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Chances are that a piece of conduit might be at least as long as the entire feed support. Your replacement will be much stronger and less likely to crumble from corrosion if you can remove existing feed arm and try to duplicate the entire length, with similar bends. And you will need to use a...

Disconnect the Satellite input coax cable from the receiver, and then try turning the power on again. Sometimes over time things will happen to cables that causes them to short out (ground to center conductor). If this is the case, your receiver was trying to protect itself from that shorting...

Click on the PR 1200 link above, and you should see a picture showing two F-connectors on the back.

George Antunes of Houston, TX passed away on November 21, 2023. His name may be less than familiar to most Satellite Guys members, but he was instrumental in working behind the scenes to "spread the gospel" of satellite reception during the 90s and the first half of the 2000 decade. George was...

Actually I have to give most of the credit to George Antunes in Houston, who provided constant updates of all kinds of interesting news. Gary and I may have read much of this, but George was our primary source.

I would use a flat black paint rather than gloss type if you must have the scalar ring black. Remember that the f/d ratio on a Pinnacle Perf is very close to 0.28, so confirm that you have the feed and scalar in that depth before fine tuning the focal point. Chaparral Gold Rings were used as an...

Between your contributions, and everything I encountered while searching in Denver in 2019, Bob was able to reconstruct the collection of Coop's Satellite Digest and the New Zealand-based SatFacts. He put updated information on his website. Thank you again!

You are most welcome. Bob's health had been failing for some time, but I was still not ready for his passing. It was a privilege to know him as a colleague and good friend. May he finally rest in peace.

I just received a note from Bob Cooper's wife that he has recently passed away. Bob (Robert Britt Cooper, Jr) was the father of the home satellite industry, and we all owe him a debt of gratitude for planting the seeds that started this industry, starting with an article in TV Guide magazine...

Looks like UP Satellite from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Probably one of the companies that got out of the business shortly after HBO and Showtime started scrambling in early 1986. When I lived on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula (1981-1987), I sold a number of 14-foot Paraclipse knockoffs made by...

I had a dish tracking as best as I could, from 55.5 to 135 West, although I suspected that there was room for improvement on furthest east satellites such as 55.5 and 58 West. Winter arrived before I could make further adjustments, so I tolerated what I had. After some serious windstorms...

101 and 105 do have frequencies in use in the lower part of the 3700-4200 MHz band. On 105, you have services destined for reception in Mexico, which is not part of this frequency shift. If you are out of range of 5G interference, these channels can still be picked up. If you have 5G...

Satellites are tested in the west end of the arc just after launch, and once that is completed, are allowed to slowly drift over to their final permanent orbital slot. Several weeks are normally required, to minimize any stationkeeping fuel usage. Any wasted resources work against the...

Looks like Weigel pulled all of their single channel C-band feeds on 101 West. 3924, 3928, 3932, 3936, 3940, 3944 and 3952 MHz horizontal carriers have vanished. It's not the end of the world however, as these channels can now be seen on one frequency. Look at 4180 MHz horizontal, 30.000 SR to...

Between the weather and removing a rear molar, I had delays in getting my installation of this dish finalized. It is finally tracking as good as it is going to get, working well from 55.5 West to 135 West. I am using an antique V Box 7 with a very efficient Von Weise V-76-5 24 inch linear...

I grabbed a floor model of an Alpha 10 at a trade show in Las Vegas. It was actually a private label version made for Tee Comm by SAMI / Superior Antenna in Arkansas, back in 1990. Tee Comm was also one of the backers of the original Alphastar Ku-band system.

I remember seeing this antenna and HH mount at a satellite trade show in the early 90s. Obviously the manufacturer became a casualty of the war in Yugoslavia, and likely went out of business. The solid reflector had some of the most robust and accurate forming that I ever saw in my life. Motor...

Thank you so much Casey. I have spent the last several weeks bringing lots of mount parts to a metal scrapper. It's been six years since I sold my 22 acre property and removed the antenna farm, and four years at my new house in a small village that my new wife and I purchased. Just quit a day...

Older early Paraclipse antennas had a "center" declination setting that corresponded to a certain latitude. A set of wide and thin shims were included with the installation so that you could insert proper amount of Declination up or down from that setting. Kind of crude, but it worked at the...

There is a mux for WGN on 125 West---but it is scrambled. That's probably where they are.

I spoke with Ralf earlier in the year...he has been hanging in there...have not checked since the last few weather events, so will try to connect with him in the next few days.

Ralf moved his operation from New Orleans down to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, and is no longer set up as before. He did well when New Orleans was the center of many news stories such as the last big oil spill, but the market for operating an independent drop in facility for people to host...

Thank you for that update---it gives me hope that once I revive a 10 foot Winegard Pinnacle Perf, it will be reliable. Just for grins I might spin an existing 7.5 foot Paraclipse Hydro over there to see if it works at all. If I want HD from Anchorage, there is the KTUU-NBC app available in...

Is anyone receiving this new Alaska mux east of the Rockies? Lyngsat does not yet have an EIRP map for C-band coverage of AMC-6 at 139 West location, but another source indicates a +30 dBw receive level might be possible roughly west of the Mississippi River. If you can receive it, please...

Back in 1990 I was part of a crew that disassembled a simulsat from a casino near Los Angeles, and then transported it and reassembled/reinstalled at the UCLA campus. The amount of effort and materials to accomplish dissassembly, moving and reinstallation cannot be underestimated. It took two...