CONTEST!! Enter to Win: Titanium C2-PLL C-band Interference Filtering LNBF

now my current setup:
- 10 Foot Winegard Quadstar, with a 24" VonWeise actuator, a Titanium C1W-PLL LNBF, a Chapparal Polarotor with dielectric plate and a DRO LNB, and an X2 Ku LNBF, both mounted to the sides of the C1W-PLL.
- 120cm Offset dish, that came with a fixed mount. I adapted it to a new old-stock Orbitron polar mount. It also has a 24" Von Weise actuator, and a GeoSatPro UL1-PLL. It also has a sidecar stacked circular DBS LNBF, which is not even connected.

The 120cm dish can receive from 12.5W to 125W in Ku.
The 10-footer can receive from 22W to 135W C-Band, and from 30W to 133W Ku (taking advantage of the offset created by the sidecar LNBs)

In both cases the reception at those extremes is very marginal because of trees. I can reasonably receive reliably stable signals from 22W Ku to 125W Ku, and from 31W to 127W C-Band, with partial reception beyond 127W and below 31W.

Note that the actuators are mounted on the "wrong"side for my location. That's because when I installed those dishes, I had tall trees and did not expect any reception west of 110W. The reality is that it did work somewhat ok, and then almost a year ago, we had a violent weather event (a macroburst, a bit like a tornado), and now those tall trees are in my firewood stack. So at some point i might move the actuator on the 10-footer, but it's actually working well the way it is.

The smaller fixed dish mounted on the short PVC pipe is as you can see, an rescued DN Superdish, with an Inverto Black Ultra, pointed at Intelsat 35e for the few French news channels in lower Ku. It works surprisingly well.

on the picture, the 120cm is aimed at 115W, and the 10-footer is looking at 55.5W (I had just scanned in the new transponder used by DW-TV)

and a few fixed dishes:
- a 90cm FortecStar for 125W for PBS using a Maverick MK1 PLL LNBF (great LNBF!), mounted near the roof to look over the tree line
- a DN Superdish for 123W for KBS World, using its original (and lousy) stacked LNB on its linear feed
- a Musak weirdly shaped dish with matching feed and Aspen LNB aimed at 95W
- a no-brand 75cm aimed at 97W, using a GeoSatPro SL4-PLL (another great LNBF)

the dishes for 95W, 97W and 123W are connected through a Zinwell switch and feed 2 receivers: the Amiko Mini HDre (which is also fed by all the other dishes), and an old Fortec Mercury II, which still works fine for most channels on those 3 satellites.

and now the indoor part:
- Amiko miniHDre
- an antique MTI-2800 to move the 120cm Ku dish. No Presets, no remote.
- a Drake ESR-2000XT (new old stock), used to move the 10-footer as well as drive the polarity servo of the polarotor. I have also used it to receive the Analog feed of C-SPAN on 131W.
- a old Pioneer AV receiver for the audio
- a recent 32" Samsung HDTV
- a portable car DVD player, used as a display for the Drake receiver since all the navigation is on-screen

it all works well, but at some point i'd really like to get the new Edision MIO receiver, and an ASC-1 to drive the 10-footer. I would then retire the MTI and use the Drake with the 120cm dish

that setup is in the downstairs, as to me it's really a hobby and I actually don't watch much TV. In the living room we have cable, and also the Fortec receiver that we sometimes use to watch KBS World and CGTN. upgrading the setup with an ASC-1 would certainly make the whole thing more user-friendly and more usable for the rest of the family.

I want to take the opportunity to thank my friend Gary D, who very generously donated a lot of his surplus equipment (the MTI box, the Drake box, the 120cm dish and its Orbitron polar mount, both VonWeise actuators, and many old feedhorns and LNBs), as well as shared very valuable knowledge. Gary was also able to get me an AJAK mount, which I have not installed yet

Some day I'd like to upgrade the Ku motorized dish to a 180cm. Maybe with the Ajak motor.

I'm also looking into adding an OTA setup, but OTA TV reception here is a bit marginal (requires a large and amplified antenna to work well)

An older photo of my setup: 103W, 97W, and 91W on a 90cm Geosatpro



If I win, I'll shoot for 99w to see what I can very carefully get. If the landlord allows, I'll go for a 1-1.2m dish.

Just a picture of the unimesh.

Hi All! Thanks for this thread and for showing your stuff. There is most recent picture of "my couple of dishes" .

Here is a pic of my new 12ft. unimesh! (work in progress!)and a pic of my southern view...will be running an Amiko Mini HD SE for a tuner and a US Electronics ORB7500 Videocipher for now to move the dish. This C2-PLL would be a very nice addition to my new set-up seeing I have not purchased another LNB yet.

Hey, that's what it looked like leaning against my house also!

At my place we have have his and hers setups Hers is a Winegard Pinnacle on an AJAK mount. The AJAK has a custom position sensor 20 counts per degree. It has a Bullseye II OMT with 4 Norsat LNBs connected to a modded multi-switch providing 18V power to all LNBs. The dish controller is an old DX Antenna DSB-300 antenna power supply that has been modded for full DiSEqC capabilities. The receiver is a GSP microHD. All viewed on a 55" Samsung.

