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  1. nbkhwjm

    Dish restoration advice

    its a supply issue, if the supply is low, get everything you can and sort out whats good and whats not.. I've been a junker / scrapper for years and one thing that i always live by is "when the gettin' is good, get it all... sort it out later..." from what i see that isnt that bad, but my...
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    8ft and 10ft pole size?

    Radio HAMs have this down to an art... now im adding dishes... "Well honey i could be out drinking and chasing young girls!..." lol... Chris
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    Got a 12ft C-band dish, need help identifying it

    I acquired a 12 ft c-band dish, it was on the ground and needed some work. its missing the lna assembly I'd like to identify it. its 12ft, aluminum, in 8 slices.. The attached pictures are right after pickup, it was buried in the ground a bit.. its aluminum, and free so if it was junk, i...
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    LNB Tilt Equation

    Yes it is! I ended up using that exact site to get it done, in addition to multiple calibrations to determine proper adjustments for calibration, temp and self tests.. It gets me close enough now to have the dish be pointed accurately enough to get a signal to peak on. Chris
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    LNB Tilt Equation

    Yeah, but what's the fun in that? :-)
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    LNB Tilt Equation

    Great! I've been looking for that. I wrote my own application to dynamically determine super accurate positioning for portable dishes and skew was on the short ToDo list. I got sidetracked when the electronic compass component arrived and started working on determining magnetic declination...
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    Master list of All Satellites for download?

    thanks, im writing an application to parse this data, but it needs to be up-line from where these sites are getting it. yea there must be some sort of master list somewhere. Chris
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    Master list of All Satellites for download?

    all, is there a list somewhere downloadable that indicates at a minimum satellite name, and its orbital position (Longitude) for geosynchronous media sats? something i can use to massage and import... where is the authoritative source for this data.. thanks.. Chris