Primestar Question
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I assume its G28 at 89W. A buddy of mine has a neighbor with one and we hooked the dish up to his FTA box and got ABCNewsNow on 89
I assume its G28 at 89W. A buddy of mine has a neighbor with one and we hooked the dish up to his FTA box and got ABCNewsNow on 89
forerunner of Dish 500 ?
Earlier this year, one of the members reported finding some Primestar dishes with two original LNBs on them.
That was the first I'd ever heard of such a thing.
So, there must've been some users who needed to receive two satellites at once.
Earlier this year, one of the members reported finding some Primestar dishes with two original LNBs on them.
That was the first I'd ever heard of such a thing.
So, there must've been some users who needed to receive two satellites at once.
What size is the P* dish? I have a 90cm pointed at G-16 and it kicks butt. If you have a 1 meter or the rare 1.2 you really have a nice find. You can just use the vert output on the NJR lnb if your going to do G-10R Equity mux.
I would like to get my hands on one of those feed brackets to use dual NJR lnb's on my Primestar.
I don't remember all the details with P* since I was heavy into C band back then. I do remember they had 2 different encyption schemes. The final one was DC-1. I think the first one was Videocipher 2+, I recall HBO being up in Vc on ku back then.
Was Primestar partially analog? VCII+ would be an analog scrambling method... That would be interesting, especially if they manufactured a box that did both VCII+ and DC1. Of course, the DC1 would now be totally useless....
That would be me. I got some P* dishes from a cable company, I've been since told they used them for the HITS system. They use a square feed arm with an adaptor to allow you to bolt it to the dish. I think I have two arms/lnb mounts left. I have no adaptors so I cannot bolt them to a reflector. Unless I jerry-rig some sort of adaptor. Which I am considering looking into some cold,dreary Louisiana day.
Im not totally sure but I know that HBO was in VC2+ up on K1 or K2 back in the 90's. I need to dig out some of my old satellite guides or satellite retailer magazines sometime and see for sure.
If I recall right Primestar started out in Vc2+, then when DC-1 came out they switched to that because they could add more channels because of digital compression.
So many things have happened since I got into satellite many many moons ago. I used to follow all of it. I have lot of video footage from Shawn Kenny and Doug Denhart. I have some tech radio shows recorded, like North America one. And I have a big box of satellite magazines, tech manuals etc. The nice part about having this stuff is it can be used as a reference now. I wish I had the tiime to go through all of it but life changes and it don't allow me much of a chance anymore.
Ouick Edit: I just checked an OnSat magazine and Primestar started out in B-Mac. Although HBO was in Vc2+ wonder what that was for?
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That would be me. I got some P* dishes from a cable company, I've been since told they used them for the HITS system. They use a square feed arm with an adaptor to allow you to bolt it to the dish. I think I have two arms/lnb mounts left. I have no adaptors so I cannot bolt them to a reflector. Unless I jerry-rig some sort of adaptor. Which I am considering looking into some cold,dreary Louisiana day.
Interesting, HITS is on G-16 wonder why they would need a dual lnb setup?
I got them from Charter Cable. With the way they do business it wouldn't surprise me if they bought the dishes and just used one of the lnb's....
If you want to see it I'll dig one out later and take some pics for you. :up
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I got them from Charter Cable. With the way they do business it wouldn't surprise me if they bought the dishes and just used one of the lnb's....
If you want to see it I'll dig one out later and take some pics for you. :up
Some pictures would be real cool
Ya, big cable companies probably bought them on some closeout sale on Flea Bay
Here Ya go. Here's a thread I started right after I got the dishes...goodness I have come a long way in six months...
http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air-fta-discussion/87822-id-primestar-lnb.html
http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air-fta-discussion/87822-id-primestar-lnb.html
The original Primestar was an 8 channel system and according to this was VCI and VCII (see K1 KU at 85W)
Later they were DCI which is why the receivers are useless
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