You're welcome to use whatever justifications you need, but what you'll get probably isn't worth the dollars and effort to install a C band horn. Setting up a 1.2m dish is the same regardless of the band.
Used 1.2 m dish. Worth it?
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Hold my beer. You haven't met me yet Victoria I am probely the only around here that picked up a 9/10 fec ABC feeds on a 4 foot dish when they boosted the power on the satellite. I am Mr. Minibud around here nice to meet you. You can't get much from 97w to 105w because of the interference issue.
Buy what you can afford numb i am a cheap bastard looking for good deals.I'll spend my money how I like you can spend yours how you like. Deal?
Lesea are 99w, well worth going after. Luken are 87w, and you won't get those on anything less than a 7.5 footer.
99w Lesea channels are very easy to pick up on a 1.2 meter dish.
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Roy Rogers, Lassie, Perry Mason, The Lone Ranger, Sergeant Preston of the Mounties, I Dream Of Jeanie, Bewitched, Mary Tyler Moore, Matlock, TJ Hooker, Heartland (Canadian series, really good) Mad about you, Just Shoot Me, Maude, Barney Miller, and much, much more
By the way, if you put the Andrew on a polar mount, get one made for at least a 6 foot dish, AND you must tilt the TOP down by about 23~ degrees. There are a few posts around here from people that have done it, and look them up as it's well worth doing.
Yes, but FREE.
Yes, but FREE.
OK, that's it...if I can get Sergeant Preston of the Mounties on 1.2m dish C-band then damn the wife, I'm getting one!
I LOVE that series! I also watch Lassie (they've come around to the Forest Ranger years right now), Perry Mason, and the Lone Ranger.
IF you use the Channel Master/Andrews dish for C-band, contact Rima, and see if he'll sell you his special C-band feed mount he makes. It's well worth getting instead of making your own. This dish has side feed arms that will interfere with using a conical scalar, and you need to compensate for that. His method is very elegant, and much less work to install.
I don't know, but that dish is very expensive. Shipping alone doubles it's price. Unless you have a way to pick it up from their warehouse, it's a very pricey way to go.
The positives to the GSP 1.2M are:
1. No modification necessary to mount on a USALS HH motor compared to needing to adapt a CM to a polar mount and only use DiSEqC 1.2.
2. If using for a mini-bud, C-band feedhorn and conical scalar mounts with the available GSP 65mm metal clamp compared to customizing your own clamp for the CM.
From someone who owns and uses both the CM and the GSP 1.2m, for a fixed mount I wouldn't hesitate installing the CM. For motorized, I would personally choose the GSP.
1. No modification necessary to mount on a USALS HH motor compared to needing to adapt a CM to a polar mount and only use DiSEqC 1.2.
2. If using for a mini-bud, C-band feedhorn and conical scalar mounts with the available GSP 65mm metal clamp compared to customizing your own clamp for the CM.
From someone who owns and uses both the CM and the GSP 1.2m, for a fixed mount I wouldn't hesitate installing the CM. For motorized, I would personally choose the GSP.
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