40" C/Ku - Band Dish
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PSB said:Had a look at the link, looks very similar. But we will have to wait until MrTim tells us what specific type of dish it is intended for, but as I have seen tonight it certainly works on an off-set dish. Cascade will tell you the same. The picture on the box shows a prime focus dish.
Still have a lot of tweaking to do
It's actually made for prime focal BUT I've got emails from lots of guys using them on offset.... some tell me they don't use the scalar ring. You might try it. We sell these into S. America, Spain, Portugal, etc. Those guys spend the extra money to get this LNBF because they tell me it out performs anything they can find. See http://www.dmsiusa.com/spain.htm
He is using a older model before the engineer improved it!
Curse me and my lack of Blind Scan
A few days ago, I found a c-band lnb at the thrift shop for a whole whopping $1! I've been completely busy the past few days, and just now got a chance to toss it on the old DirecPC dish mounted on my shed and have a go at it.
The lnb is one of the kinds that rotors from H to V, so I'm stuck at V for now. I could rig up some wiring to give me control inside, but I don't care all that much; I'm buying a new C-band lnb from Pete when I make my 120cm dish purchase. Anyhow, with my SF-95 meter being broken, I tossed it together in an imitation of my Winegard pointed at G10R. I got great signal... but manually selecting different transponders didn't get me any Quality. I swung the dish east; more great signal (yes, I can make it lose signal too, so know it's not stuck that way
) but no quality. So now I sit on various birds and know I'm pointed right... but having no clue what I'm pointed at, and without blind scan.. no picture yet.
I'll keep trying (of course) and post any results I get. If I get really desperate, I guess I could lash it onto my Winegard 76cm, but I've heard better results off of the 3.x' dishes.
A few days ago, I found a c-band lnb at the thrift shop for a whole whopping $1! I've been completely busy the past few days, and just now got a chance to toss it on the old DirecPC dish mounted on my shed and have a go at it.
The lnb is one of the kinds that rotors from H to V, so I'm stuck at V for now. I could rig up some wiring to give me control inside, but I don't care all that much; I'm buying a new C-band lnb from Pete when I make my 120cm dish purchase. Anyhow, with my SF-95 meter being broken, I tossed it together in an imitation of my Winegard pointed at G10R. I got great signal... but manually selecting different transponders didn't get me any Quality. I swung the dish east; more great signal (yes, I can make it lose signal too, so know it's not stuck that way
) but no quality. So now I sit on various birds and know I'm pointed right... but having no clue what I'm pointed at, and without blind scan.. no picture yet.I'll keep trying (of course) and post any results I get. If I get really desperate, I guess I could lash it onto my Winegard 76cm, but I've heard better results off of the 3.x' dishes.
If you mean scanning preset frequencies/polarization/symbol rate that are sat-specific... sure.
Tossed the c-band lnb on the winegard and for laughs, tossed a $5 Geneal Instruments Super350i VideoCypherRS reciever on it I picked up on a whim. No remote, but the on-screen channel readout says "T5 01".. ok, pointed it at T5 and got me a fuzzy picture of some basketball! lol... no clue what TP/freq etc I'm on. I'll toss it back on the Twinhan and poke around...
Edit: Hey, now I'm watching... some bearded guy talking about the rocky landscape around him! Must be some analougue, think I'm still on T5. Really weird to be able to tune the picture in by moving the dish... no quality or signal levels, just watching how fuzzy or clear the picture is Well, chalk this up as a success for picking up a few analogue signals off T5!
Edit2: Manually switched the LNB from V to H, now I'm watching some Charlie Chaplin... and have a Galaxy 4R Buena Vista Television test card. I guess mounting the c-band lnb realy changed some things! Still haven't pulled anything but analogue feeds thus far... will keeping working
Tossed the c-band lnb on the winegard and for laughs, tossed a $5 Geneal Instruments Super350i VideoCypherRS reciever on it I picked up on a whim. No remote, but the on-screen channel readout says "T5 01".. ok, pointed it at T5 and got me a fuzzy picture of some basketball! lol... no clue what TP/freq etc I'm on. I'll toss it back on the Twinhan and poke around...
