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A few days ago in another thread several of you offered me great help and advice regarding the potential harvesting a Birdview solid I spotted on Craigslist: http://www.satelliteguys.us/c-band-satellite-discussion/264089-birdview-motor-pole-questions.html A friend and I launched the attack...

I'm looking at picking up a 8.5' solid Birdview. However it would be a good drive there and back. The owner has been quite helpful in supplying information, but I still have a few questions for those who already have one. 1. The pole size is 6" OD, which I have heard before. As the nearest...

A few folks have requested the details of my conversion of a dual-axis mounted 1.8m Prodelin offset reflector into a horizon-to-horizon mount. This was a bit of a rush job as I was concerned the city was about about to pass an ordinance to restrict satellite dishes. They eventually did, but not...

I ran into some rather odd performance problems on one of my Ku dishes recently and decided to measure the CNR differences for several LNB and feed combinations. I thought this might be of some passing morbid interest to folks here as it shows rather significant unit-to-unit variations on a LNB...

I came across an ad for the dish in the attached photos, but it's a long drive from here. I've contacted the owner, but I'm drawing a complete blank even trying to get basic measurements of the dish and pole diameters. Given the vast experience of folks on the forum, does anyone: 1. Recognize...

There has been a fair amount of banter back and forth about the relative merits of 4DTV master feeds compared to pizza dish HD-lite. I actually did some direct comparisons a few months ago with the raw transport streams, but after satisfying myself with the results, I tossed the files of the...

We have been a long term DN subscriber, but starting a couple of years ago became more and more dissatisfied with the decline in their PQ, particularly HD programming. A year ago we dropped our remaining premium movie packages via DN and shifted these to 4DTV (HBO and STARZ). The price was a...

I've been interested in a number of movies on these channels since they were added, but after the first few days I've been noticing fairly frequent video and audio breakups. I'm on 110/119/129 in the Denver area and 129 is on a 76cm dish getting SQ readings in the high 70s and low 80s using Dish...

I've been using SageTV for the past few years to integrate OTA, DN, FTA and recently SD throughout our house. For those unfamiliar with this approach, a Sage server controls all the tuners as a pool and uses them to play live to networked Sage clients and record requested programs from an...

The Zinwell WB68 switch has four LNB inputs fairly typical of multiswitches. Each can be selected through the application of 18/13V and 22 kHz tone off/on on the eight outputs. While this is an unpowered switch, it passes 950-2150 MHz (and also 250-750 MHz) making it an excellent choice for...

Given recent discussions here, I thought a short report might be in order on how amplifiers can make slight improvements in received CNR for even a 'hot' LNB, but are also vulnerable to saturation. I recently finalized my toroid LNB configuration with a combination of Superdish FSS LNBs with DP...

I've put up three WaveFrontier T90 toroids over the past months to cover the North American FTA Ku birds. Considering the number of orbital positions involved, the use of bandstacked LNBs makes a lot of sense in terms of limiting the cost and complexity of cabling and switching. However the...

Nothing had gone according to plan over the weekend with the kids, so a couple of hours before sundown I was determined to rescue something to show for it on the FTA side. I've been playing musical feeds on my BUDs over the past few months trying to figure out where everything best fit. That...

I picked up a KBSL1 LNBFs to evaluate its use on a couple of my toroid dishes. Thus this will be a sometimes narrow look at the unit and doesn't really qualify as a full review. To date I have been bringing into service two Wave Frontier's T90 dishes to cover most of the NA Ku birds. While...

Being as this existing thread has evolved into something quite different than where it started, and the title isn't terribly apropos, I'm beginning another here as a follow-in in the more appropriate sub-forum. To recap, Prof has introduced a series of PCI/USB/PCIe tuners based on the STV0903...

Sometime back I posted details on modifying the WNC SWA-48 4x8 switch to have all inputs wired for a 18V supply voltage for driving LNBs that don't think in terms of 18/13V and 22 KHz. At the time this switch had a lot going for it (1) it was already powered, (2) it had good headroom, (3) it...

This thread has been a long time in in the making, but thanks to a kick from zamar23 and today being completely unproductive with school starting for all the kids, I threw in the towel and took some pictures on the roof. Long ago I started with a 3m Winegard perf and decided to put on a dual...

Almost all of my current LNBs are single polarity because I prefer orthomode feeds that allow me to select any polarization from any of the eight receivers connected to my FTA switch matrix. Up until now I have used power inserters on 4x8 powered switches to make sure all of my LNBs get the full...

I'm in the process of revamping my FTA systems to accommodate a bunch of new dishes and LNBs. To take advantage of the opportunity, I will be sporadically posting documentation of some of the odd changes I'm making along the way. First up is the DG-380 HH motor used to drive my 1.2m that has...

I've been running an ADL dual orthomode feed for the past few months on my 3 m Winegard Pinnacle. The f/D of this dish is 0.278, which is great for pulling in low SNRs, but unfortunately the ADL orthomode is a poor match out of the box. Patriot now sells this model, and according to their...

I rescued a Winegard 7.5' dish yesterday in good condition. It's pretty much cleaned up and ready to go. All the parts were there, with the probable exception of the polar mount's top bearing (see photos). I have a 10' Pinnacle, but with an Ajak mount, so that was no help. I looked at the manual...

I took some time off from redeploying my dishes to look over a nagging problem I had called USALS. Last year I tossed a 1.2 m GEOSATpro on the roof with a PowerTech DG-380 motor. It was easy to tweak and I soon had it tracking the Clarke belt over the motor's range. My true south is about 105...

There is a very interesting thread running in this forum concerning linuxman's project to capture multiple satellites: I've also been contemplating this for awhile to reduce the competition of our family for the motorized dishes in our farm. With all the choices available, my interest lies...

I'm new to FTA and recently put up a 10' Winegard with a HH motor so our family could experience more foreign language. This has a quad feed so any of the multiple receivers in the house can dial up either polarity for C/Ku. The C-band LNBs are Norsat 8115s. At the same time I also put up a 1.2m...