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Hi There, OK, I've been testing out a Channelmaster 1.2 m dish in the backyard. The Az-El mount has a 3" width. I've been using a piece of car exhaust pipe to use as the mounting pole, though my neighbor's kid's basketball hoop has a sectioned 3" pipe that looks pretty nice for this...

Inmarsat RBGAN + Opensky hybrid services Yes, it works. If you're absolutely stuck in an area with no phones, then this might be a solution for you. Inmarsat is quite expensive by itself. With the hybrid service as the download channel, then you can cut the cost to a fraction of that price...

Feedhorn in box Well, my guess that the feedhorn would be in the dish shipment was correct. It is there according to the packing slip. Now, I think I have to choose a receiver for Free-to-air. We have a Dish network dish setup so maybe I can scan for the test channel with that? If we...

Hi there, I'm setting up a Free-to-Air satellite dish using a Channelmaster dish that I just bought from Dow Electronics. I hadn't found this site yet. I bought the receive only Ku band 1.2 m dish (I know it's overkill on the East coast) and a digital LNB. I don't think there is any real...

Hey there, The Opensky/Europe Online hybrid service requires the use of a phone line to push the uplink over the internet to the command station to the bird, then the satellite sends the downlink to a dish with a universal LNB and USB receiver for the hybrid service. I'm trying to set up...