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If you are going to only occasionally have a reason to move the antenna, how about a 30 dollar solution? A common trailer jack with a hand crank. If you could track the satellite arc with this manually, you would be missing nothing but the convenience of getting to control it from indoors...

New information: The Internet Archive has made major progress on digitizing much of Bob's materials, that were stored in Denver since 2018; picking them up in July 2024. I completed an inventory on the collection in early 2019, and it took another six years to get to the next steps, which...

If you are having precipitation, Montana drops out quickly. Only solutions are to wait for better weather or use a larger antenna.

I have used a 10750 MHz local oscillator setting with a conventional Ku-band LNBF, and it can quite often receive the lower end of the DBS frequencies (12224 upwards) in a blind scan. Unless in the first part of your above pictured scan, you used 10750 on a regular Ku-band LNBF to scan the...

Just went through some old pictures circa 2010, and found a mechanical drawing of a commercially manufactured heavy duty polar mount once made and sold by Prodelin, for their 1.8 meter offset Ku-band antenna. They quit offering these more than a decade ago, but if anyone has an offset dish of...

That looks like a 1.2 meter Fiberglass type, and the mounting head on the back has a strong resemblance to Primestar. Take a look at any numbering on the top rear area of the reflector to determine if this is Channel Master, Prodelin, or something else.

Christmas idea: Spectrum Monitor has lowered the price of yearly volumes, delivered via PDF link. 2015 to 2023 has all 12 issues of each year for the price of $12 per year. 2024 is $24 for the entire year. That's a dollar per issue when purchased a year at a time for the 2023 and earlier, and...

I kept a live list of C and Ku-band for all of North America, as well as some West Coast observations of a few Asian satellites that I encountered while building a cable system at a Canadian-owned gold mine in Far East Russia, back in 2008. That refined my knowledge base acquired while...

A 41 degree latitude = 5.7 degree declination angle. Start your process with the antenna locked down at the center of the arc (highest point of travel). Ensure that the reflector angle is 5.7 degrees closer to the ground than that of the mount. Lock it down, and leave it alone. If you are...

I'm at 43 north latitude, and the declination is very close to 6.0 degrees (within a couple hundredths). 41 degree latitude should get you in the neighborhood of about 5.7 degrees. If you are in Ohio, due south is going to be considerably further east than 91 West, but not necessarily on an...

CKUA is using Digicipher 2 via Shaw Direct, so more trouble than it's worth to receive that way. Use a computer or a Roku -or- a Smart TV and pick up CKUA that way. Over 100000 audio channels up there; most of them free of charge. CKUA included.

Use the numbered scale clockwise and CCW of zero to align polarity setting, just like an LNBF. Uses 13/18 volt switching. Made by NJRC in Japan in the early 1990s.

If you can physically shield the 5g interference out of your system, try a C-band LNBF (or a feedhorn and LNB) that may be on someone's shelf because they are not aware that older units handle 3700-4200 or even the 3400 to 4200 MHz range (though not filtered). Probably a few opportunities with...

When in doubt look at another information source so that you can cross reference it with Lyngsat as well as your findings. Try www.tvrosat.com

This situation is quite common on international C-band satellites such as 58 West, but it lost quite a few TPs during the month of August. It previously had several frequencies that were the same on both H and C polarity, for comparison purposes. Once you have relatively good signals from one...

Rescan it again--two separate updates in last week...you will find even more, including Eastern and Pacific feeds for DABL as well as Me Toons (promos until Tuesday June 25). Signal quality seems to be even stronger with new FEC setup.

Another thing to consider, to increase the number of foreign channels available. Get a Roku device and connect to WiFi reception. There are many hundreds, if not thousands of channels available from around the world, and many are free of charge. It will supplement your satellite reception and...

Just out of curiousity, was that one of Bob Luly's umbrella antennas? Lots of site surveys done with those back in the early days of C-band (1980s). I also recall some people in places such as Palm Springs, CA trying to deal with crazy ridiculous restrictions on C-band dishes during that time...

A simple way to confirm that you are clearing 13 degrees elevation would require 3 things. 1. A piece of rigid pipe (3 or 4 feet long would be sufficient) 2. An angle finder / inclinometer to place horizontally on the pipe (digital angle finder would be most accurate) 3. A second...

Patriot has been out of business for about 15 years. Wherever you find a 1.2 meter antenna, it will likely need to be shipped via Motor Freight (too large for UPS), so expect to pay a sizeable amount for transport between the supplier and your destination. I would give the local rooftop...

Good morning Joe, Magazines such as The Spectrum Monitor have paid circulations in the low thousands. There are no massive profits to be made, even with exclusive use of monthly PDF files. Have you mailed anything lately? The post office is no longer the bargain it once was, making it cost...

Yes. Look for more starting in September.

As a writer for The Spectrum Monitor, I can attest it is probably the best hobbyist source of information out there. Ken Reitz has been putting this out monthly since January 2014, and offers it by the year in PDF files. Those are typically $24 per year ($2 per copy when you purchase a year at...

As a former distributor for PICO MACOM, and heavy user of Quad, Tri Shield, and Dual RG-6 (foil/braid) cable during the 1980 to 2010 period, I remember specific sizes for each cable. F56-324 was for dual RG-6 (typically braid and a layer of foil) F56-342 was for Quad RG-6 (two layers of braid...

But it's funny in a twisted way, in a continuous feedback loop that always returns to FTA.