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Thank you for your comments. I am thinking of trying one of those GT Media UHD receivers, too.

Hi all, I did not have a chance to return to the forum before now. Yes, I was referring to ham radio Amateur TV (ATV) digital signals in the DVB-S format. When I mentioned "a lot of people watching", indeed I meant other hams who are not yet able to get involved with two-way TV operation but...

For lightning protection, I would just go ahead and unplug it each time. Buy spare cables and/or 8P8C/RJ-45 couplers for if/when things wear out. Forget using any kind of switch to protect against lightning, probably not worth the risk.

LNBF: Low Noise Barking Fido. "His Master's Transponder".

Some of us ham radio operators are setting up our own digital TV stations, and one relatively inexpensive way to do so is with DVB-S equipment (but on land, not through satellites). $25 a receiver means we could get a lot of people watching our signals locally.

If I was doing this right now, switching between the satellite finder (TV-screen device) and your regular receiver would seem to just confuse me as I tried to remember what I had last tested. After stepping away and returning as kodaz suggested, maybe try this: When you received 100+ channels...

He is in Canada. I wonder if they have an equivalent of our OTARD law?

Monoprice product #1373 is a two-way RJ45 (or 8P8C) mechanical switch that will do what you need. It sells for less than US$10. I can post a link if needed.

Hi all- I bought and installed an ESX242 dual-output C-band LNBF and an Ecoda 22 kHz switch, and everything is working well. The DSR-922 is happy on Digicipher and NTSC signals, and the X2 Premium is running the Ku dish/motor fine through the Ecoda switch as well as C-band through the other...

I thought about it more, after reading more comments elsewhere, and I realized that if we think of it in terms of elevation (which is what vertical versus horizontal is), then horizontal is indeed 0 degrees and vertical is 90.

Thank you for the confirmations, waylew and Anole. I looked for a dual-band, dual-output LNBF but could not find one, and I saw comments saying that smaller dishes are better for Ku reception anyway.

I think you described it very clearly. It is the satellite-dish equivalent of "fish-tankers", people who destroy antique TV sets by ripping out the chassis and using the cabinet to hold liquor, or a flat-panel TV, or a fish tank.

FaT Air- Thank you for the quick reply. I did exactly that, and it solved the "problem".

Hi all- I bought an ESX242 dual-output C-band LNBF, and since my dish (10-foot KTI, I think) is motorized, I set the skew at 0 with the dish pointed at its apex/southernmost satellite (121 in my case). To me, zero meant "straight up" with the dish at the top of the arc. I connected one output...

Wow, that was the ultimate "dream" dish in the late 80s and 1990s. Those are the ones that lived through hurricanes in the Bahamas and similar places.

It seems to me that if a distributor for a certain area (North America or part of it, in this case) was "assigned" (presumably by the manufacturer) to work on firmware appropriate to that area, then: 1) That distributor should have been paid by the manufacturer for their work as part of the...

rv1pop- I do not want to hijack this topic, but I would like to know more about setting up an FTA dish while RV camping. Have you discussed or described your setup in any other posts or topics? Or, should I just start a new topic about it? Thanks.

My oddball "half-horizon" mount used a 4.5" OD pipe. When that unit went bad and I replaced it with a 3.5"-OD mount and dish, I bought two smaller sections of pipe and telescoped them together, with a couple of big Grade-8 nuts and bolts. It has worked fine for several years. Kraven, you could...

OK, thanks for the good ideas and comments on options.

Thank you for the detailed notes, Anola and madmadworld. The dish is the one in my avatar, but I posted a bigger picture below. My C-band LNB is indeed a Cal Amp, 25 degrees, bought in the late 1990s. The Ku on the 10' dish is an unknown one, maybe from SatMart around 1997-2000, 0.8 or 0.7 dB...

wallyhts- Thank you for the quick reply. I have looked a bit at the Map Master program/device and it does look interesting, especially the possibility of "naming" all of the satellites by their positions. It would be nice to have a readout on the front panel that displayed "97" or "21" (for...

Hi- I started with a 10-foot C-band dish system built from surplus components in 1995, and I upgraded it over the years (C/Ku, 4DTV, and a separate FTA receiver/dish/motor that I never got working right at first). Now I have a new FTA receiver, and I am thinking of upgrading and combining the...

Nice job!

It is probably not worth even reusing the case, since that machine is from 15+ years ago. For example, it will have no front USB connectors, which are very convenient. Its power supply is also not worth trying with recent motherboards. Here is a good guide to building a good home theater...

You are also missing C4 and W7, I see. Is the receiver a DSR-922, or a DSR-920? I have read that the '920s can lose "tiles" if they are unprogrammed from the list. The only idea I have is to maybe change your LNB setting from C only to C/Ku or others if available, then back if needed. However...