I had I six footer I assembled inside the house this winter and set it up during a blizzard.
Been missing PBS World since it was re-encrypted on 101W C. Also have a Corotor II that came with an 8 foot KTI I got recently. And now that I'm up to three C2PLLs on my 10 footer, I decided to try for PBS on the 6 footer at 125W Ku.
You will also see in a minute the reason for this mount:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/npgm.351452/
So do I buy a 1.2m dish? Expensive, so I need to try for PBS with what I already have.
So I removed the servo from the Corotor II. I have nothing to operate the servo with. I like just turning the knob to adjust skew instead of the whole unit, Nice smooth and easy. I will only need vertical from this point on to get the PBS Channels on 12180 V 30000 anyway. I know, a waste of a Corotor II for Ku only, vertical only, but its what I have.
I started by checking out 116.8 on a C2PLL. Now that I had my bearings I slapped on the Corotor and searched 116.8 for C and Ku band channels. In an earlier post about the Corotor II lucky find, Titanium basically said the LNBs on the unit may be too old to work properly.
The old C band LNB was no where near as good as the Titanium unit.
Now the reason for the portable mount. After I locked 116.8 I noticed I could go no further west as i would have been pointing into trees. No problem, cut some more brush and move the whole unit east.
You can see cut branches in the picture above.
So finally I worked my way over to 125W, sorry that tube TVs don't photograph well.
Yes I have an aiming Tube TV, its pretty small and not a big deal if it gets muddy etc...
After I tweaked azimuth and elevation, I adjusted the skew dial and POW, steady, rock solid 72%!
I'm not sure how bad this old Ku LNB will drift, I have an SL1P on order from Wallyhts now that I know I have a workable location.
(KE4EST, how does the signal look? Comparable to your 1.2m?) This is the highest my MicroHD reads.
Some people get in the 80% range. Even on my 10 footer with a strong transponder, Low 70s.
Now you will see another reason that I need to be sure of location before I dig and make a dish permanent, and take the portable route first.
See the little bit of clearing I had to work with? The feedhorn cover is a little crooked but can you see the threading of the needle? You can also see why actuators do me no good.
An actuator for a 3 maybe 4 degree sweep of the arc? NOT. Multiple dishes/lnbfs do the trick for me.
So I have this dish as single output vertical, and in a previous thread I have a converted DISH, single output pointing to the horizontal CCTV mux on 95W Ku.
My plan is to put PBS on a vertical port on one of my 4x8 powered Zinwells, and the CCTV DISH on a horizontal.
Now both single output LNBFs can be shared to all receivers throughout the house.
Sometimes I envy you guys that can just plant a dish anywhere. For me its not that easy.
But I do enjoy the woods.
Been missing PBS World since it was re-encrypted on 101W C. Also have a Corotor II that came with an 8 foot KTI I got recently. And now that I'm up to three C2PLLs on my 10 footer, I decided to try for PBS on the 6 footer at 125W Ku.
You will also see in a minute the reason for this mount:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/npgm.351452/
So do I buy a 1.2m dish? Expensive, so I need to try for PBS with what I already have.
So I removed the servo from the Corotor II. I have nothing to operate the servo with. I like just turning the knob to adjust skew instead of the whole unit, Nice smooth and easy. I will only need vertical from this point on to get the PBS Channels on 12180 V 30000 anyway. I know, a waste of a Corotor II for Ku only, vertical only, but its what I have.
I started by checking out 116.8 on a C2PLL. Now that I had my bearings I slapped on the Corotor and searched 116.8 for C and Ku band channels. In an earlier post about the Corotor II lucky find, Titanium basically said the LNBs on the unit may be too old to work properly.
The old C band LNB was no where near as good as the Titanium unit.
Now the reason for the portable mount. After I locked 116.8 I noticed I could go no further west as i would have been pointing into trees. No problem, cut some more brush and move the whole unit east.
You can see cut branches in the picture above.
So finally I worked my way over to 125W, sorry that tube TVs don't photograph well.
Yes I have an aiming Tube TV, its pretty small and not a big deal if it gets muddy etc...
After I tweaked azimuth and elevation, I adjusted the skew dial and POW, steady, rock solid 72%!
I'm not sure how bad this old Ku LNB will drift, I have an SL1P on order from Wallyhts now that I know I have a workable location.
(KE4EST, how does the signal look? Comparable to your 1.2m?) This is the highest my MicroHD reads.
Some people get in the 80% range. Even on my 10 footer with a strong transponder, Low 70s.
Now you will see another reason that I need to be sure of location before I dig and make a dish permanent, and take the portable route first.
See the little bit of clearing I had to work with? The feedhorn cover is a little crooked but can you see the threading of the needle? You can also see why actuators do me no good.
An actuator for a 3 maybe 4 degree sweep of the arc? NOT. Multiple dishes/lnbfs do the trick for me.
So I have this dish as single output vertical, and in a previous thread I have a converted DISH, single output pointing to the horizontal CCTV mux on 95W Ku.
My plan is to put PBS on a vertical port on one of my 4x8 powered Zinwells, and the CCTV DISH on a horizontal.
Now both single output LNBFs can be shared to all receivers throughout the house.
Sometimes I envy you guys that can just plant a dish anywhere. For me its not that easy.
But I do enjoy the woods.
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