Dish Change Question

[HipKat]

Dish installers, how do you ground a pole mount setup now days? Is the pole a good ground or do you also run a green ground wire back to the home ground?

Messenger wire from the dish to the ground point at the house with the messenger wire connected to a ground strap on the pole

 

[charlesrshell]

Messenger wire from the dish to the ground point at the house with the messenger wire connected to a ground strap on the pole

Thanks

 

[telstar_1]

In the olden days, the only name we had was LNA (Low Noise Amplifier). Then block down conversion come along as LNBA (Low Noise BLock converting Amplifier). That's mostly fallen out of favor, but I still use it out of habit. Both LNB and LNBF are the common acronyms these days.

But, no matter which acronym you use, most here will know what you mean (but perhaps with minor acronym police quibbling).

Or like I mentioned, without contractions you could end up with an "LNABDCF". Yes, probably the first LNBs were referenced as LNBA (could have as easily been LNAB), then shortened just to LNB. The F was then added to distinguish between an LNB without an integrated feedhorn(s) and one with.

I know Jim explained it above but every "eye" on a video Dish is an LNBF.

The pickups facing the dish are actually the feedhorn(s), which are a component of the overall LNBF unit that attaches to the plastic adapter.

 

[HipKat]

Or like I mentioned, without contractions you could end up with an "LNABDCF". Yes, probably the first LNBs were referenced as LNBA (could have as easily been LNAB), then shortened just to LNB. The F was then added to distinguish between an LNB without an integrated feedhorn(s) and one with.


The pickups facing the dish are actually the feedhorn(s), which are a component of the overall LNBF unit that attaches to the plastic adapter.

Yeah, that's what I said....