Most recent pic of the finished FTA project started in June and completed two weeks ago.
With added support in case of 60-70+ high winds added recently.
This is a better pic to show the LNB and dish heater taken before the added support was installed.
I installed these pieces of framing lumber to the other framing joists in the attic for the best roof mount I could come up with. It was blazing hot in the attic, and about did myself in from the heat.
I use the Manhattan RS-1933 Receiver
My Dish Farm includes the very active Directv Dish with dish heater.
The dish farm includes the since disconnected Dish Network antenna. But it could be reconnected if needed.
Above the satellite receivers and near the HDTV is this warning:
On the Directv 11 Satellite 99.2W recently, I came across a much sought after channel from Japan NHK World!
It is pretty cool getting all the news, weather (including U.S. weather) and lots of other very interesting stuff all from Japan in perfect english with subtitles in some cases. I watch this all the time now, it's so fascinating to watch. I hope I might get some channels from England or France this Fall or Winter when the leaves come off the big tall trees. I hope I don't lose this channel anytime soon!
Hello, I'm Chris Cromwell, I am new to the forum; this being my first official thread post. I became reacquainted with FTA early this past spring, by Google searching and visiting numerous sites, including this one to gather all the research I could. Once I found out all of the channels I could get on up to 100 different satellites, I wanted to get them all! By May or early June, I was ready to buy the items I knew I wanted to get started, including the dish motor. I made numerous calls to different vendors like Skyvision & The Satellite Shop. I took a 3 day weekend off of work driving a semi-truck when I was ready to get started on the project. The biggest aggravation was not being able to see or hear the satellite signals coming in. I finally resorted to many trips in and out of the upstairs window with extension cords, TV, cable, receiver, etc.. After I got everything hooked up on the roof, it was a quick 10-12 minute find to lock on to my southern most satellite 87W, and the first image I got was the Echostar Test Card interestingly. By that time is was getting pretty dark and my wife wanted me off the roof. Later that same evening, I shocked my wife when I asked her if she would like to watch football from Kuwait! The second worst aggravation that took up most of that weekend was trying to get the correct story on what the elevation is supposed to be set to on the motor. I finally got the correct answer on Youtube from Sadoun Satellite Sales, geeze....it was beginning to look like top secret information there for awhile!! Anyway, I did spend the next several weekends after that, to locate every Ku satellite and channel that I could, and improving the roof mount for added winds during a severe storm. I can always get another dish and motor if the winds jacks it over hard or worse, but I can't very easily get another large section of roof. At this point I wanted to move on to the C-Band and learning some people getting C-Band on a 90cm dish. So I bought a Titanium C1-PLL LNB with the separate Conical Ring. I spent another weekend with the TV and receiver all on the roof, but I could only get 11% quality on the strongest C-Band satellite with a known good transponder, as my dish was too small. It is looking as though C-Band will not be in the cards for me sadly, as my wife told me we have enough satellite dishes on the roof; and doesn't want a 6 foot C-Band dish out by the side of the house for all the neighbors to see. I still think it would look pretty awesome, as our house is looking more like a TV station with 3 dishes on the roof. I told my wife I would name the TV station after her: WMAR TV 48 Martha TV! She isn't convinced. If anyone knows of any other way to bring in 1 or 2 strong C-Band satellites that carry most of the local TV stations, without another obvious looking dish, I would love to know! If it could be undetected or small, like a C-Band Mobile Dome Antenna, maybe I could get away with it being on the roof. Just wanted to give everyone some good positive happy news about my first successful FTA attempt and very happy to finally join the forums not to mention this wonderful new hobby. I am not entirely new to satellite installation however. In 2001, I installed my first Dish Network Satellite system on my Semi-truck where it remained mounted for a good several years. At the same time as well as afterwords, I installed Dish Network systems at my folks house in Colorado, and later on Kentucky where I live now. That was back before installation techs came to be, and you were pretty much on your own when you bought the Dish Network system off the shelf at Sears. This post is pretty long so I will end here, I hope to hear from some of you soon.
