24" Comm Dish

[Mechanicaljourneyman]

Hello, I need a little help. I have gotten a 24" Comm Dish setup for a single lnb. (like the dish 300). I have a Dish 500 setup with the twin gun. I would like to put the twin lnb on the 24" dish mount. What do I need to do? Do I just need to screw it on? or do I need cut the length of the arm. Someone has done this before me. Any help would be great. Thanks...

 

[volkodav]

did you check if there is even skew on that dish?

 

[Mechanicaljourneyman]

Yep, no scew. Will remount on a dish 500 arm/mount will I need to extend the arm?

 

[volkodav]

to make both 119 and 110 work i would say you need something with skew on it because those dishes designed for signal satellite pointing, unless some one came up with some kind of bracket

 

[Jim5506]

If your signal is weak enough on 110 and 119 that you cannot use a Dish500, you need two seperate dishes, not a make-shift dual lnb.

The 24 inch dish is not focused properly for 2 lnb's, it has a single focal point, whereas the Dish500 is designed with the horizonal focus longer than the vertical focus so the two lnb's are preferred.

You'll probably not get any stronger signal with 2 lnb's on the 24 incher than you did with the Dish500.