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Coming in fine here at about 72Q.

yep, it's still there. RFD HD is still on 121w also.

Blind, that mount is the same as the one i have on my 12fter. Heres the bad news, you CAN'T use a square pole with a square mount! You need to be able to turn the mount, so your going to have to put the paraclipse on a 3.5" OD pole. Once thats done, make sure the tab thats right above the...

Blind, in those photo's, we just got the dish off the trailer and leaned it against the fence, so it wasn't straight up and down. The button hook (lnb) on this dish is actually pointing at the 9 o'clock position. That feedhorn is an old chapparral that is a one piece connected to the ring and no...

I'm going to order a new feedhorn and actuator for it (as soon as i figure out what i want) and just play with the C band side of things for now since it's taking the place of the Unimesh and the ribbon cable is already there. Maybe down the road, i'll give KU a try. As far as the "buttonhook"...

This thing has those steel U & J hooks about every 2" apart all over the place! The mesh seems to be really tight and over lapped in the middle. I wouldn't use it for ku anyway, i got other dishes for that :D My 8' Unimesh has an 18" mover on it, and i go from about 40W over to 131W. I...

Thanks Stogie. I read your thread :up Thats what made me tell one of them Paraclipse's to follow me home! :D It's not all that heavy, just awkward, so i'm just going to leave that 8' pole where it is. I know we can get it up there!

Thanks guys for the input. I like that "bud-picker", although i still need someone around to blame for my screw ups :D I thought maybe a dish that size might need a 36" on it and was kinda surprised to find a 24" instead. I don't have a LOS issue, and my brother-in-law and i picked up that 8'...

Well, i found 3 of these things this last weekend, so i thought i'd bring one home. It seems to be in really good shape, with just some rust on the mount that can be sanded and repainted. My questions are: 1. it came with a Von Weise v76-5 actuator, but it was all rusted and froze up, so on...

Yeah, i bet something that big would be pretty heavy. I was going to keep the 8'er anyways and maybe get one of them 10'ers to play around with. I was just wondering if the signal (from any sat) would be stronger on the 10' solid compared to the 8' mesh. Well, it's not that far away, think i...

I found this add on craigslist from a guy thats about 20 miles from me who has 2-10' fiberglass dishes, 2-6' fiberglass dishes, numerous drake, uniden, houston tracker, lnbs, motors, all kinds of stuff for next to nothing. Does anyone know what kind of dishes these might be and would the 10'...

No problem, it did give me something else to tinker with, but i'm not gonna climb the 12' ladder and take that plate in and out everytime i want to watch tv.

I'm in Indiana, and right now i'm using a Chaparral MicroPak 3G feedhorn and lnb on the 8'er. I tried the plate one day and picked up all kinds of channels on the circular sats with great signal quality, but lost all most everything on the linear sats except for the REALLY strong ones, so i took...

My 8' dish with the pansat only gets a 31-34% on that transponder. Picture comes in great. DW-TV on the same sat is hitting 73-77%.

I've got a couple of those "1 side dc pass" splitters out in the barn. I knew i would have to turn the motor (superjack) off on the pansat when i put it in the garage. Just wasn't sure about splitting the signal. Thanks Ice!

would the 2 way splitter just be power pass on one side? (the side going to the house)

When ever i decide which hd receiver i want to get, i'll have an extra pansat i'd like to put out in the garage. Can i use a 5-2300 mhz splitter to run a cable over to the garage from the 8'er? I don't care to move the dish, i can just move it in the house and watch whats on the sat i'm aimed at...

GREAT NEWS! Went out this morning and studied the dish, and found that the mount on the ring wasn't flush with the mount on the pole when it's parked at the true south sat! It was about an 1/8" off! I lined it all up and re-aimed the dish, went clear east, got a channel, went clear west, got a...

ok, so your saying to loosen the bolts on the pole and turn the whole dish a hair to the west, then use the v-box to get back to the true south sat, right? i'll give it a try when it gets daylight.

Well i'm getting ready for work now, so i don't have time to run out & take pictures (maybe tomorrow), but i'm measuring on the dish ring itself, and also on the plate on the back of the dish for the declination, (both read 46 on the inclinometer) when the dish is true south. On the pole mount...

I know i've read about this on here, but i can't get my 8'er to track the arc! I'm at 40N lat & 86W long, and can't pickup anything East of 61W without moving the elevation on the dish. If i move the elevation to get the "east" sats, i lose all the sats from 72W to 129W including my TS sat at...

Yeah they dropped to zero (and it had to be on the stations i want to watch!), and i still didn't pick up 40.5w. I knew i couldn't have the best of both worlds. Thanks for the info

I'm using a Chaparral MicroPak 3G lnb on the 8'er, and just to tinker somemore, i wanted to try to pickup NSS-806@40.5W, which is a circular sat. I inserted the di-electric plate into the feedhorn, and not only did that not work, but i lost half of the channels on the linear sats. What did i do...

I know i can slave my Uniden & CS together, but to get c band, i have to go into the menu on the CS and change the lnb freq on the sat i want to watch. So i'm thinking of just leaving the CS alone for just the KU bands and getting another setup for just the C band. Heres what i'd like to...

Thanks for the comments and the slaving advice. So far i've only scanned my ts sat to make sure i was pointed that way, and picked up 14 channels at around 87 Q. still want to do a little more tweeking this weekend if it don't rain anymore. Funny you should mention room for more dishes, i told...