Please post pictures of your setups so we can see them
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If you can get a Birdview by all means go for it. These are great dishes. I have one I got from a friend at work, but I don't have it up yet. Anyway, it's a very nice dish and built like a tank. They tell me these work great on both C and Ku band and since they are solid aluminum as opposed to mesh they work fantastic for Ku.
You probably are going to have to do conversions to it to make it work for FTA, and it might cost more than $50, but based on what I've heard it's likely going to be well worth it. One thing you'll need to do is get a new feedhorn and LNBs. My understanding is that the original birview LNB uses an odd LO frequency and produces an IF output that's only good for the old birdview recievers. I may be wrong about that but you'll likely want to replace the feedhorn anyway with one that has both C and Ku capabilities like a Corotor II or something similar. There are a couple of ways you can do this. One is by having the hole in the original scaler ring machine out a tiny bit so that a newer feedhorn will fit into it. Then drilling some holes through the side of the ring for set screws to hold it. This might be bit more complicated and involve a bit of engineering on your part. The easiest way is to simply purchase an adapter plate. Skyvision sells such a plate.
Also, you'll need a magnetic wheel and reed switch conversion kit for the motor if you plan on using it with any other reciever than the original one. This kit can also be purchased from Skyvision. Basically, it's just a magnetic wheel and a reed switch. It's overpriced and you could probably make one yourself cheaper, but the hard part would be finding the magnetic wheel.
You probably are going to have to do conversions to it to make it work for FTA, and it might cost more than $50, but based on what I've heard it's likely going to be well worth it. One thing you'll need to do is get a new feedhorn and LNBs. My understanding is that the original birview LNB uses an odd LO frequency and produces an IF output that's only good for the old birdview recievers. I may be wrong about that but you'll likely want to replace the feedhorn anyway with one that has both C and Ku capabilities like a Corotor II or something similar. There are a couple of ways you can do this. One is by having the hole in the original scaler ring machine out a tiny bit so that a newer feedhorn will fit into it. Then drilling some holes through the side of the ring for set screws to hold it. This might be bit more complicated and involve a bit of engineering on your part. The easiest way is to simply purchase an adapter plate. Skyvision sells such a plate.
Also, you'll need a magnetic wheel and reed switch conversion kit for the motor if you plan on using it with any other reciever than the original one. This kit can also be purchased from Skyvision. Basically, it's just a magnetic wheel and a reed switch. It's overpriced and you could probably make one yourself cheaper, but the hard part would be finding the magnetic wheel.
My new setup
I thought it was finally time to post pics of my setup. I got the LNB from pete, and the motor and dish from Sadoun. Fortec 90cm dish with U-bolt mount, STAB HH90 motor, and invacom QPH-031 circular/linear combo LNB. generic diseqc switch (which needs to be weatherproofed... a job for duct tape.)
The other dishes are a dish 500 pointed at 110/119 and a dish 300 pointed at 61.5 for the voom pack.
the roof is slanted in such a way that the stabilizer arms would not stabilize, so I put a brick underneath one of them. eventually I will have to go back up there and put another brick under the other one. but the brick that is there now solved a slight lean to the left. that brick was the difference between a 45 and a 90 quality reading on my true south sat (105)
the original mount that the white pole is in came from my older winegard 30". the pole from the winegard was too short for this larger dish, so I had to modify the fortec pole by drilling an extra hole.
I thought it was finally time to post pics of my setup. I got the LNB from pete, and the motor and dish from Sadoun. Fortec 90cm dish with U-bolt mount, STAB HH90 motor, and invacom QPH-031 circular/linear combo LNB. generic diseqc switch (which needs to be weatherproofed... a job for duct tape.)
The other dishes are a dish 500 pointed at 110/119 and a dish 300 pointed at 61.5 for the voom pack.
the roof is slanted in such a way that the stabilizer arms would not stabilize, so I put a brick underneath one of them. eventually I will have to go back up there and put another brick under the other one. but the brick that is there now solved a slight lean to the left. that brick was the difference between a 45 and a 90 quality reading on my true south sat (105)
the original mount that the white pole is in came from my older winegard 30". the pole from the winegard was too short for this larger dish, so I had to modify the fortec pole by drilling an extra hole.
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Here is my setup. Only one 36" dish on a custom made mount, on the roof of my garage. The mount is strong and plumb, I don't think the wind will affect it, even at 12 feet.
Pics quality is bad, it was too late...
Pics quality is bad, it was too late...
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