Certainly looks like it Shawn, thanks. I'll try modding it up and see what happens Monday when my Twinhan arrives. I think I know where to get some free wire screening to mold across the dish. If it turns out 100% useless for FTA stuff, maybe I can play with Wi-Fi a bit.... or send the thing to Cascade
Edit: Woke up and realized; with the LNB being built for 2.4-2.5Ghz, and the Ku band being around 10.7 GHz to 18.4 GHz... this LNB (if that's an applicable term here) is probably useless. So step 1 for using this as any kind of FTA device would be to toss the existing LNB and purchase a new one... true?
And if true... yes, now I'd love to hear what the "best, most wonderful, highest gain" LNB available is. That's semi-affordable. And do any existing setups have have something compatible? I was hunting down DirecPC dishes earlier becuase (as I understand it) they can function in Ku. So.. would buying a replacement LNB for a DirecPC dish from the poor old fellow up the road give me a shot in hell of having a usable dish? I know, I know, the reflector would have to be modified, the LNB lined up just perfect, and the phase of the moon just right... lol.
TIA. Remember, this is a fun little project. I don't expect it to work better than the WineGard; I'd be happy to make it recieve anything off G10 just for "look what I did!" rights
Oooh, what do you have floating about the office? Keep in mind I'm a do-it-myself project-loving kind of guy who's into FTA. An old C/Ku lnb from a discarded BUD, or maybe certain pc components would have me happily shipping this 2.4 Ghz to you
Funny I also have this dish. I have a number of others so I have not bothered remessing it. I am sure you know BUT I will write it anyways. Get the alum screen not the fiberglass. With that said it should turn out to be a small prime focus dish so look for that kind of LNB to put on it.
Nope, it must be an older one as it only has the KU band LNB. I can say that it is picking up 121W great.. I am thinking about picking up the second one my friend has as well. It may have a different LNB.. Which getting 121 and 119 would serve one of my wife hopes, in that I would take down the small Dish Net dish.. And only have the 2 KU Dishes. See can have some level of hope? Well... Perhaps not.
So, are prime focus lnb's 'universal' Ku band (FTA compatable?) I saw a few on ebay awhile back... If Cascade doesn't get it off me (which it looks like he very well might) I'll post pictures of my mods.