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    scanning / LNB / polarization

    Greetings, I have a couple of newbie questions if y'all wouldn't mind. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 1. Is there any difference between a LNB and a LNBF? 2. I understand that signals can be vertically or horizontally polarized, and the LNB receives tones from the receiver to...
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    Newb questions / FTA setup

    "If you go out camping and want to spend time researching sat ops while out in the woods, then you are much more of a die hard than I! LOL" What I was thinking was to travel to high ground, and try to hit difficult sats. I've glanced at posts that said there are ones that are low on the...
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    Newb questions / FTA setup

    Greetings All, Thank you all so much for the perfect answers. Fantastic! What a great bunch of folks on this forum. freezy: "fta is a tinkerers hobby. it isnt a very reliable replacement for packaged service" Thank goodness. I've tinkered with ham radio for years, and the thought of a...
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    Newb questions / FTA setup

    Greetings, Thanks to all for the info I've picked up from lurking for a while. I may be acquiring an FTA setup soon. Any help with the following questions would be greatly appreciated: 1. I see sats nicknamed 97W, 101W, etc. What do those designations mean? 97 degrees would be eastward on...
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