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    24 foot 3 1/2" Structural Steel Pipe, good for 10' Dish?

    This pipe new, without welding is 9.00 or more a foot 9x9= eighty-one dollars; yes; materials a worth more new.;; and cost less old; and steel @ 3.0 id sched. 40 holds the big dish down, and they listed the types found all over the US from the 80's to the 90's...
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    Got a 12ft C-band dish, need help identifying it

    Look's like a Columbian; the Columbian was about eleven feet 8"; had a long nosed center or a 4 strut. Could it be a Echo from old? Has the same mount as the Echostar did; but i have not seen one that old lately. Actually it is very easy to get it going again. Brute force tactics is holding them...
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    identify this BUD

    Unimesh dish is what it aims at; direction is the lnbf angle; measured from directly under the LNB/feed/polarotor ( or lnbf if the LNB/Feed or lnbf are center of dish w/o offset; also from under the dish plate at the center or horizontal of the dish; or outside circle of the entire dish.If it is...
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    Aiming and peaking a C-band LNB - more guesswork than science?

    Dish shape determines all adjustment's to any parts you place onto them; that every dish is different means any one dish must be different than any other; but free to air satellites/frequencies available do not change; they are stuck within the range they are used and planned for; that any dish...
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    8ft C band dish with CK1S combo LNB not getting KU

    Then I make sure the dish is perfectly aimed at the two ku satellites nearest to perfect true south to make directional gain perfect then adjust the eastern and western satellites to gain directionals; perfectly tune the LNBf for center focus (aimed at middle of dish) and focal length is tuned...
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    8ft C band dish with CK1S combo LNB not getting KU

    F/D ratio's are exactly that the entire dish as an amplifier of a microwave; focusing a direction inside the cavity; basically a cone from the width of the cavity, to a single point. The distance from the width to the point is the size of interior round cavity; ku is smaller width cavity and...
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    Need SatelliteGuys Assistance for C-band Feedhorn Alignment Tool Project

    Well, I have decided that I wpuld build my own again; using flat round 1/4" solid piece of alum. aircraft type and a pattern like a tool used to make a pulley puller round inside the flat part (micrometer interior sizer how wide the opening is); then straight telescopic center of tool; to middle...
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    Is there any kind of kit to use multiple feedhorn/LNB's on a single dish?

    offsetting LNBf's from a center focus designed for one lnbf shadow only; means that the more lnbf's you mount, the more each cause shadow to each others direction it receives from. The DBS type is around 8 degree's also because of the shadows at aim for their spacing of the satellites; and ku...
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    Is there any kind of kit to use multiple feedhorn/LNB's on a single dish?

    Here is the directions for multi-c band. They did not write directions for using a satellite dish without shadows after the cable companies put fences up to hide their dishes. Here is a picture of the design I have used which is offset for elevation accrued using the middle of a c band sized...
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    Look what I found today!

    I have used one person holding a block; and another on the other side; to pound dents. And bending the holes back to even with the tears. This takes most of the reflectors missing signal back to the proper gains needed today. So, it will perform the " level " it needs to get itself back to...
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    Digital Breakup on 101 C Band

    Well, the channel id; vid; aid; freq. polarity fec symbol rate are all included on this threads island...please, i am camped on Canada now myself...... Paste them into it. I will get mine soon as one of them has to power up an lnb manual polarity I think the tuner is a sharp V7 chime/charm...
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    Satellite Motor Actuator Sensor .. Who the heck knows.

    Well, the burnt capacitor is indication of a shorted wire; as I have seen in the past. The non-polarized caps will not burn; but will break connection; and mostly keep you from breaking any more equipment hooking it up to a mover box. The short is between the 36 direction wires; and the ground...
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    Digital Breakup on 101 C Band

    As I have noticed in the past and experienced; stuttering; or blipping can mean many things. .am i missing something? One of the cases I had was in 4dtv 920/22 and the digicipher light; and it is still today a per instance deal; where each receiver will be the problem; or any of the...
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    Digital Breakup on 101 C Band

    thanks waveman for your topic I have seen much TI in my day; button sized dishes call it noise. When the signal to noise ratio is determined using something called a spectrum analyzer, then a solution can be made. However, my microHD has a heating problem; i took the board out of the box to...
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    C Band Radio

    spot beam in mentality; they are only vlc; or does it work on kodi? As the Alaska part was low power; and the satellite is put onto 107; they are scanning encrypted; but the audio is now sent National on the CONUS for Alaska in strength? See, originally; on AMC 8; the beam was very regional...
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    New to C Band, planning a mini "farm"

    During the time i have used, installed, and per-used this item; an 4-6-8-10 foot dish; c or ku or both; i have seen every channel available for free tv first (and all the debut's of new channels, like scifi, sportsmans channel; and even when there were only 5 digital channels (all Arabic/Farsi)...
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    New to C Band, planning a mini "farm"

    These were the days, as is today; to me. As free tv, it was so beautiful as a installation; the moto(r)'s the wires; the huge feedhorns; the 2 wire-servo; the LARGENESS of all the parts; before 1981 and Ku with a mini-bud. I sold my toki; 4 foot dish workin' downconverter lnbf; now i want to buy...
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    New to C Band, planning a mini "farm"

    Welcome to the C Band satellite management system. The channels have a non-blurry production in quality; highest quality of the world is the productions it shows so well. If i told you what channels, i would have to also tell you all the best channels; and highest qualities; and in fact every...
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    Digital Breakup on 101 C Band

    As you all have said, the original TP issue is a problem in these 2 area's; of linear; it is basically a radar near them. For instance, where i am at, there is no TI source of almost any type (3.7-4.2) anymore. In the Cities, the new "globes" they hang on the freeway light the ground "up" with...
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    Digital Breakup on 101 C Band

    Soon the satellite belt is so full of slices, the size of the dish really matters more. And when new ones replace or are added, or a studio makes it adding. or varies or adds new wires in their original broadcast. The receiver is sensitive enough, but if new in additions include newer codec's or...
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    C-Band Dish Worth the Investment?

    Yes, I put one hdtv next to another; in fact many times; and I just cannot get a better quality; in Broadcast TV; via a local antenna is only close; to the pictures I see with my big c band dish. The 10' i am using was one just like that one (mine came with shotgun and firearms target practice...
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    C-Band Dish Worth the Investment?

    Ya, it look's like a mesh; 10'; aluminum. Cost's to cut tree's? Fire prevention? as it would cost around a k for a new one? Or it is still on property you own? C Band does have an android STB w/DVB-S2 to hook-it-up; electrically sensible is still true today; it really works good because it is...
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    C-Band Dish Worth the Investment?

    That is what my "Industry" is today, a C Band Satellite Dish. As a "Industry", or as a part of the Communication's Industry; these words pretty much describe a very wide range of participation. What a C Band satellite dish does for Free to Air receiver's is a free to air channels list all by...
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    30 Years Ago Today

    And I remember how beautiful the dish looked; big; modern; and how I had to yell back to the house; to see if i hit my mark; 1979. I started as a kid; watching all the channels from other lands; HBO then Showtime; I got me a moto-arm! First the movies; then ESPN; the package for ALL OF THEM was...