Info /best receiver for our 7 1/2 ft dish!!

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The RC-1978 STB will receive many of the services on C-band. There are hundreds of C-band channels in the clear, so let's figure out why you are only receiving a few.

What are you using to move the dish and select the polarity of the feed between the horizontal and vertical transponders? Are you using an old school IRD receiver (analog or 4DTV)? Does the feedhorn on the dish have a blue rectangular servo motor on the back of the housing?

Dish mover and LNBF can be found here: Titanium Satellite - Sales / Design / Development / Distribution /Customer Support

Brian, the owner of Titanium is a member here and stands behind his products. In addition I can recommend Tek2000, www.tek2000.com who sells receivers as well as dish parts and movers, ect. I purchased my 10' mesh dish from him a few years ago and it's weathered well. Rick's satellite sales [he also has a popular webforum] can be found here; Ricks Satellite USA

You might want to consider a 4K capable receiver running Enigma 2 software. I recommend the Octagon SF8008 myself but there are a number of capable receivers around the same price point that won't break the bank.

With your current set-up, the GI 4DTV is manually controlling the dish positioning and the polarity selection.

Example: To scan a vertical channel, use the 4DTV to drive to the target satellite and select channel 1 to rotate the servo probe to vertical polarity. Now set the RC-1978 to blindscan only Vertical polarity and perform the scan.

When the vertical blind scan is completed, place the 4DTV on channel 2 to rotate the servo polarity to horizontal. Set the RC-1978 to blindscan only Horizontal polarity and perform the scan.

To watch a Vertical channel on the RC-1978, switch the 4DTV to channel 1 (odd channel) for a vertical servo position. To watch a Horizontal channel on the RC-1978, switch the 4DTV to channel 2 (even channel) for a Horizontal servo position.

A pain in the rear end to manually control two separate units to select a satellite and a channel, but it is and can be done.

Better options are as KE4EST and Arion suggest, either partially automatic operation using a LNBF and your 4DTV as a mover or fully automatic with an ASC1 controller.