a Polarity Multiswitch from Geosatpro. I can leave the setting on 13/18V and it will blind scan both polarities as before. I have blind scanned two satellites and both polarities come in with lots of channels. I want to wait for a clear sunny day to finally blind scan for real results.
Yes, the whole LNBF apparatus sags down the 1.2M dish with the extra weight, so you have to compensate by raising your dish elevation while checking your meter(s). It's best to have two individual meters for each LNB Polarity to make sure both are being dialed in at the same time correctly; the batteries will drain quickly however. The Satlink meters will show a low Signal Quality reading at first, which had me concerned, but later the TV showed a much different signal strength. I will probably have more tweaking to do in the near future.
Let me know if your interested in what I find, and I will make a new thread later on as time allows. If not, it's no big deal.
Initial tests on the 1997 receiver show that I do NOT have to set individual polarity Sats as long as I am using a Polarity Multiswitch from Geosatpro. I can leave the setting on 13/18V and it will blind scan both polarities as before. I have blind scanned two satellites and both polarities come in with lots of channels. I want to wait for a clear sunny day to finally blind scan for real results.
Yes, the whole LNBF apparatus sags down the 1.2M dish with the extra weight, so you have to compensate by raising your dish elevation while checking your meter(s). It's best to have two individual meters for each LNB Polarity to make sure both are being dialed in at the same time correctly; the batteries will drain quickly however. The Satlink meters will show a low Signal Quality reading at first, which had me concerned, but later the TV showed a much different signal strength. I will probably have more tweaking to do in the near future.
Let me know if your interested in what I find, and I will make a new thread later on as time allows. If not, it's no big deal.
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