Morning Ruminations,Questions, and Interesting Observations

[stogie5150]

Sitting here this morning, drinking coffee, waiting on my Satpro reciever and my VP1020A to arrive, I thought of a couple things to ask/run by y'all.

How long can the loop out from a CS 5000 be? My CS 5000 is behind my TV about 25-30 feet from my computer. I want the Coolsat to control the motor and the Twinhan to tune the wildfeeds. is 30 feet too long for an rg-6 loop out?

Secondly, ever set up a dish and have a wild-eyed skew setting? As some of you may remember (or not) My main dish has LOS issues with SBS 6. SO I decided to install a spare P* dish I have just for SBS 6. While installing it, when I blindscanned it for the first time ONN had about 65% quality. So I began to think....wonder if the skew might be off...so I loosened the bolts on the mount, begin to turn the dish...65,70, 73, 80, 87,90 SQ! The dish is almost vertical! But SQ is great on Vertical and Horizontal TP's ! Weird. Ever had something like that to happen?

 

[Mr Tony]

Sitting here this morning, drinking coffee, waiting on my Satpro reciever and my VP1020A to arrive, I thought of a couple things to ask/run by y'all.

How long can the loop out from a CS 5000 be? My CS 5000 is behind my TV about 25-30 feet from my computer. I want the Coolsat to control the motor and the Twinhan to tune the wildfeeds. is 30 feet too long for an rg-6 loop out?

I hooked a loop out and all I had handy was a 75 foot cable. The boxes were maybe 5 feet apart but the cable was 75 feet. Worked fine

Secondly, ever set up a dish and have a wild-eyed skew setting? As some of you may remember (or not) My main dish has LOS issues with SBS 6. SO I decided to install a spare P* dish I have just for SBS 6. While installing it, when I blindscanned it for the first time ONN had about 65% quality. So I began to think....wonder if the skew might be off...so I loosened the bolts on the mount, begin to turn the dish...65,70, 73, 80, 87,90 SQ! The dish is almost vertical! But SQ is great on Vertical and Horizontal TP's ! Weird. Ever had something like that to happen?

depending on location, I can see that. I asked about skew and was told if you live in the southern part of the US and SBS6 is pretty far off from your true south, it is possible to have pretty wild skew numbers

 

[stogie5150]

Well closest to my true south is 97W, so that might be the reason for the skew. Sure looks weird, though.

Thanks for the info, Ice.:up My VP1020a came in the mailbox today. so I have a weekend project, running the cable, Although its hot as hades in the attic already, gets above 70 degrees down here, and it gets HOT in the attic QUICKLY.

 

[Anole]

no explanation

Out of curiosity, I ran your location ( assumed zip=70461 ) on two sat calculators.
SatFinder by Lutis, and GeoSatFinder.com by SatAV both agree with -24.9º for SBS6.
Maybe we've overlooked something....?

 

[stogie5150]

Out of curiosity, I ran your location ( assumed zip=70461 ) on two sat calculators.
SatFinder by Lutis, and GeoSatFinder.com by SatAV both agree with -24.9º for SBS6.
Maybe we've overlooked something....?

That's where I started, 25
degrees. Where I ended up, was probably 35-45 degrees on the P* scale, starting from 90 of course. when I get a chance I'll post a pic of the dish and the skew. I really don't care, it works! :up

 

[Tron]

depending on location, I can see that. I asked about skew and was told if you live in the southern part of the US and SBS6 is pretty far off from your true south, it is possible to have pretty wild skew numbers

I picked a Superdish 121 out of a dumpster yesterday (minus the LNB assembly, but with a shiny new, galvanized 2" mounting pole about 8' long). It is amazing how much those dishes are skewed down here, looks like the horizontal axis of the dish is tilted at greater than a 45 degree angle!

 

[stogie5150]

I finally got around to taking pics of the skew...

 

[Mr Tony]

I see why the skew is really wacky. You have it off by 90 degrees. The way it shows in the picture would be if you were aiming at G10 which is to the west of you.

With it set normally it should work at 70 skew or so

But if it works fine, you may not want to change it

 

[Anole]

...hrmmm..... I just fed SBS6 and New Orleans into the Sadoun calculator.
It does look to me like it wants you to twist the way Stogie has shown in his picture.
Funny, I've never had this trouble before...

I'm so used to looking at everything from the back, I'm confused

 

[Mr Tony]

it does look weird in the picture but it doesn't hurt to try it the other way. Or maybe the LNB might be off by 90 degrees? Can the LNB be twisted too?

 

[stogie5150]

The LNB is installed straight up. I lined it up to zero. The dish, well, I just put it on the ONN transponder and skewed the dish both ways until I had the best signal. Where it is right now is the best I got. I have no idea why, Like y'all said maybe I am 90 degrees off...but it works danged good like it is so I am leaving it.:up

 

[Mr Tony]

exactly. If it ain't broke don't screw with it (right now)