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Update on THAT dish, that wasn't even supposed to be done with it. The owner was going to scrap it anyway, but didn't want the time spent fooling around with it and pitting up the lawn in the process. Upon discussing it with the owner, a chewing out session followed with the young man...

I'm trying. I would have wound up with a mesh dish, still on the pole, and with the concrete ball on the bottom end. Until someone else got to that and cut it up.

I'm still alive. And trying to figure out where I left off. No new news, really. I really need to pick these up and bring them home. Provided the larger one wasn't involved in the storm last year everything is hopefully how I left it. Its amazing what you lose track of when everything else ties...

Fiber optic may be the wave of the future, but C and Ku are sure to remain an integral part of it.

Always open to ideas, and at this point, there are no bad ones. I just might do this over the top of all of the repairs to finish it down smooth.

It sure did. Set pretty solid and doesn't look like it's going to jump off of it either. Watch this spot. More coming when I hit it again.:cool

Here's what I got. Not near as bad as I thought it would be. If I can find a way to get this stuff to pack in better, the rest there will fill in nicely. There's enough spaghetti over the one hole and weathering around it that I should be able to throw a piece of mat or cloth on it and that...

Something I noticed and is still the case, is that the material doesn't pack very well. I'm sure I'm going to have cavities, which will need to be busted back open and packed back in again.

Hope so. I'm a long ways off from bird watching but I'm still anxious to get it to that point. Seems to be taking forever to set too. I'd like to get it picked up so it's not laying in the yard.

Anyone ever notice and wonder why your repair material sticks better to you and to the applicator than it does what you're repairing? :wtf2 Anyway, after a few cuss sessions and several attempts reapplying the material, this is what I have. I'm starting to feel sick from this too so I'm going to...

Okay, here's where I'm at. I've never done this before, so this spot is a good trial run more than anything. I got this and all the others prepped a week ago. This is the spacing I'm going to try on today just to see how it goes. The two spots here are both from impact on the face, as well as...

Besides, close to $1,000 for equipment and one channel? I don't think so. My LNB rail will have a DBS LNB on 119 and another one on 110 and I'll be on the phone with Dish before I do that.

I'm listening to this radio feed right now too. I'm gone from feeling really stupid to getting really mad. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/satelliteguys/2013/08/01/satellite-nation-1?AID=CJSource&utm_source=CJ&PID=6147007 Okay, back to the original plan. Repair my dishes, get my feed arms built...

Oh my god what kind of character is this? How is anything this clown has here even legal? And how did I cross such a loser besides Google? I feel so bleeping stupid right now.

Could this be the future of C-band programming we're hoping for? Or am I seeing things? http://www.Raindeersatellite.com/ Or someone needs to explain something to me because I have no idea what just happened. What's the reindeer about?

Good to know. I'll keep that in mind.

Cool. But is there something on more of an entry-level type deal? Mainly want to check the signal from a single bird using this dish, and quite possibly, which birds made into a flock using a multiple LNB mount. And what I meant about using the ugly mini dishes as a model is comparing the LNB...

What's a good receiver to start thinking about?

I almost forgot. In addition to the Prodelins, I also have two of the long elliptical DBS dishes. One is a Super Dish and the other is a Direct Slimline. I wonder if these would be useful in anything like this. Or at least provide a model for me somewhere down the road since both are multiple...

All good to know and will give me something to think about. I've got my focal lengths too, after plugging in the information on the Prodelin data sheets. Once I get all of the necessary repairs made I can begin constructing. :)

Found this. Should come in handy in the near future, so I'm going to offload it here. http://www.gdsatcom.com/vsat/Technical_Docs/geometry_drawings/4000-006.pdf This too. http://www.gdsatcom.com/vsat/Technical_Docs/geometry_drawings/4000-003.pdf

Multiple LNB setups look like a lot of fun. I see the mounts for multiple LNBs on offset dishes being straight rather than being bowed, I figured the focal length wouldn't be uniform going across like that. Or does that only work on certain dishes? Would I be able to use the parabola calculator...

I'll have to look at these a little later when I can actually sit down and read through them and look at everyone's setups. From the sound of things though, it seems as simple as picking the birds you want, and setting the LNB for each bird within the arc corresponding the birds you want, along...

Tell you what though. ;) If the boxes still sit there, you can save your stickers. I'll take 'em. ;)

Trash them? No way! There's plenty of space inside that box to do something else with if no good for anything else. Multiple LNB's, would I somehow need to interface a switch in there somehow? There's receivers that rotate the dish to the bird you want, not sure how it works otherwise.