Hello. I have no experience with FTA, and I've been asked to try and get some life out of a very old C Band system. I've read some of the threads and I have a couple ideas but was hoping some of you could offer some advice.
The dish is a 10 foot mesh dish with a Uniden 9900 analog receiver and VC2. I don't know exactly what kind of LNB is installed, but it is C-Band only and at least 20 years old.
I have a used Fortec Lifetime FTA receiver that I was going to just "insert" into this system as an experiment to see what's up there, and maybe expand on it later (like ku). My question is how could this reciever best be installed? My idea was to use a high freq. splitter and split the cable from the lnb and feed both, as illustrated in a diagram in one of the threads. I will use a splitter that blocks power from the Fortec receiver and use the Uniden to power the lnb, move the dish, and switch polarity. If I am on the wrong track, or there is a better way I'd appreciate hearing about it.
Thanks,
lrom
The dish is a 10 foot mesh dish with a Uniden 9900 analog receiver and VC2. I don't know exactly what kind of LNB is installed, but it is C-Band only and at least 20 years old.
I have a used Fortec Lifetime FTA receiver that I was going to just "insert" into this system as an experiment to see what's up there, and maybe expand on it later (like ku). My question is how could this reciever best be installed? My idea was to use a high freq. splitter and split the cable from the lnb and feed both, as illustrated in a diagram in one of the threads. I will use a splitter that blocks power from the Fortec receiver and use the Uniden to power the lnb, move the dish, and switch polarity. If I am on the wrong track, or there is a better way I'd appreciate hearing about it.
Thanks,
lrom
