KU band on a 24" dish

[Mr Tony]

Since I had the mount already on the deck and was cleaning the "satellite room", I found my 24" dish. I figured "Well, we've tried a 30, a 36, a 18 and a 48...how bout a 24"?

I hooked the 24 up and used the DMSI 0.5 I had (it slipped right into the bracket.) I had this dish when I had ExpressVu so it hasn't been used in a while. Aimed at IA6 (true south) and fired it up. Had some good signals and some not so good. Here is what I have between the 24" and the 30"

First number is the 24", second is the 30"
Bloomberg 56 73
Fox News Feed 32 59
Other feed 0 75
CBS News 60 60
CBS Feeds 30 45
ABCNewsNow 60 75
ABCSat 0 57
Other Feed 45 54
Lord/Taylor 60 75
Doc Scott 29 47
IRS Net 10 75

What was really weird is I used the Lord/Taylor as my test one and I has a 60 right away, but I also got a 60 on CCTV (G3) at the same time. No matter how far I moved east to tune in IA6, I could get G3 unil the end, when it disappeared. Most of the feeds came in fine, but it looks like a couple of them almost need a 30" to get a decent signal

I will try some other satellites but I have to retrofit a holder on there so I can skew it....but I will try G11, IA6, G3 and IA5 in the next couple days as these have almost a 0 skew

 

[Rick in MD]

Very cool, interesting, how low you can go and still get signal and quality, great job..

 

[rkrenicki]

Hey ice, where did you get that LNB (I dont see it on DMSIs website)? I am thinking about a 4-lnb solution on my Phase 2, and thoght I could actually put a DSS shaped FSS LNB in the 101 slot.. even with the smaller dish, it would still pick up something at least, instead of wasting an lnb slot

 

[PSB]

I think this is the LNBF in question......

http://dmsiusa.com/images/asc322b.jpg

 

[rkrenicki]

Thats the one.. hmm, Pete, how much would that go for? pm me with the price if you would rather that then post in here

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[rkrenicki]

nevermind, found it on your website

 

[Alec]

Ive got better than 100' to my dish, but I can walk to it. It realy seams though to think of u guys getting up on the roof !!!!.............but I have to weed wack the weeds !!!!

 

[Mr Tony]

ulta....the picture Pete posted is the LNB I'm using.. Its a .5
unfortunately, the one output doesnt work (user stupidity)

 

[Mr Tony]

Ive got better than 100' to my dish, but I can walk to it. It realy seams though to think of u guys getting up on the roof !!!!.............but I have to weed wack the weeds !!!!

its not too hard to get to my roof...put the 6 foot stepladder on the deck, climb up and there is the roof

(but I am starting to migrate some of the dishes to the deck railing for easy access