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MikeD-C05 said:I wonder how you would possibly need all those dishes , especially the 2 super dishes?
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Why don't you just use one of the SuperDISHes for 110/119? It seems unnecessary to have TWO SuperDISHes capable of receiving 110/119 and also having a DISH500 for 110/119. Then you could take down one of the DISH500s or repoint it to 61.5 or 129.
Wow!! Looks like a television station with all of the dishes. Especially the SD's
I'm really surprised you don't have a signal issue with the 105 and 121 since the SD's are mounted on a wooden post. Either way dude, very impressive!!
I'm really surprised you don't have a signal issue with the 105 and 121 since the SD's are mounted on a wooden post. Either way dude, very impressive!!
chaddux said:
because honestly the FSS part of the Superdish needs to be 105% aimed right for optimum signal. So people have tuned the 105 or 121 to be right and then threw their old dish500 up for 110/119
gives you best signal on all satellites
The top Superdish is for 105-110 with the 119 outrigger LNB removed.
The other Superdish is for 121-119 with the 110 outrigger LNB removed.
The lower D500 with one LNB is for 61.5 (Voom or SkyAngel).
The top D500 doesn't appear to be pointed at anything valuable, at least for US viewing. Looks like it is aimed at something around 82 and 91? That would be BEV.
No 129 or 148 in the mix - although 129 would be possible with a "mad scientist" LNB mounted on the non-outrigger side of the SuperDish121. Of course if he added either he would have to support six locations instead of five on his E* equipment. (The other two sats feeding his B* equipment.)
JL
The other Superdish is for 121-119 with the 110 outrigger LNB removed.
The lower D500 with one LNB is for 61.5 (Voom or SkyAngel).
The top D500 doesn't appear to be pointed at anything valuable, at least for US viewing. Looks like it is aimed at something around 82 and 91? That would be BEV.
No 129 or 148 in the mix - although 129 would be possible with a "mad scientist" LNB mounted on the non-outrigger side of the SuperDish121. Of course if he added either he would have to support six locations instead of five on his E* equipment. (The other two sats feeding his B* equipment.)
JL
If he wanted to have EV and E*. Many who want Canadian and live in the USA also keep American programming.chaddux said:
MikeD-C05 said:
It's not a question of NEED, it's question of WANT. I still WANT to have six sat setup, and with 129 it's now a possibility again.
OoTLink said:
Yeah, since the lnbf's for the 105 and 121 sats (FSS) are conjoined to their adjacent LNB's (105/110 & 119/121) I figured it would just be easier to use the two super dishes and pull off the DP dual lnbf's for 61.5 and 148 rather than try to rig up some other setup.
The lower d500 is for 61.5 and has a dual from one of the superdishes. The upper d500 is the original dish, I was going to use it for 148, even had a custom arm made at a local machine shop so it could reach over the dishes on the west, but it's not doing anything now - since the arm would have to be about 65 ft long to get over the tree line in the west, but have tried to hit 129 w/no luck yet. Still, it does balance out the pole nicely. Note: it used to have a DP Twin LNBF and was mounted (ungrounded) on the utility pole behind the dish in the pics - which I wanted to keep from having holes in roof - this was a bad idea. A friend who does Direct TV gave me the old duals after the DP twin and old twin he had already given me got fried after lightning strikes (that's also the reason the for the new pole,all the ground wires, the ground rod at the pole, and the new receiver and DVD player in the entertainment system) Still think grounding's not important?
webbydude said:
Actually I just checked and the 105 has dropped half the transponders, but since I don't have any locals on 105 I never noticed.
Iceberg said:
Yes, it's much easier trying to peak two signals than three. If I can't find 129, I'm going to follow the d500 option you gave. If I had a choice, I'd have a one dish per lnbf.
miguelaqui said:
4x6 - 12 foot long - 7 feet above ground, five below sitting w/3 ft long 1/2 rebar driven through side to side and front to back in about 250 lb of concrete. It doesn't move much.
129 is turned off for now.. no one is hitting it even though i have a lnbf pointed right at it from when it was on... right now i get notta peak from 129.. just waiting for the bird to go live again
129 shouldn't be hard once the signal is turned back on. You could get close by connecting a cable to the "110" side of the dish and finding 119 - and setting the skew for whatever you normally would use for SD121 (it is close enough). Then the "119" side of the dish would be close to 129 and easier to fine tune when 129 comes back. Or you could wait.
BTW: I've added pictures of my dishes to my theatre page here at SatGuys in case you are interested in my wiring and dishes.
JL
BTW: I've added pictures of my dishes to my theatre page here at SatGuys in case you are interested in my wiring and dishes.
JL
