im sure this question has been anwsered on here but just a little lazy to find it. but has any one hooked up a pansat reciver to a C-Band Dish? the questions is how to get the reciver to switch the servo on the lnb from vertical and horizontal polary on both the Ku and C-Band with this? and how to get the dish to move using its motor?
Hooking a FTA Reciver to the Big Dish
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You can do it one of three ways....
1. Use an old analog receiver to control servo movement and dish position
2. Get yourself a G-Box or V-Box which takes commands from your Pansat and "converts" them to move your dish....do a search for V-box and you will come up with plenty of info.
3. Put a LNBF on your dish and the Pansat will control polarity and use old analog receiver to move dish
I do the analog receiver to move dish method and have a voltage controlled LNBF to change polarity. I have them slaved together so I can still watch the occasional analog feed (what is left of them).
1. Use an old analog receiver to control servo movement and dish position
2. Get yourself a G-Box or V-Box which takes commands from your Pansat and "converts" them to move your dish....do a search for V-box and you will come up with plenty of info.
3. Put a LNBF on your dish and the Pansat will control polarity and use old analog receiver to move dish
I do the analog receiver to move dish method and have a voltage controlled LNBF to change polarity. I have them slaved together so I can still watch the occasional analog feed (what is left of them).
alright thanks for the INfo i was in the process of converting my old BirdView dish .. will proubly get a Lnbf ... and a vbox since my analog reciver Uniden SQ590 died ... looks like the capactors in the unit has dried out im sure if i replaced all them it would work again.. but since all the analog channels are gone ..
http://www.skyvision.com/store/mi3500028.html i did find this unless you have any other sujestions
http://www.skyvision.com/store/mi3500028.html i did find this unless you have any other sujestions
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well im considering getting the 9200HD one with the S3 Option the only reason i'd need the servo is if i fixed my analog reciver
A Birdview eh? That will have a lot of the guys drooling! One of, if not THE most sought after dish I know of. Many a thread on Birdview dishes here.
Regarding a C/Ku LNBF I would recommend the DMX741 (from WSI/Galaxy Marketing) or the CK-1 GEOSATpro (from SatAv and Sadoun). All 3 are sponsors of this website and you will find links to their sites on top of this forum page.
As Inno said above there's a ton of Birdview info here in the C-band section, do a search for threads started by "linuxman", with "Birdview" in the title.
If you have the stock BV scalar you will probably have to enlarge the opening in the scalar a little to make it big enough for a LNBF to fit.
I have a 9200 with the pansat S-2 plus tuner and I am very dissapointed in it. This receiver heats up so bad it locks up, without a fan running on it you can hardly scan more than 1 bird without freeze up. My old coolsat works better and cost much less. no s2 though.
I am aware of three combo lnb's for c/ku reception -- BSC621, DMS741 and the GeoSat (I don't know the number). I bought mine a couple of years ago -- the BSC621. It is controversial as far as ku reception, but mine is working fine!
Somebody gave me a later c/ku band 10 foot dish, a 1993 Perfect 10. It had a corotor II originally mounted on it. So I knew it was getting ku reception.
I bought me a v-box 5 for $50. I've seen them for $35-$40. I got a couple of hundred feet of used orange outside extension cord and put it inside plastic conduit from Lowe's to my dish about 150 feet away. I also ran a double strand of RG6 inside. One strand would have been enough. My lnb switches from c-band to ku through one wire. I think its called a 22 mhz switch. It's part of the BSC621.
I'm using old fortec ultra receivers because the remote frequency is compatible with my v-box. My newer Captiveworks 600P receivers wouldn't work. The v-box remote was causing erratic functions on my CW receiver.
I ran the coax to the v-box and then to my fortec ultra. I didn't even get the USALS going. I'm using manual positions to program my v-box. I'm sure USALS would have worked even better, but I'm lazy. Using it the way I do necessitates the use of the extra v-box remote. But, heck, it came with the box anyway. I might as well use it. I can hear remotes clicking together in the bed as I sleep at night.
I'm not suggesting you do it the way I did. Its just something to use for reference. I've got an extra Buzz regular receiver hooked up to four fixed ku dishes which I have hooked up to my favorite ku satellite dishes (old primestars). That way I don't have to worry about motoring them around so much. I've got all of it hooked up to different inputs on my new digital tv. I even hooked up an outside antenna for HD ota tv. That way I've got my local channels, too.
So its even a cheap hobby (compared to paying hundreds of dollars a year for DTV or DN).
But my wife couldn't figure all the switching. I've got a chart on my bedroom wall showing the satellite positions of about 20 satellites which I'm presently receiving. Sometimes I have to "bump" the v-box remote a couple of clicks to get a strong signal on my bug, ugly dish in bad weather. So I bought her the "Welcome Pack" from DN for $9.99 per month. Now she's happy with Kate Plus 8 minus John.
Hey, life is good. Go fta!!!
Somebody gave me a later c/ku band 10 foot dish, a 1993 Perfect 10. It had a corotor II originally mounted on it. So I knew it was getting ku reception.
I bought me a v-box 5 for $50. I've seen them for $35-$40. I got a couple of hundred feet of used orange outside extension cord and put it inside plastic conduit from Lowe's to my dish about 150 feet away. I also ran a double strand of RG6 inside. One strand would have been enough. My lnb switches from c-band to ku through one wire. I think its called a 22 mhz switch. It's part of the BSC621.
I'm using old fortec ultra receivers because the remote frequency is compatible with my v-box. My newer Captiveworks 600P receivers wouldn't work. The v-box remote was causing erratic functions on my CW receiver.
I ran the coax to the v-box and then to my fortec ultra. I didn't even get the USALS going. I'm using manual positions to program my v-box. I'm sure USALS would have worked even better, but I'm lazy. Using it the way I do necessitates the use of the extra v-box remote. But, heck, it came with the box anyway. I might as well use it. I can hear remotes clicking together in the bed as I sleep at night.
I'm not suggesting you do it the way I did. Its just something to use for reference. I've got an extra Buzz regular receiver hooked up to four fixed ku dishes which I have hooked up to my favorite ku satellite dishes (old primestars). That way I don't have to worry about motoring them around so much. I've got all of it hooked up to different inputs on my new digital tv. I even hooked up an outside antenna for HD ota tv. That way I've got my local channels, too.
So its even a cheap hobby (compared to paying hundreds of dollars a year for DTV or DN).
But my wife couldn't figure all the switching. I've got a chart on my bedroom wall showing the satellite positions of about 20 satellites which I'm presently receiving. Sometimes I have to "bump" the v-box remote a couple of clicks to get a strong signal on my bug, ugly dish in bad weather. So I bought her the "Welcome Pack" from DN for $9.99 per month. Now she's happy with Kate Plus 8 minus John.
Hey, life is good. Go fta!!!
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