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More on C-Band dish Here are photographs of the dish and the lnb. Yes, that's snow on the lnb. For what it's worth, the old receiver is a Panasonic 700 PSEX.

According to the docs, the DVB card expects a "digital universal LNB". I have no idea what the lnb is on the 10' dish - analog maybe? Is there an easy way to determine that?

We tried it with the power on the receiver with no success. BTW, the dish is a UniMesh with a Chapparel lnb. I don't know enough about these things to know if perhaps one needs to replace the lnb with a universal digital one. Any thoughts? Boy, one learns lots very quickly on this site...

...and we had turned off the receiver after orienting the dish. We'll try it "on" next time.

An Update: After insuring that the receiver was able to get the signal, the line was then removed from the receiver and connected to the card. The receiver was only used to set the horizontal polarity and dish position accurately. I see mentioned that the card requires "a digital universal...

I sure could use help understanding LOF1 and LOF2.

We are attempting to get a signal using an old 10 foot dish and a new PCI card - WinTV-Nexus-S which is supposed to allow us to get FTA signals. Since the owner still has the working receiver, we have tested that we are receiving a strong signal on Satcom C-3 using the old setup. Using that...