The city/county/HOA may limit them, but they are available anywhere. In hurricane alley you will need tie-downs, and you will need a foundation to keep it out of the water.
pics of the dish farm...post yours too :)
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No steekin HOA around here! Things are pretty lax around here. I'll be testing just how lax once I get the big dishes up..
But yes, tie downs and probably stilts for my back yard! It can get up to a foot deep in my back yard and very often does. I just can't imagine how to get something like that back there. Oh well. It was a nice dream while it lasted.. Sigh...
Just don't let your dish fall over in a wind storm and strike your neighbour's trailer (even if his trailer is parked on my land!). Neighbours seem not to like that. And that tends to break your LNB bracket and dent your dish too.
No steekin HOA around here! Things are pretty lax around here. I'll be testing just how lax once I get the big dishes up..
........ I just can't imagine how to get something like that back there. Oh well. It was a nice dream while it lasted.. Sigh...
A friend with a helicopter would be a nice way to get one of those in the back yard.......Just make sure the helicopter is painted black to scare your creepy neighbor:neener
I think this explains why the pizza dish people are getting rich. This could be an ad for pizza.
Cool stuff there Stogie!
After looking at the photo I was wondering if your signature is up to date?
After looking at the photo I was wondering if your signature is up to date?
Cool stuff there Stogie!
After looking at the photo I was wondering if your signature is up to date?
Sure is. Everything in my sig is in that picture. Just in a different order. Picture order is, right line of dishes first: 1.2 Prodelin,8' BV, 1.8 Prodelin,10' CM, 12' Paraclipse. On the left of the pic in the back is the 1m P* pointed at 125.
Oh, and thanks.
Very nice! Looking that line over gives one a sense of satisfaction in a job well done. Time for a Smoke!
Stogie, nice line-up! Lots of additions since I last visited ... Starting to look like a Northshore SETI site!
3D video from that angle would be really cool. I have the gear!
... Starting to look like a Northshore SETI site!3D video from that angle would be really cool. I have the gear!
Iceberg, are you getting NBC East & Cent. (11880H/30000SR) with your combo dish at 103? I live just SE of you and can't for the life of me bring in the 11880 transponder. I got the ones on 11760 with good signal, and of everything on the (V) transponders. Got the -26 skew, but can't lock 11880. If you get it, how strong is your signal on that transponder and what did you do to lock it. I'm using 90cm GEOSAT pro dish with the new PLL LNBF from DMS. Thanks, Chad
It's might be not much to see on 3 pictures from Albuquerque, NM USA!
It's my first time trying to post picture so keep my finger crossed.
It did work!!
The first picture my tipical 90 CM dish, and it's a good work horse!! The second picture is my 10 meter vertical ham radio antenna! And 3rd picture show what New Mexico looks like!!
It's my first time trying to post picture so keep my finger crossed.
It did work!!
The first picture my tipical 90 CM dish, and it's a good work horse!! The second picture is my 10 meter vertical ham radio antenna! And 3rd picture show what New Mexico looks like!!
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Regarding your second pic, if you raise the vertical to about 5-feet high, then connect four 8' 3" wires to the base of the vertical, spaced around the vertical at 90-degree separation (elevated radial ground system), you'll find it works much better.
Current setup unless a larger dish comes along to replace the C band dishes. Will get better pictures when I have time to next weekend hopefully
From left.... 7.5 Winegard C only for 58W
7.5 Winegard C/ku 58W to 127W
Under middle winegard.... Primestar 85E dual lnb pointed at 91 and 97W
Primestar 74E at 103W skewed for NBC
Right top.... 1.2M dish at 99W for feeds
Right bottom.... 30" dish on motor, receives 61W to 125W, anything lower then 61 blocked by houses
Some recent shots of the dish garden, all are motorized but I have listed the sat they are aimed at.
left to right:
8.5' Birdview solid (99W)
Birdview Spoon (93W)
180 cm Prodelin offset (93W)
7.5' Unimesh mesh (58W)
6' 6-panel solid (91W)
90 cm 3ABN offset (123W)
12' Unimesh mesh (looking for Northern Lights)
10' Perfect Ten Mesh (105W)
Dish 1000 100/119/129 (for ATSC thru Dish receiver)
90 cm Fortec Star (72W) on back porch, not in pic
left to right:
8.5' Birdview solid (99W)
Birdview Spoon (93W)
180 cm Prodelin offset (93W)
7.5' Unimesh mesh (58W)
6' 6-panel solid (91W)
90 cm 3ABN offset (123W)
12' Unimesh mesh (looking for Northern Lights)
10' Perfect Ten Mesh (105W)
Dish 1000 100/119/129 (for ATSC thru Dish receiver)
90 cm Fortec Star (72W) on back porch, not in pic
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Nice pics everyone. Any chance we can get some more pictures of everyone's switches and splitters, etc?
Here are mine. I would put a pic of my dish, but right now I only have one which is a re-purposed Dish Network 500 that doesn't really pick anything up. I hope to order a 90CM dish later this week and get started. But anyways, here is my current wiring setup. One powered VHF/UHF antenna, one powered UHF antenna, cable feed and feed from my one excuse for a satellite.
(sorry for the duplicate picture, I didn't realize that the one wasn't rotated properly)
Here are mine. I would put a pic of my dish, but right now I only have one which is a re-purposed Dish Network 500 that doesn't really pick anything up. I hope to order a 90CM dish later this week and get started. But anyways, here is my current wiring setup. One powered VHF/UHF antenna, one powered UHF antenna, cable feed and feed from my one excuse for a satellite.
(sorry for the duplicate picture, I didn't realize that the one wasn't rotated properly)
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