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    Anyone using the Orthomode Feedhorn from TEK2000/Aliexpress ?

    I been using aliexpress ortho with my 5150's.I purchased for $15 2yrs ago edit almost 3 now. it has been fine. I also have 2 chapparal 1329 and a couple bullseyes but have not had time to do any comparison yet. Used the chap scaler was on my dish. Was leary because price too good to be true but...
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    Electrical wiring for dish

    Are you going to use servo or not? There are likely 4 terminals on you actuator and 4 on the vbox so you need 4 conductors. you can do it anyway you want but as suggested 14awg will be fine for actuator motor and even smaller is fine for sensor, some suggest shielded twisted pair. But I have...
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    Ku band LNBF Mounting Ideas Needed

    Or bin your lnbf plan and use proper bullseye or dp4 or other dual ortho. Because ku band lnbf are made for offset not prime focus and fd ratio. internal scaler incorrect for application. if must sidecar use flanged and ku prime focus flat feed horn
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    Installing a 10 foot cband dish into side of a building

    when I google windload 10ft mesh i get this Wind force on the antennas (worst case wind normal to face) 2547 lbs.
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    FCC to sell c band spectrum

    Canadian spectrum auction 2022
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    Vintage C-Band Dish Mover for Spare

    That first ebay link is crazy overpriced i paid 1/2 that from Drsat past spring
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    Broadcasters Slam FCC C Band Proposal

    stecle Pacificrim posted here Government of Canada C Band Survey about upcoming 2022 canadian spectrum auction
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    Norsat 5150 vs 3120

    1 last comment in regard to op. I saw no gain improvement with 5150f over dro only more stability enabled lock on 16apsk feeds with not alot of error correction that I was not able to reliably lock prior. Many claim stronger signal but I didn't see it in back to back db comparison. Only larger...
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    Norsat 5150 vs 3120

    Your choice of feed is very nice and infinitely adjustable with asc1. But if purchase is not made yet put some consideration into orthomode as I hear Alberta is very cold and polarizer for polarity and skew commonly fail, perhaps not the case with lower humidity in west. But here I don't think...
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    Norsat 5150 vs 3120

    Both lnb in op are pll. I have pair of 5150f on a ortho feed they have performed ok. Choice was made because of cost, needed a pair for the ortho but if i was purchasing a single for a feed with skew probably would have choose 3120. I could not go with feed like that have too many tuners and...
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    Government of Canada C Band Survey

    I filled it out. Doubt they going to show up at your location.Probably just a dot on a map that may prevent possible interference from 5g tower or might get you free filter if 1 goes up. I think in US cband alliance was refunding for registration and any filter required for registered earth...
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    DX Antenna DSB-400 Positioner

    I purchased used motec vbox close to 7 years ago still working fine
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    What LNB,lnbf and should i use a feed horn on 8'prime focus dish

    I believe he is saying Chaparral feed horn with norsat lnb or lnb's and all other lnbf or feed horn lnb combination are inferior
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    Best LNB/LNBF and feedhorn

    Chaparral ortho feed and pair norsat 3000 series with modded multi switch. I had lower budget so settled for ortho and pair norsat 5150f's
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    How do I get started

    Is your servo rectangle box or cylinder? Chaparral made some polarotor with cylindrical dc motor instead of servo and it used only 2 wire.
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    GI 650i analog receiver POWER OUTAGE, Why???

    Sounds like receivers internal power supply electrolytic capacitors are old and failing. In the time it takes to switch recepticals they discharge so when plugged in again it works. Next time it occures try just unplugging wait some time then replug in same socket. Possibly yeild same result. If...
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    CBS and 4.2.2

    If you went with newer gpu gt1030 or gtx1050 and you could hardware accelerated h265 4k
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    CBS and 4.2.2

    Old Q9450 quad, 6gig ram, gtx1050, dvbviewer, switch renderer to overlay
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    New to the Fta world

    Got Vbox II second hand n 2012 use daily without issue. But I believe asc1 will control polarity if using a feedhorn with servo the vbox will not..
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    Recommendations for 4K Receivers

    NASA plays fine for me. I use an older TBS card and hardware decode h265 with gtx1050 gpu. Played fine also on nieghbors sf4008 think most any h265 capable box will work