Now a member of the 4' c band club

[neftv]

Andrew does make a polar mount for the 1.2M. I purchased one from Dow Electronics.

I have this dish is the mount that is standard is that a polar mount? It attach to a 3" o.d. pole and has the scale on it to elevate from 15 degrees to 90 I think. Id this is so then what motor would work with it?

 

[dem0nlord]

The mount that comes with those dishes would be an az/el mount. I'm attaching the PDF for the polar mount.

 

[neftv]

The mount that comes with those dishes would be an az/el mount. I'm attaching the PDF for the polar mount.

That's interesting. The mount my channel master has is this one shown in this page
http://www.andrew.com/search/BN_PA-100547-EN.aspx
The simple question can this dish I have be motorized in any way? perferably coax.

 

[dem0nlord]

Sure, you can motorize it by putting it on the polar mount. This would then use a linear actuator to move it. Use a 36V actuator, or there are DiSEqC actuators available. Just keep in mind that like the DiSEqC motors, a DiSEqC actuator is going to be slow moving.

I'd strongly urge you to go the 36V route though. I can't imagine anyone doing C band without an analog receiver, they cost next to nothing, and will drive the 36V actuator.

 

[techno935]

Back for a moment or so to the subject at hand. Say I wanna get a 1.2 M dish with HH120 motor (heavy duty), plus a C-band LNB. How well would the signals come in?

Dr. Hydro....what have your results been so far as of today. (9/14)


I'm seriously considering this cost effective method of getting C-band.

 

[drhydro]

Hi Techno,
I only played with that for one afternoon, now I have a ku LNB hooked back up to the dish. One of these days I will play with the c band on the 4' some more, but first i want to get the proper scaler ring as i am fairly sure I was picking up interference from my c band dish.

 

[mastermesh]

Keep playin.

and posting your results. Someday, I may talk the wife in to letting me put out the P* as it's now in the basment collecting dust. Would be interesting if someone posted a list of what exactly you can pick up on which bird using a p* and C band lnb. I'm guessing you could strap a cband and invacom quad together for both c and ku? Would be nice if someone made an lnb that did both ku linear and circular and c band too.

 

[scottc98]

and posting your results. Someday, I may talk the wife in to letting me put out the P* as it's now in the basment collecting dust. Would be interesting if someone posted a list of what exactly you can pick up on which bird using a p* and C band lnb. I'm guessing you could strap a cband and invacom quad together for both c and ku? Would be nice if someone made an lnb that did both ku linear and circular and c band too.

Strapping a Invacom to a cband might be more difficult. One, its heavy and two, have to worry about linear and circular KU offset.

I think that a c/ku lnb with a offset circular (DBS) lnb would be better. THe circular KU signals are much stronger and don't need to worry about lnb skew.