I know this has been asked a few times in the past. I myself have also wondered how well one would perform.
So this evening I had a little time and after some thought, decided to try it out. It was getting late so I didn't
get to fully test it, but here is what I done so far. Look at the pictures to see what I done. This was all done
very quick, so it could look a little better, but it works so far.
First off I took off the TRIA that was on the dish. (BTW the dish was already mounted pointed at 111.1 for WB)
Then I took one of my chaparral Universal LNBF's and using my meter outside held the LNB in my hand holding
very still to see if it would work at all. When I got a decent signal I decided to fabricate some sort of mount.
I also noted that the holes at the end of the arms were just about right except it needed to be in the middle.
I took a short piece of copper pipe and beat it flat on my anvil. I then measured and drilled some holes and
mounted it up. I decided to point at SES-1 @ 101W. I then fired up my meter again and slowly bent the mount different
ways until I found the focal point. I then locked down the LNB and did some fine adjustments to the dish until I had
a surprisingly, very good signal.
I then hooked this up to and unused port on my 8x1 switch and went in the house. I did the needed changes in the
antenna set-up menu and there is was, 12060 H 26,700 was a couple points better on the scale then on the other dish.
So I deleted all of the transponders in the list for 101 Ku and did a rescan of that bird and it scanned it 10 transponders and 96 channels.
Everything that I had before and all signals were very high. So there you go. I'll add later if I can think of anything else.
It got dark on me so I quit there to go eat supper. Tomorrow if it isn't raining I will point it at a few more birds and see what
kind of signals I get.
So this evening I had a little time and after some thought, decided to try it out. It was getting late so I didn't
get to fully test it, but here is what I done so far. Look at the pictures to see what I done. This was all done
very quick, so it could look a little better, but it works so far.
First off I took off the TRIA that was on the dish. (BTW the dish was already mounted pointed at 111.1 for WB)
Then I took one of my chaparral Universal LNBF's and using my meter outside held the LNB in my hand holding
very still to see if it would work at all. When I got a decent signal I decided to fabricate some sort of mount.
I also noted that the holes at the end of the arms were just about right except it needed to be in the middle.
I took a short piece of copper pipe and beat it flat on my anvil. I then measured and drilled some holes and
mounted it up. I decided to point at SES-1 @ 101W. I then fired up my meter again and slowly bent the mount different
ways until I found the focal point. I then locked down the LNB and did some fine adjustments to the dish until I had
a surprisingly, very good signal.
I then hooked this up to and unused port on my 8x1 switch and went in the house. I did the needed changes in the
antenna set-up menu and there is was, 12060 H 26,700 was a couple points better on the scale then on the other dish.
So I deleted all of the transponders in the list for 101 Ku and did a rescan of that bird and it scanned it 10 transponders and 96 channels.
Everything that I had before and all signals were very high. So there you go. I'll add later if I can think of anything else.
It got dark on me so I quit there to go eat supper. Tomorrow if it isn't raining I will point it at a few more birds and see what
kind of signals I get.
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but I know it was not the best test. I did have the sub off. I am going take it off again but this time solidly mount the LNBF and try that so that I feel I will have a true comparison.
