Recent content by lost_mesa

The AV cable that came with the GEOSAT Pro MicroHD that I bought years ago works fine with the V9 Prime. I use it to directly drive headphones for late night listening. The audio level out of the V9 is a little low, but adequate for my needs. Into an amp it is fine. I also have a 4 port HDMI...

Looks like it has started on RTPI, 97 w.

Dish Network had some circular polarized signals on Anik F3 at 119w in the 11,700 to 12,200 Mhz range. (I believe they are gone), so there were circular LNBFs available. I have one stored away somewhere. But, like the Inverto LNBF you linked to, it uses a dielectric resonate oscillators, which...

I have one. Originally for C Band. Modified to hold two 1.2 meter Ku dishes. Also has a second actuator for elevation tracking. It's pretty ugly.

I moved the LO 50 MHz! Not because it was broken but because it was made for a nonstandard 950 to 1400 MHz IF. I was changing my system to the more standard 950 to 1450 IF. Technology has changed a lot since then, so you might not have such a large range of adjustment.

I adjusted the LO frequency of a Ku band LNB back around 1990. It was easy to do and pretty obvious what to turn, since there was only one thing that looked like an adjustment. It looked a bit like a screw. YMMV.

I saw the interference around 8 to 9 am, far outside of the solar outage window. Sun outages are caused by the broadband thermal noise the sun is always emitting across the radio spectrum and beyond. When the sun moves into the beam of our dishes, this thermal noise can be stronger than the...

OK, I messed up. The 12177 V 1500 signal is on 101w, not 99w. The V9 sees a strong signal, as does Demod GUI. But the Edision sees zero. Any ideas?

That is what I assumed at first. But I ran the dish slowly up and down in elevation. The interference faded at the same rate as the desired signals and both peaked when the dish was pointed at the Clarke belt. I did this multiple times. It also went away when I switched to horizontal.

Can you lock 12177 V 1500 at 99w with the SF8008? I can lock it with the GTmedia V9, but it says no program found. Demod GUI can't lock it and the Edision+ 4K doesn't even see the signal. I'm curious what the parameters of this signal are that only the V9 can lock it. But the V9 doesn't give...

No, I've never been able to lock it on my 90cm dish, which is all I have set up. Hopefully I'll get the 1.2 m installed this summer.

This morning I noticed some interference that was causing my receiver to loose lock on the WPR radio feed. I assumed the problem was with my equipment. I had installed a new Bullseye feed yesterday. But after moving the dish east and west, and up and down (I have an elevation actuator on my...

I was listening to MBC radio from Saskatchewan on 114.9w Ku around 1 pm this afternoon. The receiver lost lock and after a few minutes of trying to get it to lock with no success, it occurred to me to go look at the dish. Sure enough, the dish was pointed right at the sun. Five minutes later...

They are available on eBay. Search for QO-100 Bullseye. I ordered one yesterday from madsyentist. Looks like it is coming from Chicago. The previous one I purchase was from an eBay seller in New Zealand and it shipped from China.

I believe that is correct. But I'm not an expert.