Edit: Hey, now I'm watching... some bearded guy talking about the rocky landscape around him! Must be some analougue, think I'm still on T5. Really weird to be able to tune the picture in by moving the dish... no quality or signal levels, just watching how fuzzy or clear the picture is
Well, chalk this up as a success for picking up a few analogue signals off T5!Edit2: Manually switched the LNB from V to H, now I'm watching some Charlie Chaplin... and have a Galaxy 4R Buena Vista Television test card. I guess mounting the c-band lnb realy changed some things! Still haven't pulled anything but analogue feeds thus far... will keeping working
Hey Pete,
Just curious as to the brand of dish that's on the roof next to the P* in the first picture (the one with what looks like an Invacom LNB on it). I ask because it looks just like one of mine...of course I've been cursing mine 'cause it's warped Mines an Azure Shine.
PD
Just curious as to the brand of dish that's on the roof next to the P* in the first picture (the one with what looks like an Invacom LNB on it). I ask because it looks just like one of mine...of course I've been cursing mine 'cause it's warped
Mines an Azure Shine.PD
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I'm thinking that for offset dishes, no scaler rings might be the way to go, as suggested. But how to remove it? Pete, are yours removable on the DMS ASC421 C-LNBF's? On the one old C-band lnb I have here, short of doing some irreversable damage with some power tools I don't see how the scaler rings could come off...
Edit: I think I found the answer to my own question
Found a picture of the ASC421, and the scaler ring sure looks removable:Attachments
Sweet! Looks like my planned setup will work pretty well:
Found a place that sells 120cm dishes for $264.83 SHIPPED (Azure Shine F Ku-Band/C-Band Dish - 1.2 meter (Baja Beach) offset). The specs are pretty near identacle to the Fortec, except for better Aperture Efficiency. I already ordered the DMS ASC421 C-LNBF from Pete. I'm planning on trying the lnb without the scaler rings in a dual-lnb clamp so I'll have Ku and C-band on the same dish Now if only I had a better Ku lnb to go on this new setup... *kicks the old .6dB*
Any suggestions on a clamp source? Leaning towards ebay atm (hose clamp won't work in this situation).
Found a place that sells 120cm dishes for $264.83 SHIPPED (Azure Shine F Ku-Band/C-Band Dish - 1.2 meter (Baja Beach) offset). The specs are pretty near identacle to the Fortec, except for better Aperture Efficiency. I already ordered the DMS ASC421 C-LNBF from Pete. I'm planning on trying the lnb without the scaler rings in a dual-lnb clamp so I'll have Ku and C-band on the same dish
Now if only I had a better Ku lnb to go on this new setup... *kicks the old .6dB*Any suggestions on a clamp source? Leaning towards ebay atm (hose clamp won't work in this situation).
Tried a 21x28 oval dish and a Chaparral C/Ku LNBF this afternoon.
Using the C100 analog receiver, I was able to see numerous channels on birds from AMC3 to Galaxy 12. I swung back to AMC3, tweaked it for vertical (could see Doc on TP20 but VERY snowy), did a blind scan with the Pansat 2500 and came up high and dry. It started looking stormy so I will try again tomorrow. Also, a better C-Band LNB should be here as well.
On Galaxy 4, I had color and audio on "World Harvest TV", analog of course.....Also noticed some weird goings on on TP1 of IA-5. It was scrambled, but intelligible!
See photoz below...
On a final note, an analog receiver is invaluable for this experiment.
Using the C100 analog receiver, I was able to see numerous channels on birds from AMC3 to Galaxy 12. I swung back to AMC3, tweaked it for vertical (could see Doc on TP20 but VERY snowy), did a blind scan with the Pansat 2500 and came up high and dry. It started looking stormy so I will try again tomorrow. Also, a better C-Band LNB should be here as well.
On Galaxy 4, I had color and audio on "World Harvest TV", analog of course.....Also noticed some weird goings on on TP1 of IA-5. It was scrambled, but intelligible!
See photoz below...
On a final note, an analog receiver is invaluable for this experiment.
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