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Thanks photoman, I'll keep searching.

I'm trying to aim a CBand dish. I'm at -111.04W, so I figured I should use Anik F2 to aim the bud (on a polar mount). I can get signals from 107.3 and 113W but 111W seems to be dead? Is anyone able to get any MPEG transponders from it? I've been looking for 3865H5000 but had no luck. If...

There's more than one way to do it, but here are the steps I would take if I was new at this... (1) Buy an Arduino... I'd get either the RBBB or the BBB from Welcome | Modern Device. RBBB and BBB are two different versions of the Arduino; either will work well. ModernDevice is a great...

I'm completely with you on that. I gave up Sirius because the quality of audio was so bad. Sure, some channels were listenable (maybe even slightly better than that), but the less-popular niche channels (and isn't that the whole reason to have it?) sounded dreadful.

Cool, looks good. Any chance you can post a larger version of the picture that's sort of in the center of the collage/mosaic image? The picture of the inside view of the F / power / xlr connectors? What are you using for bus wire on the perfboard? And is that wirewrap wire on the top-side...

Making a version of this that does DiceQC shouldn't be that hard (holds breath) and it could do what Anole wants *and* be modular. I drew out a circuit to get the 22kHz signal to the arduino, but I think it's long gone (like my current measurements, of which I did, but I don't remember the...

Time for me to chime in to several of the posts all at once without quoting anything; let's see how I can do... Budfoot's design is very nice, and a commercial design would certainly want to follow his circuit more than mine. I'm not sure if he's releasing the hardware GPL or not, but... If...

When you say, "give me a hand" what are you expecting? Do you have your pipe? Do you have the concrete? Are you looking for someone with experience to help make sure you do it right? Or are you looking for someone to do all the digging? ;)

I believe that it will still be able to view analog signals, and move a dish and control polarity. You certainly won't be able to watch any 4DTV/DCII channels. In order to get a new ID you have to send it somewhere and have them put in a new battery and re-program the ID. Most people consider...

That's an interesting idea, I could bump the dish 1/2 between two sats and then search for a 4 degree sat. If If I find one, that would let me know that a 4 degree sat lies inside the scalar ring. So if 4 degrees is within the scalar ring area, is it futile to search further out? 6 degrees...

I have a cheapy analog meter; the kind that come in the diy install kits with a crap compass. Would that be worth using?

A few weeks ago I decided to try and add a Ku Band LNBF to my C Band bud. I climbed up on a ladder, and tried to find a signal that was 2 degrees west, and then east... Then 4 degrees, but never got a beep from my receiver. Is this fool-hardy? Can anyone give me any tips? I have a fixed...

I'm still around if anyone has any questions about this project. I used it for 6 months, but am now using a dual output cband lnbf. The controller worked fine with my Coolsat 4000, but my Visionsat 200 would sometimes require me to flip from one polarity to another before it would lock in. I...

I think I was missing it before Sunday, so it's probably on my end. I put a new dual-output cband lnbf on the dish and all of my signals got a lot stronger, but now I'm missing a few curious channels. Something must be a bit off.

I'm getting V and H channels on 103W, but none of the ION channels. Nothing on 3840 or 4044. I searched the forums, but only saw ION on DN's bird discussed. Is ION still up there on 103W? Thanks

Thanks for posting that.

Why do the CW channels require manual PID? It makes me wonder if we're missing anything else up there.

Wow, worked like a charm. Thanks.

From an old thread... I can not seem to get my 920 to do voltage controlled polarity switching. Under "Dish Settings" I've tried C-Band LNB and C-Band LNBF to no avail. With "LNB" I can get horizontal but not vertical. With "LNBF" I get neither. I'm using a dual output cband LNBF that...

What exactly does this mean? How do I "tune the audio up"? Thanks

Here's my homebrew solution. I've had it running now for at least a month, and it's been a dream... Polarotor Servo Controller

Are you using a polarotor or a voltage controlled LNB?

Is this for a 6' dish? Or would it be the same for an 8' or 10'?

1.0 schematic and code posted: http://www.retards.org/projects/polarotor_servo_controller/

Sorry, didn't mean to post this in the Cband section. Can someone move it for me? Thanks.