Ideas for possible mini bud?

[Blindowl1234]

Ok guys I put a hot dish 90 and SG2100 in last year for my brother. I also put in a 6 foot cband dish which is a fixed dish. The yard is very, very small and he'd love more cband stuff. Right now we are limited to 87w-95W on cband. We get the full KU band no problem on the Hotdish. I'm toying with the idea of putting a Geosat C/KU lnb on the Hotdish. Any additional cband at all would be an improvement. The problem I'm wondering is how well will the KU side of a C/KU lnb work with the Hotdish, when compared to the plain old WSI Tracker 2 KU lnb that's already on it? I've used the Geosat C/Ku Lnb on my 8 footer with variable KU results. I realize the Hotdish is a totally different type of dish than the 8 footer. I may not gain enough reliable Cband to even make it work the effort. If anything works I realize only the strongest stuff might come in anyway. So I'm not sure if I should leave things as is or experiment?
Blind

 

[Lone Cloud]

If you can aim at 99 west c-band that would be a big, and consistent addition to your brother's viewing possibilities. From time to time, any satellite from 135w down may have good stuff. As far as over the Atlantic, I can't see that from here, but maybe you can. British and European stuff has been reported from time to time as being pretty good.

I figure if you can motorize and if you have a broad view of the arc, you should be able to about triple your brother's c-band viewing possibilities.

 

[SatelliteAV]

C/Ku LNBFs are designed for the FD range found on a typical prime focus dish. They have not be designed for the .5 -.7 FD range found on smaller offset dishes. The KU-band is much less forgiving in FD mismatches and will not have acceptable performance. The incorrect FD coupled with the extremely undersized 90cm dish size for C-band will result in unacceptable performance and reception on either band.

C-band on a 1.2M dish provides reception of only the strongest transponders. C-band on a 90cm will provide unreliable reception of even these strongest C-band transponders.

 

[Blindowl1234]

Thanks guys. Brian I was kind of thinking I'd screw up what we already had on KU and no sense doing that. It's works well enough as is, so I'm leaving it alone...Blind