Do you have a DBS LNB on your FTA setup?

[Mr Tony]

another simple poll

Do you have a DBS LNB on your FTA setup?

Yes and its a separate LNB on your FTA dish
Yes and I have the Invacom quad LNB
Yes and I have a separate dish for 119 (or any DBS dish but that is usually the main one)
No

 

[Mr Tony]

Yes and I have a separate LNB on my motorized. Yes its off by 5 degrees but I can get to 148 now (couldnt with the Invacom quad)

 

[iafirebuff]

Interesting! I had not thought to do that! I have 2 spare Dish lnb's from a Dish 500, I could strap one to my motoized, and then Diseqc 1.2 until I was peaked. But, can you use a Dish 500 lnb with a 4 way Diseqc or do you need a 22k? I have both available, but have a Diseqc switch in my setup as I am running universal lnbs.

 

[jayelem]

Yes , but I'm setting that up as we speak.

Question I plan on using Diseqc switch, does it matter what port I use ?
Does it have to be 1 and 2 or can I use any combination as long as my setting are correct in my STB ?

 

[Mr Tony]

Yes , but I'm setting that up as we speak.

Question I plan on using Diseqc switch, does it matter what port I use ?
Does it have to be 1 and 2 or can I use any combination as long as my setting are correct in my STB ?

doesnt matter. Just make sure your ports line up in the menus of the reciever

At one time I had
port 1 motorized
port 2 fixed dish to G10
port 3 was Nimiq1 (when they had the radio stations on it)

 

[Mr Tony]

Interesting! I had not thought to do that! I have 2 spare Dish lnb's from a Dish 500, I could strap one to my motoized, and then Diseqc 1.2 until I was peaked. But, can you use a Dish 500 lnb with a 4 way Diseqc or do you need a 22k? I have both available, but have a Diseqc switch in my setup as I am running universal lnbs.

you can run a separate dish if you want. I know a few members have a fixed dish at 119 for the audio & Nasa. You can use the 4x1 diseqc switch and set it the diseqc ports as such

as for the offset LNB for DBS, if you put it on the LEFT side of the KU LNB (from behind the dish) add 5 degrees or so. If on the right, then subract. When I am on 74 and I want to see what's on Nimiq2 at 82, the dish barely moves

 

[voomvoom]

I voted: "Yes and I have the Invacom quad". I actually have two of these excellent lnbf's, one on each of my 1.2m dishes. But, I rarely look at, much less use the Circular side. Usually when someone (in the WUT forum) reports an ITC find, I'll take a look (sometimes). What I like most is the dual 0.3db linear side of this lnbf. Most dual lnbf's have an 0.5db or worse.

Al

 

[iafirebuff]

THANKS ICE! For some reason I didn't think I could use a Diseqc. I will have to zip tie a Dish LNB on my motor setup and see what I get

 

[Mr Tony]

Larry
When I had a Universal LNB that is exactly how I had mine hooked up
Port 1 was the KU Band
port 2 was DBS

 

[iafirebuff]

Larry
When I had a Universal LNB that is exactly how I had mine hooked up
Port 1 was the KU Band
port 2 was DBS

GREAT! I have Port 1 - motor Port 2 - Primestar/G10 so I have 2 ports left

 

[N4ST]

No. But thinking about it.

I have a fixed 90cm on AMC4. So, if I replaced the LNB with the Invacom Quad, I could feed my DirecTV receiver with the DBS port? I could retire my DirecTV dish? The larger FTA dish would improve my rain fade margin? Are there any disadvantages to this approach? (HD is not in my near future, so I am happy pointing at the one DirecTV bird for standard programming and locals).

 

[Mr Tony]

I have a fixed 90cm on AMC4. So, if I replaced the LNB with the Invacom Quad, I could feed my DirecTV receiver with the DBS port? I could retire my DirecTV dish? The larger FTA dish would improve my rain fade margin? Are there any disadvantages to this approach? (HD is not in my near future, so I am happy pointing at the one DirecTV bird for standard programming and locals).

would work great for that purpose. The larger dish would help with rain fade

 

[Shawn95GT]

QPF Invacom flanged here. I'm very happy with it.

 

[iafirebuff]

I only had short zip ties, but put 2 and 3 together and have a Dish lnb zip tied to it 86% on 148 and scanning away

 

[MikeI]

No, I've got a trash can full of single and double lnb's too. A few extra 18" dishes somewhere. I used to watch the CBC when it was available years ago with Express Vu and a Dish Network receiver at 91 degrees. When NESN became Gol TV on the Echo birds, that's when I lost interest with the DSS FTA feeds.

 

[dfergie]

Not full time

 

[1inabillion]

I have 2 dbs lnbs with a fixed dish at 119º and a fixed dish at 148º plus a motorized Universal LNB with a LOS from 45º to 148º