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  1. WesTheTinkerer

    I humbly present to you: "My Meager Setup".

    Here are the few dishes I have managed to scrape up and hobble together to date. Top Right (background) is a WSI 99cm x 90cm and the only one I have purchased so far. It works well. At top left ( again in the background ) we have a Slimline which I pulled from my neighbor's trash, paired with a...
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    Newbie Help, 10' Orbitron assembly instructions needed.

    I got a 10' Orbitron but I have no idea which model. All I can find printed on the dish is a serial #. I would like to disassemble it and clean it up but I don't even know if it was put together right in the first place. All I can find out so far is it's supposed to be assembled on the pole. Is...
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    Active cooling for better noise figure

    I was thinking about removing the cover of a Ku LNB to expose the aluminum housing and then placing some dry ice on it or wrapping some fine copper tubing around it and circulating some ice water through it. It may throw off the L.O. stability too much so that any improvement in S/N would be...
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    WSI 9036 90 x 99 cm dish to versions same model #?

    Does anyone own a WS International 9036 with the painted on elevation scale? The video on their site showing how to assemble it shows a white painted dish with a elevation scale that is painted on. The dish I have has the same model number but is painted gray with a stamped in elevation scale...
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    AMC5 Gone?

    Hello everyone, I have a newbie question, I couldn't find AMC5 at 79W and then noticed that SatBeams has it listed at 81W. Does anyone know if it is still active, where it's gone, or where its programming has moved to? I thought I was going crazy at first till I found out it wasn't where...