Greetings, all ! I have a 10’ Unimesh dish that I recently acquired and finally got installed, and I am trying to work out what I need to do to use it.
It has a Chaparral C band feedhorn and LNB on it, but I don’t think the LNB is working, since I found the waveguide and feedhorn was full of water. I want to replace it anyway with a Co-Rotor II for C and Ku band since from what I can find, the Unimesh dish is usable for both given the mesh diameter.
What I am hitching on is what gear to use.. I have a GTmedia V8 DVB-S2/S2X reciever that I have used before on a 1.2m dish for Ku-band, and a Chaparral Monterey 100C that I have used in the past for C-band only on a 6’ fiberglass dish.
I know the ultimate answer is to replace the feedhorn with a dual-band like the Co-Rotor II and a DiSeqC 1.2 mover like a Primesat or similar, so I can just use the GTmedia and let it operate the mover, but sinking another $200 into this when I have the Chaparral 100C seems a bit of overkill.
The Monterey 100C moves the dish with ease, and I have serial port control of its operation, which is its big attraction to me keeping it around, but I am lost when it comes to powering the LNBs while getting the signal to the GTmedia; I assume a DiSeqC switch may be the answer but again, the logistics escape me.
Could I somehow connect the C and Ku LNB to a splitter or switch that feeds the Chaparral’s C and Ku inputs, as well as the single input on the GTmedia? Would I need some sort of diode or circuit to prevent backfeed of the LNB power or similar?
Maybe I could get dual feed C and Ku band LNBs, and connect one from each to the Chaparral and let it power the LNB while the other two go to a DiSeqC switch and let the GTmedia control which LNB it recieves from, while the Chaparral moves the jack manually.
Ideas? Or should I just bite the bullet and buy a Primesat mover?
It has a Chaparral C band feedhorn and LNB on it, but I don’t think the LNB is working, since I found the waveguide and feedhorn was full of water. I want to replace it anyway with a Co-Rotor II for C and Ku band since from what I can find, the Unimesh dish is usable for both given the mesh diameter.
What I am hitching on is what gear to use.. I have a GTmedia V8 DVB-S2/S2X reciever that I have used before on a 1.2m dish for Ku-band, and a Chaparral Monterey 100C that I have used in the past for C-band only on a 6’ fiberglass dish.
I know the ultimate answer is to replace the feedhorn with a dual-band like the Co-Rotor II and a DiSeqC 1.2 mover like a Primesat or similar, so I can just use the GTmedia and let it operate the mover, but sinking another $200 into this when I have the Chaparral 100C seems a bit of overkill.
The Monterey 100C moves the dish with ease, and I have serial port control of its operation, which is its big attraction to me keeping it around, but I am lost when it comes to powering the LNBs while getting the signal to the GTmedia; I assume a DiSeqC switch may be the answer but again, the logistics escape me.
Could I somehow connect the C and Ku LNB to a splitter or switch that feeds the Chaparral’s C and Ku inputs, as well as the single input on the GTmedia? Would I need some sort of diode or circuit to prevent backfeed of the LNB power or similar?
Maybe I could get dual feed C and Ku band LNBs, and connect one from each to the Chaparral and let it power the LNB while the other two go to a DiSeqC switch and let the GTmedia control which LNB it recieves from, while the Chaparral moves the jack manually.
Ideas? Or should I just bite the bullet and buy a Primesat mover?
