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I'll pay the shipping plus throw in a case of fine maritime brew.

I now have a very nice 1.2m dish in my posession, many thanks to Ftamart! Had a nice visit with him, am glad the timing worked out and he was home while I was out that way.
It's still on the truck, been too busy here to unload it yet. Might have some time over the next couple of days as rain is in the forcast and I can take a bit of a break from work.
-C.

Cham said:

I now have a very nice 1.2m dish in my posession,

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Set up the dish today on 103W, works great. Used one of Brian's PLL LNBFs I had kicking around. Just used a tie-strap to hold the LNBF in the original LNB holder. Might put the original LNB & feed horn back eventually but would be nice to have both polarities.

Had some trouble though getting a signal at the receiver though. Used an Ecoda 22KHz switch to split off port 4 of the diseqc switch so I could use one cable between the 120cm and 90cm dishes located right next to each other. Could not get ANY S2 signals through the 22KHz switch, even tried another one I thought was working. Can get the beach cams on 103 but not the horizontal polarity off-skew S2 signals I was looking for. Sat finder shows an excellent signal, and I get 75%+ on the uHD on these signals when going direct from the diseqc to the LNBF... but no S2 signal when the 22KHz is added between. Also by-passed the diseqc switch to see if it had an affect, no noticeable difference, no S2 signals. Even tried switching the ports around on the 22KHz switch, no difference there either, 97w works either way but there are no S2 TPs (that I have in my list for that sat).
Has anyone else experienced this sort of issue with 22KHz switches?

I use another one on my big dish to separate the C and Ku LNBs, I checked it again and it works fine on 103 using the Azbox. Too dark now but might try swapping that switch to the 120cm/90cm dish wiring and see what happens in the am...

I should add, I compared the GeosatPro SP1PLL to the factory feedhorn/Norsat 7000 LNB combo and found a gain of about 10%Q on the horizontal feeds on AMC-1 using the LNBF. I was somewhat suprised... expected a matched feedhorn would perform better. Says a lot about the new PLL LNBFs too!
-C.