Recent content by MarcK

The Amiko and Titanium dish mover go with the dish. As a reward for taking the dish. If I were only disposing of the electronics, they wouldn't be free.

Installed 1990... the wind pushed it past its stops, and maybe it's time to pass it on to someone who can use it. 10' Winegard, C and Ku LNBs, 24" Saginaw positioner, AMIKO receiver and Titanium dish mover. Was running prior to the windstorm. Free. Located in Woodside, CA (94062). Easy ground...

The international mysteries are available via intermet and MHz Choice. I first heard of MHz when one of the local community college stations started carrying programming on a side channel. Then I discovered that my subscription to DirecTV covered that channel, but a separate dish and combiner...

MHz Worldview (channel 2183) is leaving DirecTV on 9/30/2019. That may leave channel 43 (KPJK) in the San Francisco bay area as a DirecTV access point. The mysteries are available on MHz Choice (internet). Not that I want to go to Dish, but MHz is the only reason I stayed with DirecTV.

Well, PBS dropped their C-band feed so I decided to try to get the Ku signal. Purchased an ASC-1 dish mover, Amiko HD 265 receiver (I actually got this for the C band signal), and a 4-port DiSEqC switch. I have dual LNBs (this system was installed in 1989), so C-band to port 1, Ku to port 2...

I have a UPS on the TV circuits, mostly to keep the DirecTV box from resetting. But in this case an internal fault interrupter in the UPS tripped, and I had to completely shut off the UPS to reset it. Not a common occurrance, but at least all the other bits are still running. I'm not sure what...

I've ordered the HD265. If I ever decide to channel surf again I'll order a stand-alone dish mover and change all the LNBs to the type that are voltage-controlled polarity. Until then, the Chaparral Monterey 90 is putting out the polarotor voltage. PBS has been making noises that they want to...

As I said, this is an old system. It looks like I can just power the LNB by setting the polarization to H. The dish has a polarotor on it, which I'll still power from the Chaparral via twisted pair. Thanks.

It looks like the HD.265 doesn't have the loop-through connection for powering the LNB from the Chaparral. Is the LNB power compatible with the old Norsat LNBs? How about the IF frequencies?

The local electric company (PG&E) managed to fry my Amiko 8240 that I use to receive PBS on AMC-1. So I'm looking for recommendations for a replacement. The Amiko 8250+ seems promising. I don't need fancy features, just HDMI out. I'm looping through a Chaparral 90 for LNB power (I've had a...