Recent content by AceB

I'll be honest, I've read this reply half a dozen times and still can't understand what's trying to be said.

It is possible to use two V-Boxes with one remote, I do here. One is a SuperJack V-Box II, the other an Alsat Gbox but they're pretty much the same inside and use an identical remote. I have one sitting on top of the other but by pointing the remote towards them and tilted up it's very easy to...

Start by making sure the pole is truly vertical, not just 'that's pretty good on a spirit level' but really vertical, ideally with a digital angle finder. If you can reach the LNB you can make a cheap and cheerful plate for circular signals using a polyethylene chopping board. Just cut it to...

I've heard back from him and have the diagram. He's currently experimenting with the design and adding some extra lengths of copper wire to each copper plate, hopefully he's going to send me a photo to show what's he done but he says he's improved some transponders by over half a dB so I'll...

John, let me ask the guy that made the one I'm using, it may take a few days to get a reply from him but I'll let you know what he says.

We've made plates out of a few different materials with good results, sometimes upto 1dB stronger than the usual supplied slab. Both CD cases and a nylon chopping board can make very effective plates.

What an interesting project! I wonder what is special about the Arm and Hammer soda because it's not something we can get this side of the Atlantic but I'm sure there is an equivalent if we know what the magic ingredient is?

Back to square one the LNB, I misread the detailed info although the title does call it extended coverage, presume they mean wideband down to 3.4GHz so I will look into getting one of those from Tek. I'm in East Sussex too, literally a stones throw from the 0° meridian line and down on the coast...

IN what must be the coincidence of the year I checked my emails this morning to see one from Ebay alerting me to a Eurostar extended C band LNB listed as new old stock for £30 but with make an offer. I've managed to get it for £25 so worth taking a chance on it even if it's down on my other...

Trawling through the Tek2000 website earlier to see if they sell separately the polar mount fitted to the 2.4m Jonsa dish I came across their extended coverage C Band LNBf with dual IF's. Has anyone tried one, how does the regular C Band performance compare to what's already out there like the...

That's an interesting mount, the dish looks like the generic Jonsa/Fortec Star but I've never seen a polar mount available for it so is this something that Tek2000 manufacture themselves? Just one question if I may, is declination set using the two bolts in this pic?

Having played with a few different dishes on diseqc motors and polar mounts it's something I've thought of doing once everything has been fined tuned. The conclusion I reached in the end was not to do because I'd rather a dish move round the pole due to extreme wind than be warped or broken due...

I've just scanned it here in the UK (strong on my 1.8m) and as mc6809e says the parameters that Lyngsat give show it as CVC en ESPANOL.

If you're sourcing from Europe satellitesuperstore is known for being expensive on like for like products so do shop around. Two brands to look for are Gibertini and Triax, both sell a 1M dish that have similar spec although the elevation control on the Triax can be a real pain to fine tune. My...

Just a brief update on this project, there are now versions of Jaero and Planeplotter that display planes on maps. Jaero does the hard work and can output data to either Virtual Radio Server or Planeplotter. I've been experimenting with SDR Sharp and can now decode both channels on each...