Recent content by mr_rye89

Thats pretty sick. It got darker here (Albuquerque) than I thought it would, but it didn't get very dark during the one back in October either (and we were right under it!)

I just did the online practice tests until I couldn't see straight, passed my General pretty easy that way. I have an IC-706mkii, MFJ Versatuner, and a big horizontal loop fed with ladder line for HF, and a J pole built outta junk for 2M. With the loop and 100 watts I can talk to most of the...

I'm also a rabid audiophool and have been wheelin' and dealin' stereo gear, I have way too many speakers, amps, etc. I'm selling underused/redundant gear so I can buy that MiniDSP Flex 8 HTx to use as my preamp/eq/DAC/active crossover. I'm also putting together an off grid solar system so that's...

Don't give up! This one is tricky. Ironically I finally got it when I motorized my 90cm dish.

I think I have one in the shed. Came on one of the scrap picked dishes I got back in October

Still here, just fell asleep. I ought ta chase feeds, I put that Geosat 90 on a motor......

The hail damage on that my 7.5 Winegard looks worse than that and it works just fine.

It seems to work as good as the 8.5 spun dish despite being smaller. Still got a little tweaking to do but this one is a keeper. Not worried about the 5G cuz it’s behind a house with a pro panel roof

I have it most of the way up. That nice light reflector was easy to toss on the mount by myself. That bit of metal in the center is a burned out “NO DUMPING” sign i pilfered out of the recycle pile at work, the paint on it is drying now……

The 90cm dish came with a 7.5 ft Winegard mesh dish lol. Somebody junked their FTA setup and I grabbed it.

I transplanted that sg 2100 to my 90cm Geosat and it works great for being on a wobbly crooked pole lol, and I tested that actuator that came with the mesh dish and it works great! Looks to have a hall sensor and a limit switch. I don’t know about the polorotor feed, my vbox doesn’t have...

Found this and 90cm dish with an SG-2100 on it “free for scrap” on CL. The mount says Winegard, feed cover says KTI, has a nice Chaparral feed/rotor with C and Ku LNBs, actuator is present, but I think I’m missing a plate that goes in the middle of the 4 sections of dish

I remember back in ‘96 when my dad installed an RCA DirecTV dish and receiver, I was like 6 or 7 and seeing Cartoon Network’s early days was pretty awesome. We recorded a lot of ppv movies to VHS back then…….

Necro thread alert! I have been enjoying this dish for over 2 years, I did get a vbox to move it but my actuator is crude with its 3 magnets on the main wheel, reed switch, and NO limit switches. Let’s just say it loses counts. Anyways a few weeks ago I decided to move it to the east to make...

I’d hate to get a new one and the counts be off. Mine doesn’t hold a count but it has 3 magnets and a reed switch, “good enough” for analog I guess. It’s a big beefy actuator and works well otherwise