now my current setup:
- 10 Foot Winegard Quadstar, with a 24" VonWeise actuator, a Titanium C1W-PLL LNBF, a Chapparal Polarotor with dielectric plate and a DRO LNB, and an X2 Ku LNBF, both mounted to the sides of the C1W-PLL.
- 120cm Offset dish, that came with a fixed mount. I adapted it to a new old-stock Orbitron polar mount. It also has a 24" Von Weise actuator, and a GeoSatPro UL1-PLL. It also has a sidecar stacked circular DBS LNBF, which is not even connected.
The 120cm dish can receive from 12.5W to 125W in Ku.
The 10-footer can receive from 22W to 135W C-Band, and from 30W to 133W Ku (taking advantage of the offset created by the sidecar LNBs)
In both cases the reception at those extremes is very marginal because of trees. I can reasonably receive reliably stable signals from 22W Ku to 125W Ku, and from 31W to 127W C-Band, with partial reception beyond 127W and below 31W.
Note that the actuators are mounted on the "wrong"side for my location. That's because when I installed those dishes, I had tall trees and did not expect any reception west of 110W. The reality is that it did work somewhat ok, and then almost a year ago, we had a violent weather event (a macroburst, a bit like a tornado), and now those tall trees are in my firewood stack. So at some point i might move the actuator on the 10-footer, but it's actually working well the way it is.
The smaller fixed dish mounted on the short PVC pipe is as you can see, an rescued DN Superdish, with an Inverto Black Ultra, pointed at Intelsat 35e for the few French news channels in lower Ku. It works surprisingly well.
on the picture, the 120cm is aimed at 115W, and the 10-footer is looking at 55.5W (I had just scanned in the new transponder used by DW-TV)
- 10 Foot Winegard Quadstar, with a 24" VonWeise actuator, a Titanium C1W-PLL LNBF, a Chapparal Polarotor with dielectric plate and a DRO LNB, and an X2 Ku LNBF, both mounted to the sides of the C1W-PLL.
- 120cm Offset dish, that came with a fixed mount. I adapted it to a new old-stock Orbitron polar mount. It also has a 24" Von Weise actuator, and a GeoSatPro UL1-PLL. It also has a sidecar stacked circular DBS LNBF, which is not even connected.
The 120cm dish can receive from 12.5W to 125W in Ku.
The 10-footer can receive from 22W to 135W C-Band, and from 30W to 133W Ku (taking advantage of the offset created by the sidecar LNBs)
In both cases the reception at those extremes is very marginal because of trees. I can reasonably receive reliably stable signals from 22W Ku to 125W Ku, and from 31W to 127W C-Band, with partial reception beyond 127W and below 31W.
Note that the actuators are mounted on the "wrong"side for my location. That's because when I installed those dishes, I had tall trees and did not expect any reception west of 110W. The reality is that it did work somewhat ok, and then almost a year ago, we had a violent weather event (a macroburst, a bit like a tornado), and now those tall trees are in my firewood stack. So at some point i might move the actuator on the 10-footer, but it's actually working well the way it is.
The smaller fixed dish mounted on the short PVC pipe is as you can see, an rescued DN Superdish, with an Inverto Black Ultra, pointed at Intelsat 35e for the few French news channels in lower Ku. It works surprisingly well.
on the picture, the 120cm is aimed at 115W, and the 10-footer is looking at 55.5W (I had just scanned in the new transponder used by DW-TV)
