Hi,
I've been playing with my system for about a year now and am considering an upgrade of sorts to something that will be a) more reliable and b) greater reception.
Right now I have a:
Pansat 3500sd
A 1meter dish
A HH90 motor
Some cheap LNB (2 of them due to a shipping error actually).
My HH90 is on the fritz--changes channels successfully about 30% of the time, then goes to 'Reference Position' and then (sometimes) goes back to where it should be, then hunt and pecks once it gets a feed. I'm a tad annoyed with it and want to replace it.
But then I thought about this set up. A new 120cm dish with a ?? motor (?) and then using my existing 1 meter dish as a fixed dish pointed toward G3 or IA5 (where the bulk of the stuff we watch is located). The Pansat seems to be working fine (though the wife, who specifically forbade me from ordering a TIVO like receiver when we bought this, is now yelling at me all the time "why can't you rewind?").
I figured this might be better than just swapping out the motor, but was wondering what people would consider to be the 'next step' in this hobby?
I've been playing with my system for about a year now and am considering an upgrade of sorts to something that will be a) more reliable and b) greater reception.
Right now I have a:
Pansat 3500sd
A 1meter dish
A HH90 motor
Some cheap LNB (2 of them due to a shipping error actually).
My HH90 is on the fritz--changes channels successfully about 30% of the time, then goes to 'Reference Position' and then (sometimes) goes back to where it should be, then hunt and pecks once it gets a feed. I'm a tad annoyed with it and want to replace it.
But then I thought about this set up. A new 120cm dish with a ?? motor (?) and then using my existing 1 meter dish as a fixed dish pointed toward G3 or IA5 (where the bulk of the stuff we watch is located). The Pansat seems to be working fine (though the wife, who specifically forbade me from ordering a TIVO like receiver when we bought this, is now yelling at me all the time "why can't you rewind?").
I figured this might be better than just swapping out the motor, but was wondering what people would consider to be the 'next step' in this hobby?