Search results for query: *

  1. arcticracer

    Dish 1000 on 6' Antenna in Alaska

    Welcome to another mad scientist project, I am up in central Alaska and have been using a 4 antenna solution to receive the equivalent of a Dish 1000 system. I use a 6' Anderson antenna to pick up 119 and 118.7 using a Dish Pro dual band LNB. 110 comes off a 1 meter antenna, and 129 is on a...
  2. arcticracer

    Dish 1000+ at 65 Degrees North

    Dish 500+ in Alaska (Int'l Programming) Hey folks, I am in the Fairbanks area and using a True Focus 1.8M on 119 (cause I have it), and a 1 meter on 110. I plan on adding some international channels on 118.7 Through my reading, it looks like I need the DP dual band LNBF to pull this off and...
  3. arcticracer

    Thinking About Putting My 12' BUD Back to Work-Advice?

    Hey guys, thinking about getting an FTA receiver and refurbishing my old 12' Paraclipse copy dish. It's the "Bud From Hell" that I have posted photos of here in the past. The one on a 20 something foot pole with a combination service platform/Moose stand. My last use of C band was with my old...
  4. arcticracer

    St. Paul Island, Alaska Storm Destroyed AT&T Dish

    We have been busy repairing damage in Western Alaska from the huge superstorm that passed through the area last week. I just returned from Point Hope where 80 MPH winds ripped the waveguide off the antenna. Here are some photos of the dish on St. Paul Island, off the SW Alaska coast where the...
  5. arcticracer

    Satcom Occupational Hazard-Polar Bears!

    Kaktovik, Alaska on Barter Island in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR), yes the place with all the off limits oil has a little problem with Polar Bears. Seems they learned when Whaling season occurs, and come into town in August to wait for their free buffet once the locals land a few...
  6. arcticracer

    Corrosion pics from coastal Alaskan arctic sites

    We battle constantly to win the war with corrosion in coastal areas of Alaska, especially in the Arctic. Here are a few pics of LNA's that have failed, one got wiped out during the recent solar outage period. The site went down during the outage and never came back, turned out the gain of the...
  7. arcticracer

    Unbelievable Alaska Photos

    This is a C band system, so fair game I guess. Here is a C band earth station located on top of a mountain in N. Central Alaska at a USAF radar site, after a bit of a blow passed through. The conditions up there can be somewhat harsh.
  8. arcticracer

    Shaw 107 and 111 on 48" round dish, Alaska

    Well yesterday I made my first attempt to get more than one LNB working on a single dish. All I have are round (non-elliptical) dishes, various sizes. I am in Central Alaska, the 48" is pointed at 107, so I left it there and fashioned a second bracket for another KU lnb and looked for a "hot...
  9. arcticracer

    Signal levels-Fairbanks, Alaska

    This week I had to move my feed for 110 from a 48" dish to a 1 meter to free up the 48" for use on Shaw Direct. I am using a 6' Andersen on 119 and after reading threads here about the good signals on 110, decided to use my smallest dish for 110. I have not messed with my dish stuff lately...
  10. arcticracer

    C-Band Hell

    I was recently working in Pt. Hope, Alaska on a job and took these photos of the Village's abandoned Satellite TV Cable Headend. And you thought your installation was messy? Pt. Hope is above the Arctic Circle, on the NW coast.
  11. arcticracer

    Starchoice in Alaska-Question

    I have been online a good part of the day attempting to figure out how I can restart my SC service in Alaska. I am a former customer of Freeway (yeah I know, I was using them for a long time and had the same problems). I have a Navigo receiver which has only been used through Freeway. It has...
  12. arcticracer

    Modifying Andersen 1.8 Meter Dish with Polar Mount/Motor

    I am planning on fabricating a sturdy, light, and easily adjustable polar mount for a 6" Andersen dish. I live in Central Alaska, and am going to try to see what I can pick up FTA in my area. I don't have a FTA receiver yet, and have no experience with them. I have tinkered around with DBS...
  13. arcticracer

    Nimiq 4 Central Alaska on 18" Dish!

    I had an old 18" DirecTV dish still in the box laying around, so I decided to give it a try on Nimiq 4 since I was pegging the meter on a 6' dish. First I tried it on 91, I got a lock on most transponders, but there were 3 or 4 that I could not bring in. On Nimiq 4 though, I am getting 60-80%...
  14. arcticracer

    BEV in Central Alaska-Report

    New member, just finished setting up a BEV system in Central Alaska, with a 6' Andersen antenna. no transponder weaker than 83%, most are 100%, on the installation screen.