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Picked up another Dish tonight

Gotta love ebay. Thanks to a heads up from Tron I got what looks to be a Starband Dish / LNB as well as a couple DSS LNBs.

The dish itself appears to be identical to my Primestar dish. I'm going to replace the dish itself on my P* with this one since it is in perfect shape.

The mount on this dish is different than my P* in that it has an additional bracket which allows the whole dish to skew. Since my setup is motorized and I want to keep the weight down on the SG2100, I'll retain my current mount and set this one aside in case I decide to setup the old dish as a fixed one.

The real bonus here is the DSS LNB bracket. This is just too cool. This looks a bit more professional than my hose clamp does and it will eliminate any blockage of the primary LNB's view of the dish.

I now have an original Channel master feedhorn! Is this a C120 flange? Will this be usefull at all for a baby c-band setup? Would it be worthwhile to get a flanged LNB vs the 'strapped on' universal?

While I'm sure the transmitter LNB is absolutely useless to me, I'm curious how well the 0.8 downlink LNB performs :p

This dish came complete with the whole Roof / Wall mount which included the feet this time. My original dish came sans feet. I'm pretty stoked with my $1 ebay purchase! Thanks again Tron!
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Shawn95GT said:
I'm going to swap out the feed arms for fun and see how that 0.8 NF LNB works out. For all I know it won't even work for video... one way to find out :cool: .
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I've used a 0.8 DPC lnb previously for Ku; works okay! Nothing compared to a "real" .6 or lower, but for a fixed position dish setup, tuned right, it could work.
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I just bought a Channel Master feedhorn to match my Channel Master dish that uses a C120 flange. Invacom makes an excellent LNB with a C120 flange. However, according to the feedhorn instructions you can only mount the LNB to either receive H or V transponders. It does not have a motor or is voltage controlled. The biggest reason why I bought it was to get the feed support bracket that I needed to go with my dish.

Shawn, let us know how the dish performs when you get it. I DSS LNB bracket is really cool.
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PopcornNMore said:
I just bought a Channel Master feedhorn to match my Channel Master dish that uses a C120 flange. Invacom makes an excellent LNB with a C120 flange. However, according to the feedhorn instructions you can only mount the LNB to either receive H or V transponders. It does not have a motor or is voltage controlled. The biggest reason why I bought it was to get the feed support bracket that I needed to go with my dish.

Shawn, let us know how the dish performs when you get it. I DSS LNB bracket is really cool.
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I think in my case I'd be ok with a SNF-031 since this dish was a transmit / recieve dish. To do so I beleive it uses V for transmit and H for recieve.

On a complete side note... I was googling like mad trying to learn about waveguide stuff and came across a pretty good video talking about how to install a VSAT setup. It'd be pretty trivial to make something similar for a motorized FTA setup.

http://www.groundcontrol.com/galileo/Galileo-Training.wmv
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" Will this be usefull at all for a baby c-band setup?"

No. C band waveguides are much larger as the wavelengths are larger. You can get feedhorns for BUDs that are both C and Ku, but on those the waveguides that attach to the C band LNBs are much larger in diameter and the feedhorn itself is much larger in diameter. A C120 flange waveguide is much too small for C band wavelengths to pass through.

" I'm curious how well the 0.8 downlink LNB performs"

You may be surprised. I've seen Norsat LNBs rated at .8 that outperformed LNBs rated much lower. Basically there's alot more to LNB performance than just noise figure. LO stability is also one very important characteristic that affects an LNBs performance. Also some manufacturers may be a bit optimistic in the way they rate their LNBs in terms of noise figure because they know that often times this is the first thing many people look at when purchasing an LNB. However, one thing about your LNB is that it may be the type of LNB that only recieves one polarity. These type are commonly used on BUDs and generally attach to the feedhorn assembly through a WR-75 flange. When used on BUDs this way, the feedhorn usually somehow sends the right polarity to the LNB. It usually either does this by using a polar servo to rotate a probe in the feedhorn or it will have 2 WR-75 flanges to which you will attach 2 of these type LNBs and there will be polarizing filters in the feedhorn which will separate and direct the 2 different polarities to the 2 different LNBs. In the later situation you would then use a switch to swtich between the 2 LNBs in order to switch polarity.


