CONTEST!! Enter to Win: Titanium C2-PLL C-band Interference Filtering LNBF

[Cosmo Blatz]

It was a very hot day out in the desert. Looked to be about 2pm in the afternoon. A very smart rabbit found the maximum shade area under my Orbitron. He/she positioned itself right in the shade spot from the circular center hub. Over the course of several weeks, I attempted to give the rabbit water and food. The rabbit would have none of it! The rabbit just wanted the shade under my dish or picnic table, nothing more. We did become friends - to a degree. I suspect a coyote got it in the end.

The Orbitron dish pole in only in the ground about 2' ! That's as far down as I could get without blasting. So the concrete around the dish is spread wide but not deep. The pole has been there since about 1991. The pole is still level thanks to not much ground frost in this area.

 

[Cosmo Blatz]

Orbitron before and after painting. I used a roller with an extension handle for most of it. Used a paint brush tied to a pole to get at some of the stubborn spots.
(Those are reflections from the white feed on the ribs - not bare spots.)

 

[Cosmo Blatz]

The inside my trailer. That's the V-Box on the left with an Amiko Mini HD SE receiver next to it. A pair of JBL computer speakers (with sub) are connected to the Amiko. LG computer monitor connected to Amiko HDMI output. (Everything is on a UPS due to the unstable power out here.
O.K. I'm done! Good Luck To ALL!

 

[iccoldbeer]

This is one of my recievers.It is a low budget, low profile, low power build.I used a 1u case with 250w Ps, with 4 case fans a micro atx board a cheap 65w amd quad @ 3.9ghz, 16gig ram and 2ssd's the dual tuners are tbs and montage. I chose a pascal chip gt1030 for h.265 hevc hardware acceleration. All parts are second hand, orphaned or discount. With only 1.75 inch of height I had to mod every card. I use crazyscan and ebspro for rf scanning and fine tuning. Dvbviewer or vlc to watch.It is a work in progress the space in front left is for front usb ports and reset buttons for the internal usb wifi and the internal secondary tuner. It does 4.2.2 and 4k.. But I still want a mio for s2x, acm/vcm.

 

[raydio]

The inside my trailer. That's the V-Box on the left with an Amiko Mini HD SE receiver next to it. A pair of JBL computer speakers (with sub) are connected to the Amiko. LG computer monitor connected to Amiko HDMI output. (Everything is on a UPS due to the unstable power out here.
O.K. I'm done! Good Luck To ALL!View attachment 137478

Hey Cosmo love the orange curtains!

 

[comfortably_numb]

Hey Cosmo love the orange curtains!

Reminds me of the trailer Llewelyn Moss lived in, in the movie "No Country for Old Men"

 

[Comptech]

My 10 when I had a clear view. Right now in the basement, but ready to put it up soon. Had a brother 12 foot unimesh, but just donated it to O'Doyel. Back up soon and with wimax active here, would love to try the wimax.

 

[Comptech]

Here it is with it's bigger sibling.

 

[Comptech]

My current southern view. I am working on it, have some down, but weather is not cooperating.

 

[cee]

8 foot dish with 24" actuator.
7.5 foot dish at 97w 101w
8.5 foot dish with homemade panels original mesh panels broke at 99w 103w and 107w the 90cm at 105w 101w 97w the other 2 are directv and dish network orby tv with another 90cm at 116.8w.

 

[Cosmo Blatz]

Hey Cosmo love the orange curtains!

Yeah! I know! I know! Orange was a popular color for RV interiors back in the early 1980s. At least the appliances aren't avocado green! I'd get replacement curtains, but so far I haven't found any. In my defense, the one 'verticle window' on the trailer has a brand new brown curtain. Maybe I'm desensitized to orange since I once owned a bright orange VW pop-top camper van that had an orange & green plaid interior. Now that was a hot mess in more ways than 20 !

 

[catthepatch]

Didn't have an idea of what I was doing at the time but, got it done. circa 2010

 

[catthepatch]

Got it on the post alone!

 

[catthepatch]

The first spring, still using fence posts for Ku.

 

[catthepatch]

Have yet to try this feed horn, as I have no servo motor control.

 

[catthepatch]

Checking out the mover.

 

[catthepatch]

Had found a couple to choose from.

 

[catthepatch]

What's your angle?

 

[Brct203]

My first dish, back in 1990 in Europe. SES had just launched Astra 1A the previous year, and Sky Television had started using it with 4-5 channels. Amstrad started selling a simple receiver with a 60 cm dish. At a time where most systems cost close to $1000, I got this dish and receiver for about $250. I motorized it with a modified antenna rotator, and was able to get most Ku satellites between 45W (PanAmSat1) and 28.5 E (Kopernikus 2), with various level of quality (great on Astra, acceptable on most Eutelsat 2F series and on Kopernikus, not so great on Intelsat and PanAmsat). The LNBF covered only 10950 to 11750, with an LO of 10000. It did not allow reception of the Telecom satellites at 5W and 8W (they were using the 12500 to 12750 band)

I'll look for a picture of the receiver.

 

[Brct203]

Ok I found pictures of the matching equipment: Amstrad SRX-100 analog receiver, antenna rotator and its control box with the sticker with the handwritten satellite names

as for the box next to the receiver, it's an audio demodulator. The SRX-100 was made exclusively for Astra reception, which was using the audio sub-carriers at 7.02, 7.20, 7.38 and 7.56. So that receiver could tune those sub-carriers and nothing else. Those were typically used on other satellites if the audio was in stereo, but back then, many channels were still in mono and used the 6.60 or 6.65 MHz audio (none were using 6.20 or 6.80 in Europe). So to get the audio, I built that box that connected to the descrambler connector, took the baseband output of the receiver, demodulated the audio subcarrier and looped the audio back in as a descrambler would have done. It worked very well.

while the receiver is now totelly useless, the rotator still works. I almost brought it back to the US last month (to adapt it to 125V 60Hz and use for OTA reception), but got a bit worried that airport security would not like seeing a big blob of aluminum in my luggage. Also it is rather noisy when it rotates, so that's not so good.