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My main dish is a 12 ft Paraclipse Classic Polar T. I have a BSC-621-2D which came with no directions and almost no specifications and some web sites say it is for experimental use. It does not work as well as the BSC-421 (which at least has markings for f/d) location on the feedhorn and seems to work with my old Chaparral feedhorn or with the one that came with it if you can shim it to fit. The body is tapered so the fit varies from poor to worse. Comparing these two, the BSC421 works better. The ku on the BSC-621-2D varies from pretty good to not so good and the sweet spot is several actuator movements from the sweet spot for the c-band lnb.
I also have a Chaparral co-rotor II+ (not wideband) and 1992 vintage good lnbs for C & Ku band.
I also have a Chaparral feed that has both a C-band feedhorn with a Ku band feedhorn slightly offset in the polar axis direction, but in the same plane as the C-band LNB. It uses two polarators (one for each lnb). (I have not found this configuration listed on the Chaparral website)
Since I don't have anyway to control the polarator, If I simply remove the polarators, will the polarity be the same as the LNB or is there any easy way to block it to one polarity? That would at least let me check how well these four configurations compare without spending more on a polarity controller!
Does anyone know how well these configurations compare to save me a little time in narrowing down what to test? I also have two 1 meter motorized dishes that I will be comparing the ku band feeds against with a single Titanium Satellite Ku Band PLL LNBF and a dual Avenger Ku Band PLL322-2S LNBF on the other dish!
I also have a Chaparral co-rotor II+ (not wideband) and 1992 vintage good lnbs for C & Ku band.
I also have a Chaparral feed that has both a C-band feedhorn with a Ku band feedhorn slightly offset in the polar axis direction, but in the same plane as the C-band LNB. It uses two polarators (one for each lnb). (I have not found this configuration listed on the Chaparral website)
Since I don't have anyway to control the polarator, If I simply remove the polarators, will the polarity be the same as the LNB or is there any easy way to block it to one polarity? That would at least let me check how well these four configurations compare without spending more on a polarity controller!
Does anyone know how well these configurations compare to save me a little time in narrowing down what to test? I also have two 1 meter motorized dishes that I will be comparing the ku band feeds against with a single Titanium Satellite Ku Band PLL LNBF and a dual Avenger Ku Band PLL322-2S LNBF on the other dish!
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I have a corotor II on my dish (also a paraclipse) and once you dial it in the Ku is awesome. On my old unimesh 10ft, I started out with a BSC621 and later upgraded to a used corotor II, with ancient lnbs (the C band lnb was an old Macom that weighs at least 2 lbs). It was a definite improvement. Ive since updated both lnbs to PLL and its better yet.
As far as removing the polarotors goes, I would not. You can use a 6 volt lantern battery to change the polarity (a pain in the arse but for testing purposes it should be fine).
This pic shows the waveguide in the verticle position as it looks when the dish is at its zenith. You cant see it in the pic but the ku probe is straight up further back in the feedhorn. I don't have any experience with the dual polarotor type feedhorn.
I also have a 36 inch offset for Ku and the performance is similar to the bud, but drops off miserably on rainy days. Overall the bud picks up signals that the small dish cant once it is tuned to the arc. Right now I have t 12180 on 125 w at 83% quality with a tree partially blocking my line of sight. 70% on the Ku dish with clear line of sight.
As far as removing the polarotors goes, I would not. You can use a 6 volt lantern battery to change the polarity (a pain in the arse but for testing purposes it should be fine).
This pic shows the waveguide in the verticle position as it looks when the dish is at its zenith. You cant see it in the pic but the ku probe is straight up further back in the feedhorn. I don't have any experience with the dual polarotor type feedhorn.
I also have a 36 inch offset for Ku and the performance is similar to the bud, but drops off miserably on rainy days. Overall the bud picks up signals that the small dish cant once it is tuned to the arc. Right now I have t 12180 on 125 w at 83% quality with a tree partially blocking my line of sight. 70% on the Ku dish with clear line of sight.
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View attachment polar axis template.jpgView attachment polar axis template.jpgHere is my feed (pictures are not very good).I had to use a spare scaler as a spacer, because the previous owner cut the nylon thumbscrews flush with the feed plate. I am also posting a pic of the template that chaparral included with the corotorII. The smaller notch on the template goes on the Ku elbow, with the text facing away from the dish. The arrow faces up when the dish is at its zenith.
I know what you mean about the lack of specs on that lnbf,makes for a much harder install. If memory serves me right , I think I just matched the f/d ratio to and old Cband only polorotor that came with the unimesh dish.
Either polarity should give you enough voltage to run the lnbs, you will actually determine signal polarity with the polorotor.
View attachment polar axis template.jpgView attachment polar axis template.jpgHere is my feed (pictures are not very good).I had to use a spare scaler as a spacer, because the previous owner cut the nylon thumbscrews flush with the feed plate. I am also posting a pic of the template that chaparral included with the corotorII. The smaller notch on the template goes on the Ku elbow, with the text facing away from the dish. The arrow faces up when the dish is at its zenith.I know what you mean about the lack of specs on that lnbf,makes for a much harder install. If memory serves me right , I think I just matched the f/d ratio to and old Cband only polorotor that came with the unimesh dish.
Either polarity should give you enough voltage to run the lnbs, you will actually determine signal polarity with the polorotor.
Hi, old thread is the corotor still in use please, have you found anything that works better ?, ive just acquired the same dish and looking ahead on the install,
I bought one recently for another install but going to use it on the paraclipse, mines the wide banded type with a extra KU band lnb its a matched FD for my dish.
You can minimize the pain in the arse by using a double pole, double throw, spring loaded rocker switch that returns to the off position when you let go. It should have 8 terminals, with the 4 in the middle wired in an X so both sides of the switch will be the reverse of the other. That will leave 2 terminals on each end, with 2 hooking to the servo, and the other 2 to the battery.
One end of the switch will move the servo one way, the other end will move the opposite direction. You can bump the switch for fine adjustments. Sounds more complicated that it is.
It worked well with the old PR 1 also.
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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This thread is a place to discuss the 4K events that appear on channel 540. We are getting, at this point, one college football game a week. Let's hope there is more coming.
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Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
As I recall you have the Flex package. Do you sub to multisport? -02 is FS1 and -03 is ESPN. -01 is Fox so you would get that if you sub to locals.Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
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On Tuesday, I recorded the first episodes of the new season's NCIS shows on CBS (Dish provided, not OTA). The new New York series and Origins will both do Auto Skip, but the original, now season 24 does not. What's stranger, when I do a search for NCIS, Origins and New York show the current recording and the next episode it will record, but the original show only shows the current recording and some other channel showing the very first episode of season one. It makes no sense. When I set up the timers, I was able to use search for Origins and New York, but for the original, I had to scroll ahead in the guide until last Tuesday when the show was airing. Then set the timer from there. You can see its timer type is DVR where the other two are Seek. What am I missing?
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I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
As I said above, and, FWIW, I run Win11 Pro and Arch on separate 250 GB NVME drives, using F8 to select which I boot to, with a 1TB SSD for storage, accessible to both OSs and a third formatted Nvme I want to use to learn Kali. It was much faster to setup Arch than it was to strip down Windows. Windows still takes much longer to boot.
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Hard getting used to the new younger Gibbs, Mark Harmons son had the right look but I understand he didn't want the role.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
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Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?
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Starting a thread klang !
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
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One episode into season 4 that dropped today...