Reception hasn't been good on my deck-mounted Ku dish since the last snowstorm...



Some snow-clearing might be required fix the S/F (Snow over Feedhorn) issue. Guess that is what happens after hanging around in southern Florida for a week or so...
Thanks for the contest Brian!

Ok, you guys might not believe this, but back in October 2013 I made a 8.5 hour drive there and back to pickup all this stuff, because I won an Ebay auction and bought TWO 10ft Winegard Pinnacles, 4 actuators, 1 Ajak HH180 mount, and an original Chaparral Bullseye C-ku orthomode feed for the sum total of $147.50. I won the auction for $122.50, and when the seller brought out the Chaparral feed (that wasn't in the auction) I offered him another $25 for it. I later sold it all by itself on Ebay for $250! Which paid for everything else. I ended up later deciding not to install the dishes (didn't have room at the old house), and sold them for $100. I kept the Ajak for future possibilities...

Anyway, on to the pics!

Everyone likes to post up pics of their boring dish setups, and that's fine in a tedious repetitious sense.

Here's my toroidal sectional array of my current lineup of remotes for readily accessible receivers; from least to most favorite, right to left.

Freesat V8 super something. It's a receiver and works. Good blind scan but clunky menu navigation. I fire it up avery couple months just for S&Gs and when I wanted a blind scan.

AZBox Premium HD+. Nice receiver back in the day. 4.2.2 worked great before CBS evolved beyond what the box is capable of. Internal HD had an OK DVR. Decent blind scan but a bit slow. It's been down powered for over a year now.

Amiko A3 radio remote. Man, every remote should be radio instead of IR. Dish figured this out. Samsung figured this out on the UHDTVs that I have. Android OS was potentially a beater of sliced bread. Great menus and functionality. Send the dish moving to look for signals and it would stop when it hit a satellite! That was cool. Could hold three digit positioner addresses. But it was great util it decided to do a meth-whisky weekend bender and shat its brains out, requiring a reset to factory to start again. It's been off since the next one arrived, namely the...

The Octagon SF4008. Nice 4k receiver running E2. Lacked blind scan. Really sucked lacking blind scan. It sucked to reconfigure to a different receiver to to a BS. Has an internal HD bay to it is a great DVR receiver. Really wish these next two had internal HD space. Two independent tuners in one box.

Octagon SF8008. Nice 4k receiver running E2 with blind scan. I seem to have issues with some images (Open TV 6.2) giving BS results. I'm on OpenATV 6.3 and BS works again.

Edison OS mio4k. E2 state of the art bliss (no, not BISS). Blind Scan works. My favorite image is OpenATV, currently 6.2. Many images will give you something you want, this one gives me what I need. Many seem to give "looks cool graphics" but lack some settings. Can your favorite image turn off background scanning so renamed channels will stop reverting to their broadcast "code" names? I'm specifically thinking of the CTV mux.

Again. I'm done buying the next greatest satellite receiver!

Boxed up is an Amiko Mini HS SE MicroHD contemporary.

Retired and put to pasture in someone else’s stable; MicroHD, GeosatPro HDVR1200, FreeSat v7.

If I win, I'll make an even better try to get either my 10' solid fiberglass or 12' mesh put up to use the LNB. I Promise.

Is that all ya got? Pshawww.

wvman said:

Right now, I am running a 12 foot Prodelin (Out of View), 2- 10 foot Unimesh dishes, a 7.5 foot Unimesh, a 7.5 foot Perfect 10 dish, 2 HughesNet Oval Ku Dishes, 1 Round HughesNet round Ku Dish and a 52X48 unknown brand Ku Dish. All saved from the junkers.

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The main receiver is an Amiko H265 receiver and a second receiver, a Linkbox 9000i, in the other room. At this time, I have 500+ channels operational.

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I figured I'd update my photo just for the heck of it since I added another dish. Pay no attention to the mess. I've got two monstrous white pines on the ground across the fence behind the garage. One measured 97 inches around the base. Good luck with the contest gang.

Radioguy41 said:

Is that all ya got? Pshawww.

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Personally, I think you need a few more remotes.

wvman said:

Personally, I think you need a few more remotes.

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I got em, I just didn't want to show off.

Here is my current 10ft KTI.
Now that I fixed my actuator, I REALLY need a new Titanium C2-PLL to add as a sidecar to get circular sats over the Pacific.


Here is the picture of where I got it. Stuck in the trees for 25 years.


Anyway, it's my 50th birthday today, so wish me luck!

Thanks Brian!

I made a attempt to get the pole planted for my 10 footer this weekend. No go, after six months of continuous rain I hit water at 6 or 8 inches down. Felt like I was back in Florida. Hole turned into red clay soup. Ooops, now picture to attach, to much mud on the lens, can't make out anything.

A diagram for FTA fun

Here’s my motorized dish setup as of February 18th. I also have a 90cm dish fixed on 30w. I would love to see what C-band feeds I could get with this new C2-PLL LNB once the weather warms up! Thanks for the contest Brian!