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    Receiving digital channels using older lnb?

    Hi gang, I would like to know if you can tune stations like STO SD, France24, etc. on Galaxy 23 C using a 10 ft. prime focus dish and an older Chapparal combo feedhorn and Hemt (20 degrees) C band lnb with a polorotor attached? The dish is mesh and I would hook up to either a Fortec Star or...
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    C band Back in the day

    Picture number 3 looks like a Videocipher with a stereo processor unit on top. When I bought my first C band system in '86, the receiver was a Drake unit with a remote having only a few buttons... when you tuned to one of the Telstar birds and went to audio subcarriers you could actually listen...
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    T4 Nebraska

    Davage, I have an extra Polarotor motor (working) I don't need. Be glad to mail it to you no charge. Please explain the process of PM ( I assume means private message?) on the forum. I have never quite understood how it works.
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    Anik F1R C with Chaparral feed & LNB?

    Several dishes now Just got a free Dish Pro dish with 3 lnbfs, one was a Band Stacked FSS unit that I plan to use for PBS on 125 W Ku using 3/4 of a 10 foot center focus mesh -- one panel missing. I get G 18 Equity channels with this setup, though for how long, who knows? Here are pictures of...
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    Anik F1R C with Chaparral feed & LNB?

    Anik F1C Revisited Thank you Phlatwound, Iceberg and others who responded to my post of Thursday. I took 4 pictures of my dishes and one of the Chapparal/C Hemt that I have mounted on a camera tripod. As soon as I figure out howto copy them from my computer desktop to the message window, I'll...
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    Anik F1R C with Chaparral feed & LNB?

    Hello and rejoice in improving weather in the Northeast! I have an offset Ku solid 2.4 m 110 volt dish that is set in fixed position facing south -- roughly toward 100 deg. W. From left to right I have lnbfs stuck in ground on poles/rods and secured with clamps: BSC 621 -2 C band...
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    Galaxy 16 C with Primestar?

    Has anyone had success pulling in transponder 7 C band on G16--3845 Horizontal using a BSC-21-2 LNB and a Primestar dish? Is it anywhere near as strong as the World Harvest tp at 4000 Horiz? I think perhaps Iceberg may have received World Harvest using Primestar(?) Would appreciate any links...
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    Dual Feed Question

    Just got a 10 ft. mesh dish and I have a dual feed Chapparal set with Ku LNB phemt .rated at 0.7 db gain, and C band hemt LNB at 20 degrees. I wish to aim the dish at 99 W to get the Network channels from Puerto Rico / Virgin Is. Can I hook up the C band LNB directly to my receiver (Humax 3150)...