Goin on a dish hunt tomorrow!

[markbone100]

Nice! I seen a few that was worth using but never made it around to ask. One was a primestar dish but for the life of me I cant remember where I seen it at. The second was a 6ft dish that I been meaning to stop and ask for a long time and never did. Last week a scrapper got ahold of it and its gone

 

[Anole]

The LNB can put out only Vertical or Horizontal signals, depending on whether it receives 12 volts or 18 volts.
That's why the solution above can't work.
Say one receiver wants Vertical and one wants Horizontal.
What will the LNB do? What will all the other receivers get?

The bandstacked LNBS put both Vertical and stacked in frequency above that, Horizontal transponders.
So, they work with a single wire.

Please re-read the post above for all the solutions that I can think of.

PS: you say the dish is elliptical... look directly into the feedhorn...
Is it round? Elliptical? Could you post a picture?
Cause, if the feed is round, then it treats the dish as round.

 

[shmew22]

The feed horn is ellIptical as well....

 

[Anole]

1. a round feedhorn will get by, at slightly reduced efficiency, so...
- you could mount any dual or quad output LNBF and try it.

2. you can remove the feed and mount it to another LNB
- Invacom LNBs are generally quite expensive (over $70) but would have two outputs
- a recycled FSS LNB from a DishNet SuperDish could be used, but it's bandstacked

Below are some threads where members have mounted modified feedhorns to DishNet LNBs
You do not have to read all the material, but look through the threads at the pictures for ideas.

I know the feedhorn on my DirecWay dish is threaded.
That's a problem, because the DishNet LNB is threaded, too.
So, to mate them, I'd have to simply drill out the feedhorn, and bolt it on.
Not a major project, and probably the worst you'd face.


Pendragon compares Ku feedhorns with Dish 105° horn:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-ai...4-bandstacked-shootout-why-amps-good-bad.html

Tech#344 builds his own feedhorns for DishNet 105° LNBs:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/242947-question-about-multi-switches-2.html#post2461471

Magic Static makes feedhorns from old DirecTV Phase III LNBF:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air-fta-discussion/253299-dish-dtv-=-fta-dish-fss.html

 

[shmew22]

Cool... I'll read up and see wat I can come up with. Thanks man

 

[shmew22]

I further inspected the Hughes lnb and it is elliptical but inside the feed it's circular. So my question is does it make the feed a elliptical or circular? If it is circular I'll just get me a dual output lnb and slap that baby on there... Lol

 

[Anole]

It's elliptical.
And it should bolt right up to a DishNet FSS LNB.
That's what I'd do with it.

 

[shmew22]

Sweet. Now not to sound stupid but I am a noob... Lol. Which one is the dish fss?

 

[turbosat]

Dishnetwork had provided a dish for awhile, that used a bandstacked lnbf, I think it was used when they had channels on 121W...they still can be found sometimes, elliptical dish with linear (bandstacked) lnbf. As far as I remember , all their other dishes are set up for circular polarized signals.

edit to add : I have one of those things, if you want it, send me a private message. I'm not using it for anything, and it needs a job lol.

 

[shmew22]

Ygpm. So will I use that lnb with a multiswitch? Or will I need a dp switch with that bad boy?

 

[Anole]

reading material

Iceberg on Bandstacked Dish Network LNB frequency considerations:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air-fta-discussion/117442-surplus-super-dish.html
- which LNB to use on SuperDish:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air-fta-discussion/159383-amc-21-superdish.html

bandstacked Ku local oscillator frequencies:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air-fta-discussion/204928-local-oscillator-info.html

There is even a C-band band-stacked LNBF out there (Sadoun)

And to answer another question, it kinda depends on what else you have in your dish farm.
But a nice left-over DP-34 switch would work.

 

[shmew22]

Mind=blown! Lol but I'm learning so it's all good. So basically what I'll need to do is feed the cable into the v side of the multiswitch and scan at the specified freqs for h and v? then the receivers will b able to tune both since it only sees them as being v?

 

[shmew22]

so I got my stacked LNB from turbosat yesterday! got the horn mounted up and on the dish. Seems to be working pretty good so far. I am still getting used to aiming with this lnb though. Seems slightly more difficult than the hughes lnb was but im happy with it! played around with the dish today and yesterday checking out diff sats and i cought my first feeds ever. Really exciting stuff and it just leaves me wanting more. thanks for all your help this far guys!

 

[Tron]

You can't go wrong with that LNB! :up

 

[turbosat]

HOw about that! Glad its doing something for you..

 

[Anole]

Don't 'cha just love it when a plan comes together?
Lot of those strange two-way dishes float the feedhorn on the parts you need to remove.
Really hard to get it restored to the proper location.
This dish appears to bolt it firmly to the arm/framework. - :up
Congratulations on a job well done!

PS: thanks for the fine pictures, too.
Really adds a lot to a thread, and helps others who may follow in your footsteps.

 

[shmew22]

I do love it! Lol but it's not over yet. Still waiting on my switches from sadoun but so far so good! Thanks for the compliments guys. Haha, makes me feel like my first rodeo was a full ride. :up

 

[shmew22]

Switches are in and on the board, now to venture under the house and get it up and running... Whoohoo spider time!