Recent content by rjb

I got a very good inclinometer in Home Depot for about $9.00 the other day. RJB

Hi, I have a 80 cm Fortec and it is very good. The only thing I do not like is that the elevetaion scale is a little off. I spent more time than needed setting up a motorized setup because of that. RJB

Hi everybody, Yes I bought the dish out of ebay, I will give it another try this weekend (if there is no hurricane this time) and I will post my results here. I have an inclinometer and will try to set the declination with the inclinometer and not use the scale on the dish. RJB

Yes it is from ebay.

Thanks, I will reset all the angles to the ones in the SG2100 manual. Is there anyone using the same dish? Is it possible that the dish scale be off some degrees? I know the offset angle for that antenna, Another thing I can do is to mount the dish in a vertical pole and verify the...

Hi, Thanks for your quick responses, > Did you take magnetic deviation into account? Florida is about +10 degrees IIRC. Yes, I pointed the motor to my true south. > You have just got the lat. and long mixed up, easily done! > Your motor elevation should be 64 deg. > And the dish...

Hi, I just tried to install this weekend my motorized system and got very week signals from a lot of satellites. My setup is: SG2100 Fortec Start 31" dish Fortec Start Universal LNB (0.4 dB Noise Figure) Pansat 2500A I followed the instructions in the SG2100 manual and set the...

What is your true south satellite from the list? RJB

Hi, I do not think gtools is a hack program. All it does is communicate with the receiver using the SDX protocol to upload/download the list of satellites/transponders/channels. This protocol is documented in http://www.satcodx.info/ .This site also provides a tool for that. I think gtools...

Hi, I found this site to get the exact Latitude & Longitude for a given address. http://www.maporama.com/share/ - Enter your address in the "Maps" section. - Click GO - Look at the "Information" section (left side of the screen) RJB

Hi, I just finished installing my motorized antenna last night and I managed to get some channels in a couple of satellites. My setup is: - Pansat 2500A - SG2100 motor - Fortec Star Universal LNB (0.4 dB of Noise Figure) - Fortec Start 80 cm antenna. I think I have a tracking problem...

Hi, I think you cannot use a Universal LNB because it switches between the upper band and the lower band using the 22kHz tone. You can use a DiSEqC switch instead of the 22Khz switch to accomplish that. RJB

Hi, I just have some information I would like to share with you... The antenna gain can be calculated by the expression: Gain = ? * ( (PI * Diameter) / lambda ) ^ 2 where ? is the antenna efficiency PI is the well known...

Thanks everybody for your quick responses. What about the Fortec Star 32" (80 cm) antenna? Is anyone using it? Thanks RJB

I thought it was a question mark symbol (?). Next time I will double check before submitting the post. Thanks