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Here's my sunny day fool proof solar outage gauge. When the black shadow is in the dish bullseye it's time to change birds or wait awhile :)

Started C band in the early 1990's. We used to get together here to watch the Star Trek feeds on UPN a couple days before they were broadcast. Great one up on the co workers who were fans too.

Though not the first time I'd seen a satellite dish, the most memorable was 1978 in Singapore. As I was riding to our destination in the cab I noticed all the dishes looked like huge bird baths pointing straight up. We were on the equator.

All so more idiots can sit around staring at their leash - I mean phone.

Feedhorn or skew off by 90 deg would be my guess.

25 years of Ham radio here N0QBH. Tech licence in 1991 and Advanced class since 1993.

Replaced the old Chaparral C band LNB with a whackadoodle servo over the weekend with Titanium's C1 PLL LNBF. Wow! Best 40 bucks I've spent in awhile. Thanks Titanium!

The servo's worn out because I control it with one of my home brew coax voltage sensing servo positioners and I never turned off the servo pulse train in the code. When doing the "predesign" I scoped out my Uniden 4400 and it keeps pulsing all the time, but at a reduced level?? That said, mine...

Got an issue that recently cropped up with my C band signal and I suspect the polarity servo is going bad. I'm measuring about 250 mA @ 5v to the servo while it should be at it's set position. That figure looks more like it is still trying to move or is cycling back and forth, but I thought I'd...

That's why I ask before I go to work :) Some of us (like me) think everything I think of is cool and need to ask. However, since I've already done the heavy lifting it might get done the next snowstorm

Not really. I've been PIC since the git go. I've glanced the others over and noted the similarities at least from a assembly language programmers perspective. I'm sure this program would port over fine in translated assembly.

The title says it all. A few years ago I wrote the code for a PIC based DiseqC decoder that displays to a LCD. Lately I've been using these Bluetooth modules for a ham application, but was thinking today that it might be a good fit for the DiseqC decoder. Presently, the decoder only outputs the...

BTW Magic, very nice work! It sounds like a good learning experience too. That's why I do this. :)

It's been awhile since I wrote the program so I had to check. The unit doesn't store the last skew when turned off because that part doesn't have non volatile memory (EEPROM). Most likely because my system stays on 24/7, I just turn off the tele.

Here's my "tools of the trade". I use a lot of socketed PICs in my projects. I guess that came from the tendency to blow them up early on :)

You will need to talk to the fellow who made the video. Ante moved to the US from Croatia 3 yrs ago and is obviously good with his hands. Kinda reminds me of another Croatia immigrant we all owe a great debt of gratitude to - Nikola Tesla.

Got an eamil a couple weeks ago from a fellow wanting to make my deluxe Corotor servo skew controller. http://www.ringolake.com/pic_proj/satellite/sat_projects.html I answered his question and sort of forgot about it. Yesterday I get another email with a Utube video of his work. Quite impressive...

Updated the web page - new stuff - new link. http://www.ringolake.com/pic_proj/satellite/sat_projects.html

Heard from my builder friend and he says he will start on the basic polarotor servo controller project after New Years holidays. This design isn't on my webpage yet, but will be soon. It's a super simple version of my other one without the LCD display and encoder input.

That may be doable. I'll email Jerry and see what he says. Another builder tells me he bought one of these for $20 and really likes it. http://www.ebay.com/itm/110740401456?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1436.l2649 Lotsa bang for the buck. Haven't used it myself - I'm a Microchip...

Antoniof, You might be better off waiting for the fellow who turns my projects into finished items. He usually makes pcbs for the project too. I don't rush him as we are both hobbyists, but in the past, he has done great work very reasonably. I will keep the group posted on it's progress. Mike

Took advantage of the (probably) last warm weather on Wednesday and swapped my corotor C/Ku feed horn with the original C band only. Noticed the signal levels jumped about 5% on the Micro HD meter:) Who knew going backwards would bring me forward? I'd have to say from my own experience, if you...

Not having any issues - was more of a technical question. Mike

Anyone know how much of a difference there is between a C band only feed horn and one with C/Ku ? I'm sure there must be some degradation with that Ku "antenna" in the middle of the C band feed horn throat. Since I have both a BUD and a Ku dish now, would it be worthwhile to switch back to a...

Here's a couple of photos of the servo controller connected to a C band feed horn and a current meter in line. Looking down the throat of the feed horn shows the angle of the probe antenna. This photo shows the skew adjusted 35 degrees from default of -45. Turning the knob gives up to 90...