Chris.
With added support in case of 60-70+ high winds added recently.
This is a better pic to show the LNB and dish heater taken before the added support was installed.
I installed these pieces of framing lumber to the other framing joists in the attic for the best roof mount I could come up with. It was blazing hot in the attic, and about did myself in from the heat.
I use the Manhattan RS-1933 Receiver
My Dish Farm includes the very active Directv Dish with dish heater.
The dish farm includes the since disconnected Dish Network antenna. But it could be reconnected if needed.
Above the satellite receivers and near the HDTV is this warning:
On the Directv 11 Satellite 99.2W recently, I came across a much sought after channel from Japan NHK World!
It is pretty cool getting all the news, weather (including U.S. weather) and lots of other very interesting stuff all from Japan in perfect english with subtitles in some cases. I watch this all the time now, it's so fascinating to watch. I hope I might get some channels from England or France this Fall or Winter when the leaves come off the big tall trees. I hope I don't lose this channel anytime soon!
Hello, I'm Chris Cromwell, I am new to the forum; this being my first official thread post. I became reacquainted with FTA early this past spring, by Google searching and visiting numerous sites, including this one to gather all the research I could. Once I found out all of the channels I could get on up to 100 different satellites, I wanted to get them all! By May or early June, I was ready to buy the items I knew I wanted to get started, including the dish motor. I made numerous calls to different vendors like Skyvision & The Satellite Shop. I took a 3 day weekend off of work driving a semi-truck when I was ready to get started on the project. The biggest aggravation was not being able to see or hear the satellite signals coming in. I finally resorted to many trips in and out of the upstairs window with extension cords, TV, cable, receiver, etc.. After I got everything hooked up on the roof, it was a quick 10-12 minute find to lock on to my southern most satellite 87W, and the first image I got was the Echostar Test Card interestingly. By that time is was getting pretty dark and my wife wanted me off the roof. Later that same evening, I shocked my wife when I asked her if she would like to watch football from Kuwait! The second worst aggravation that took up most of that weekend was trying to get the correct story on what the elevation is supposed to be set to on the motor. I finally got the correct answer on Youtube from Sadoun Satellite Sales, geeze....it was beginning to look like top secret information there for awhile!! Anyway, I did spend the next several weekends after that, to locate every Ku satellite and channel that I could, and improving the roof mount for added winds during a severe storm. I can always get another dish and motor if the winds jacks it over hard or worse, but I can't very easily get another large section of roof. At this point I wanted to move on to the C-Band and learning some people getting C-Band on a 90cm dish. So I bought a Titanium C1-PLL LNB with the separate Conical Ring. I spent another weekend with the TV and receiver all on the roof, but I could only get 11% quality on the strongest C-Band satellite with a known good transponder, as my dish was too small. It is looking as though C-Band will not be in the cards for me sadly, as my wife told me we have enough satellite dishes on the roof; and doesn't want a 6 foot C-Band dish out by the side of the house for all the neighbors to see. I still think it would look pretty awesome, as our house is looking more like a TV station with 3 dishes on the roof. I told my wife I would name the TV station after her: WMAR TV 48 Martha TV! She isn't convinced. If anyone knows of any other way to bring in 1 or 2 strong C-Band satellites that carry most of the local TV stations, without another obvious looking dish, I would love to know! If it could be undetected or small, like a C-Band Mobile Dome Antenna, maybe I could get away with it being on the roof.
Just wanted to give everyone some good positive happy news about my first successful FTA attempt and very happy to finally join the forums not to mention this wonderful new hobby. I am not entirely new to satellite installation however. In 2001, I installed my first Dish Network Satellite system on my Semi-truck where it remained mounted for a good several years. At the same time as well as afterwords, I installed Dish Network systems at my folks house in Colorado, and later on Kentucky where I live now. That was back before installation techs came to be, and you were pretty much on your own when you bought the Dish Network system off the shelf at Sears. This post is pretty long so I will end here, I hope to hear from some of you soon. Chris.
