Recent content by cyberham

I find on 99W that after I peak on Montana PBS or PBS that I must bump the dish two bumps to the west to peak the Nexstar channels. Same phenomenon on 101W C. METV is peaked a touch to the west of other tps. Once you know then no problem.

And you got Ali MacGraw in Tesuque!

This morning it is 12.2 dB now as last night. Montana PBS is 12.9 dB.

Weather (rain) related affecting upper frequencies? There are some wicked storms playing out in places. The storm doesn't have to be over you necessarily.

It has a well-designed footprint to cover the important areas. Satstar.net agrees:

12.2 dB here. Pretty normal. About 0.7 dB lower than Montana PBS.

For azimuth, I stand behind the dish holding my smartphone with azimuth app running. I look down at the app and set the phone so its front edge is pointing at the correct azimuth. I then look up to sight where the dish should point. This is all just approximate since you're going to swing the...

My former company, Icom Canada, provided the IC-7610 radio to the club.

Just to finish this off...these are all the satellites I can access from the west coast. Updated July 4, 2025. Satellites: Ku-band 150W to 77W C-band 150W to 81W Scanned: Ku-band 129W to 87W C-band 139W to 81W

In the Antenna Setup menu, set Motor Type to USALS. Then click USALS and enter your latitude/longitude coordinates in the window that opens. You must select USALS for each satellite, but you only enter your coordinates one time.

With this method, and a temporary portable tripod, you can try a fixed dish to check for sure which satellites are receivable from a particular site. This is the way you can know for sure.

The free apps I have tried can be inaccurate but if used only as a general indication of where satellites are then they are useful. The one I use most is Satfinder Lite from droidwareuk. It's in the Google Store. Maybe the pay version would even be worth it at only $11.99. I've been up Signal...

Updated July 3, 2025. Satellites: Ku-band 150W to 77W C-band 150W to 75W Scanned: Ku-band 129W to 87W C-band 139W to 91W

Swapping in the GeosatPro SL1PLL to replace the Invacom didn't change things for receiving WPR. I can receive WPR well on the V9 Prime with either LNB. But I can only see an indication of a signal but no lock on WPR with the Edision Mio+ using either LNB.

I'm going to swap out right now my Invacom QPH-031 with a GeosatPro SL1PLL just to see if the additional PLL stability helps locking low SR tps.