Question about using a DN dish

[Bobby C]

I have recently aquired a new 24" dish network dish it is kinda egg shapped and not true round shapped, I was wondering if this would be big enough to pick up regular non dish network satellites with using the correct standard feedhorn? Now my next question would be how would i retrofit the feed arm to accept a standard KU band LNBF?
Thanks for any and all advice...

 

[meinename]

Read this:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/fta-mpeg2-faqs/34131-what-can-i-get-18-dish-dish-500-a.html

With that dish 500 You'd be wasting your time if you wanted any kind of reliable FTA with a linear LNB. Once you get a linear LNB on there you will only get the strongest of the strong, and that isn't much. 3 channels, location and weather dependent.

I did this when I first got my Coolsat 5000:
SatelliteGuys.US - meinename's Album: Dish 500 for 123W

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Wait, are you talking about the 26"Hx24"W on the non-skewable polar mount?

 

[Bobby C]

This isnt an 18" Dish it is 24"

 

[eurosport]

A Dish 500 is 20" so yours sounds like a slightly bigger one. Superdish maybe, or is that one bigger than 24 inches? I only have some extra 18 inchers and 500's laying around, so I'm not sure what size a Superdish is.

 

[Mr Tony]

can you take a pic of it?

 

[meinename]

If he has the one I think he has...

I picked one up for fun from a neighbor last December.
It's a d-tube polar mount that's non-skewable. Imprint indicates that they use the same polar mount for a Dish 300 and this dish with a larger reflector. Reflector measures 24 inches wide by 26 inches tall.

Pics attached.
It's pointed at 119W and I added 110W yesterday to watch Pirate TV ITC for kicks. My LOS is frustratingly split here...

DN was using them here for the HD stuff on 129W before C2.

Any ways this is the dish that I used for 97W when I was reviewing out the DVR-1100c. I got about half of the transponders. I remember watching MHz Worldwide, Russia Today (borderline), Press TV, and listening to American Liberty Radio. My Coolsat hardly had a day that it would work except for MHz Worldwide.

For the linear lnb bracket I used the one I got with my red Techsat Tracker II+
Took some messing with screws, nuts and washers to get something to get it to stay but I had it working for over a month semi-reliably. A good rain cloud and I lost most everything on it 'til it passed.

Got the bracket from here:
http://hypermegasat.com/Package Deals.html
http://hypermegasat.com/Accessories.htm#universal brack

 

[eurosport]

Iceberg would be proud....the LNBs are held on with zip ties and a piece of WOOD!

 

[Mr Tony]

yes I would be

 

[Bobby C]

Thanks Everyone, it sounds like it basically would not be worth my time to mess with it then. It was given to me and i though just maybe i could use it for a fixed dish but sounds like it is still too small for the real satelites out there will work best with the kindergarden sats for E* and DN

 

[Sadoun]

Bobby

You will need a minimum of 30"+ dish to get FTA on KU.

The 24" dish you are talking about is usually used for 129 echostar satellite as a wing dish because that orbital location has a weaker signal.

 

[Pepper]

I have one of those pointed at 61.5, it works great for that.