minibud test

[icu1954]

i have a 39 inch dish and a b1 sat stack just laying around,and i am getting pretty bored right now,because my 6 footer is booming and doing what a 6 footer suppose to do.I want to throw this dish up and slap a conical scaler on the b1 and go to 99w and see can i pull in the network mux.I just want to receive some network news which i don't have with the 6 footer due to the sats i have it tied down to.Are the network mux transponders putting out enough power to accomplish this?

 

[Anole]

I don't pay much attention to mini-bud testing.
However, a while back, Linuxman did run some tests on a 1m Primestar.
That's the best info I can recall . . .

Linuxman on C-band with 1m round Primestar
http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-ai...-one-meter-primestar-mini-bud-experiment.html
- satellite list for 1m dish
http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-ai...mestar-mini-bud-experiment-7.html#post1509116

 

[jduffin]

Last year I ran a 1m Channel Master dish with a Geosatpro C2 LNB and a conical scalar on 99W. While I could receive the GDMX feeds acceptably, the networks were not that good. Everything had to be tweaked just perfectly for it to work. Unless you are really, really bored -- I wouldn't mess with it. As you already know, the 6 footer works well for the network feeds.