"I just bought a Channel Master feedhorn to match my Channel Master dish that uses a C120 flange. Invacom makes an excellent LNB with a C120 flange. However, according to the feedhorn instructions you can only mount the LNB to either receive H or V transponders. It does not have a motor or is voltage controlled. The biggest reason why I bought it was to get the feed support bracket that I needed to go with my dish."

PopcornNMore, your feedhorn probably is 2 separate parts. There is likely the feedhorn itslef which has the round C120 flange and a piece that attaches directly to the feedhorn in between the LNB and the feedhorn itslef. This piece probably has a rectangular opening and is a polarising filter. The polarity it filters is changed by oriented this piece and it's rectangular opeing either horizontally or vertically. Anyway, if you omit his piece and attach a C120 voltage switch polarity LNB directly to the feedhorn itself you will be able to recieve either polarity.
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Thanks Stefan, I was wondering how I'd go about using a switched polarity LNB with one of those Channel Master feedhorns!

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FIFA World Cup of Horrors

Mexico takes on South Africa to open the World Cup Final (it is called the Final... this just isn't the World Cup Final... Final). The tournament has been plagued with rife malfeasance as FIFA has been committing all sorts of fraud with the ticket sales. Hotel rooms have gone unfilled as the prices to attend a game and stay somewhere are through the roof. I swear this is impacting Mansfield, OH hotel rates which are higher than average for the Indycar race. And there is a broadening VAR presence which will ruin things as nothing worse now when scoring a goal and knowing you can't quite celebrate yet as they check to see if a player was offside by a pixel a half-hour ago.

The Group Stage used to mean something, but now 32 of the 48... yeah, 48 teams are going to the Knockout Round. Getting into the Knockout Round used to be a big deal, even for the US. But now... if you don't lose all of your group stage games, you get to move on. Oi! And this is avoiding all the political stuff!

I have never been so unexcited for a World Cup before. Every game used to matter. But FIFA be darned if they don't try to squeeze out every dime they can out of the players, refs, and fans.
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Siri AI Is Apple’s Smarter, More Personal Voice Assistant!

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NCAA Softball

Anybody been following the Tournaments? I've been watching all weekend on the various ESPN's...
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Not a good inning… Kavan coming on could be the nail.
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Better team won tonight…
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Well crap. That wasn't fun. Oh well on to the CFL opener on cbs sportsnet.
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"In the end, there can be only one" - Duncan MacCleod of the clan MacCleod
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Last weekend I got in on a MLB game top of the 8th 1-1, first thought was extra innings... :D and it actually went extra after the 9th.
Catching a little of the AUSL, something to watch when I can't get into anything else.
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Auto Racing 2026

New thread or keep this one?

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Caught up to the 500... err... k in St. Louis. What a race! Andretti Motorsport were doing very well with Ericsson and Kirkwood, meanwhile Power was moving up the grid. Veekay started cautiously. He was working the tires just right, becoming more lethal later in the stint. Rasmussen was racing likewise, not nearly as insane as he has in the past. Palou was leading the race, in a shocker to all. Caio Collet was having a wonderful ride, making Ferucci potentially sweat a bit. Rain came, rain went, rain came, rain went. Generally mild sprinkles, but enough to pause racing on an oval.

Palou would kind of send Siegel into the wall. Siegel really didn't do much wrong. As he noted, you have to turn at some point. Palou had acres of room below and Siegel might have had his ticket out of Indycar stamped. Dixon was doing the fuel thing and got busted twice by yellows, not pitting before the flag came out. Then the most critical happened... Palou ran out of gas on pit lane, effectively giving Newgarden the race lead and win. Newgarden had a very early pit, so he was able to slide in, get service and go. Meanwhile, everyone else was confused and stuck behind Palou for a bit. Once people figured what was happening, Newgarden had a major advantage of several seconds. Newgarden wouldn't look back and when it went green again, he'd hold the lead for the win.

Massive credit to Juncos Hollinger who bested Penske in getting Veekay out before Malukas in a transition that was oddly bizarre. I haven't had time to check, but I'm wondering if Veekay was about to run out of fuel or cut a tire. He was charging late in a stint, got up to fifth, and then tailed back for a few laps to 10th or 11th. It looked like it was over. Went into the pits, and after the pitting sequence was over, Veekay was well inside the top ten again. It was weird. And he charged, getting up to fourth. He made a late move on Rasmussen, but Rasmussen held his position with some great driving. In fact, there was a ton of incredible racing passing, not passing all race long. Veekay would finish 4th. A podium would have been awesome, but it is a great outcome for a guy who hopefully will get a break with a big team. We saw what Veekay could do with a Honda last season with fuel save, imagine replacing Simpson on Ganassi and having speed to go with fuel saving. His 6th at Indy and 4th at St. Louis get him up to 13th in the points standings and only 5 points outside of the top 10.

