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    New to CBAND, have 10' Winegard, Need LNB / Receiver / Positioner Reccomendations

    Wasn't able to get at the dish today, had a honey-do list to take care of. Rest assured I am determined to get this thing going! I will update in the next couple days.
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    New to CBAND, have 10' Winegard, Need LNB / Receiver / Positioner Reccomendations

    Yeah I’m kind of flying blind with this thing with no remote. There is nothing on screen when you change channels on VHF or composite. I’m totally ok with trashing this thing if I know for sure I can get it working with newer gear.
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    New to CBAND, have 10' Winegard, Need LNB / Receiver / Positioner Reccomendations

    Thanks for this, this dish is pretty well protected from gusts and I know it hasn’t been touched since it was in use and seems to have been installed at least semi-competently. I will check the dish for play tomorrow and if there is some I might follow up with you on the phone to make sure I do...
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    New to CBAND, have 10' Winegard, Need LNB / Receiver / Positioner Reccomendations

    Yeah, the IQ receiver isn’t going to help me much more than testing the actuator, since I have no remote it will be difficult to do much else with it. But I am happy with that result. I setup the viewsat and tried to scan the satellites that were available on the stock firmware but to no avail...
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    New to CBAND, have 10' Winegard, Need LNB / Receiver / Positioner Reccomendations

    Haha you weren't kidding about the crudeness. The East and West buttons are literally momentary switches for the actuator motor. The way I wired it, East goes East and West goes West and limits seem to be working on both ends. How are you supposed to know when to stop? Or are there only 2...
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    New to CBAND, have 10' Winegard, Need LNB / Receiver / Positioner Reccomendations

    Ok! I popped the cap off and it is in much better condition than I expected. The spiders who lived there but have since moved out were good housekeepers. The insulation on the red conductor is split but everything else seems to be ok. I'm going to follow the wiring sequence noted above and see...
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    New to CBAND, have 10' Winegard, Need LNB / Receiver / Positioner Reccomendations

    This is great news! Also, after reading your initial post, it occurred to me that the polarrotor is probably another moving part inside the feedhorn. I inspected the other end of the cables running to the dish and 2 are coax, the other 2 are likely for the actuator and polarrotor. One of the...
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    New to CBAND, have 10' Winegard, Need LNB / Receiver / Positioner Reccomendations

    Thanks for this info! Do you think I will need to replace the LNB to tune 4k channels or is the OEM LNB sufficient?
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    New to CBAND, have 10' Winegard, Need LNB / Receiver / Positioner Reccomendations

    The rest of the photos...
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    New to CBAND, have 10' Winegard, Need LNB / Receiver / Positioner Reccomendations

    Hello, I am new to C-Band. I live in the L.A. area and have a 10' Winegard dish that came with the house. I am not sure what I need to receive modern FTA signals. I live in an area that does not receive ATSC television broadcasts so I would primarily like to try to get network feeds. Here are...
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