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Mesh dishes have no practical wind load advantage over a solid dish of the same dimension. Mesh dishes should always be calculated exactly the same as a solid dish.

Sorry, but have IRLP only.

I've used Baird for years and have always been delighted with their quality of workmanship, attention to detail, and the great care taken in preparing their items for shipment. Baird even custom manufactured me a special part when my client encountered a difficult installation. I'm a very...

I use the SG-2100 on my 1.2m Ku SatelliteAV dish with good results. I'd get the one with the Moteck motor. Since the SG-2100 is a licensed product, they are not all created equally. It's also important to get the larger tube upgrade so backlash is minimized. These tubes are available on eBay.

Sounds like a great idea. Any photos? :)

You won't find any better people to deal with. They treat customers like royalty.

Two inches might be a significant amount of area on the outside of a dish, but hey, we've got less windloading! ;)

Excellent advise. :) Not to take anything away from people having some fun experimenting, but.. for C-Band, I have discovered anything less than 1.2m is a waste of time. A six footer (1.8m) is the minimal size for decent gain and acceptable adjacent satellite rejection.

Thanks for the source info. Kapton also makes a wonderful high voltage insulator and bypass capacitor when sandwiched between two aluminum plates. :up

So the E-Layer is responsible (55-95 miles up). I thought the attenuation was primarily in the troposphere (about 12 miles up). Nice tip.

I've never experience any significant coupling between dishes. Sometimes LNBF's can pick up TI, such as 2.4 GHz wireless telephones. I've experienced signal degradation from reflections from nearby objects, such as walls and vegetation. Your photos show an above ground installation which is...

SES-1 is at 101W, not 103W. Thanks

AMC-1 was replaced last week by replacement satellite SES-1. Has anybody noticed if the 26 degree skew offset is still present? I noticed a couple of fixed receive only systems are showing slightly lower Eb/No.

No need to watch local HD on a pizza pan when a small OTA antenna will give you much better quality. :)

Did he forget to use a 30 degree pipe? :confused:

Watching less, but like having Off Beat Cinema on more often.

Check out this link: power measurement

I'm getting both channels fine. They just popped in without doing anything.The RTV West fed is running Daniel Boone right now with the Tuff TV bug.

That's very commendable for salespeople these days. Yeah, it's pretty amazing the number of distant OTA HD channels that can be received, but most are greatly affected by atmospheric conditions, at least in this neck of the woods.

Thanks for the link.

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It's great seeing so many ham posts! I've always wanted to go to Dayton because it's the largest ham convention in the world. Kind of like the NAB show (National Association of Broadcasters) for hams. For you West Coast Hams who can't attend Dayton, why not attend the second best ham...

If you have an LPFM radio station you're probably best to be 100% original. Why not extend your coverage with internet radio? I'd step up to the plate with great programming of your own making.

RadioShack was a great backup place when you were in a pinch for electronic parts. They recently discontinued so many items, that I don't see how they get enough traffic in their stores to survive. Oh BTW, their wire and cable has always been among the worst quality available.

That's the million dollar question and an excellent question indeed. There are several solutions posted on this site if you do a comprehensive search. I have experimented a lot with this and have found there is no "free lunch" here.