Ericsson finished second, resigned to finishing behind the current best in the world guy on a short oval. Rasmussen got the final step on the podium, a nice rebound to what has been an otherwise bad year for him, and a good reward to ECR who just extended his contract.
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They raced USAC cars at Daytona once. Once! People died. Aj Foyt said 'f this', and left after the first go around. AJ freaking Foyt thought it was crazy! And cars weren't nearly as fast as they are now.

I think they tried Talladega once too.
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LeMans qualifying on going. WEC has d9ne a great job expanding the automotive company entries. Even without Porsche, a large nunber of manufacturers.
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Channels on DIRECTV Satellite and not on Stream/Internet

So...DirecTV advertises the Choice package with 95+ bonus channels for Satellite customers. You don't want 90+ of the 95...

Excluding PPV, premium networks, infomercial, shopping, religion, and non-English programming, there are 7 channels on satellite that are not on streaming:
NFL Network, MavTV, FE TV, Free Speech, NASA, INSP, and Pursuit. I'm pretty sure a couple of those are public interest that they have to carry to meet an FCC quota on satellite.

I hope they get called out for this advertising because that is ridiculous. One big network, NFL, will probably get added to streaming when their next agreement comes up, and the rest are likely very low viewership.

What about streaming, what do you get extra with the Choice package that isn't on Satellite:
Two stations - one of which is an internet TV - Fox Weather, and Heros & Icons (a diginet). Nothing special here to look at either.

If they cleaned up a couple of their agreements, added a few public interest stations to streaming, they could probably have their lineups match. It's close now, if you take out all the garbage on satellite that they earn money on. If they can sell infomercials on satellite, why can't they on streaming, seems like a miss. A bigger miss, including those stations in the "bonus channels just for satellite customers." Pretty sad marketing right there.

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Attached is a comparison sheet of satellite vs streaming for the three main packages if anyone is interested.

MOD EDIT: See Post #3 for an up to date list of what channels are available on sat but not on streaming/internet, see Post #21 for an up to date list of what's available in the app for streaming customers, but not for sat customers.
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107 LIVE4K3 and 108 LIVE4K4 are now testing on the stream server
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107 LIVE4K3 and 108 LIVE4K4 are now testing on the stream server
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Happy to see that DTV Stream will finally line up fully with the DTV Satellite 4K content and Channel Guide.
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They turned them on today !
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I see in the 4K Channels Guide that the Telemundo WC games will be airing in 4K. I believe this is the first time ever we will have Spanish-language broadcasts in 4K (in the USA). Did not happen during the last World Cup in Qatar 2022.
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4K telemundo working !

406 still SD here in Norfolk Va 📡
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Song Name Game Part 3!

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....
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Apple Intelligence: Siri AI Revolutionizes Your Devices! #shorts

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Tech News Weekly 441

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Home Theater Audio: JBL SCL-6 Speaker Custom Build! #shorts

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Problem when I switch from Bonus View channels back to regular Dish channels

Hello everyone, new guy here. I'm trying to solve problem I'm having with Dish bonus view channels. When I'm watching the bonus view channels then I switch back to regular dish channels, after few minutes the screen flips to black and after 30 seconds flips back to regular channels and continues to flip back and forth until I turn off TV. After I wait 30 minutes and turn back on , I can use regular channels again. So, its after I switch from bonus view channels to regular dish channels the problem starts. Been trying to fix this for a month, but no luck
Here what I've done.
i contacted Dish support and they sent me a new Joey3, but no help. Switched to a different HDMI input on TV, no help. Used different HDMI cable , no help. Used different electrical wall plug, no help.
Finally got a Dish tech to check it. He ran all systems check and was OK. Finally he brought in a small TV and plugged in the HDMI out from the Joey to the small TV. He could not get the problem to occur on his small TV, so the new Joey was working OK. So, then the problem must be myTV. He made some phone calls and came back with the answer that there must be a problem with the analog to digital switch in my TV. Has anyone ever heard of a problem like this, or is it time to be looking for a new TV? My tv LG OLED65C8PUA. TV has been trouble free til now. Thanks
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