Greetings From MO.
Hello everyone, I found this site a few months back and decided to join just a little while back. I love just about all things communications and RF related. I have had a HAM radio license since about 1995, and I was an office manager for a small satellite company for a little while.
I found that I was one of those guys who pushed the 18" dishes and tried to convince people to get rid of the BUDs (I never would have if I had known then what I know now). I have quite a bit of old equipment laying around that I would like to use, and I hope to sometime soon begin installing FTA systems for my friends.
I currently have 4 old DN dishes and uncountable #s of D$$ dishes laying around, a Direcway dish and LNB/ Transmitter, a 75cm Primestar dish and 2 LNBs (soon to be my first motorized Ku setup) 2 large metal mesh dishes and a variety of multi-switches, diseq switches and amplifiers. A friend sold me his Neusat SP6000 reciever and I have a few older C-band (and 1 Ku Band receiver I belive it is a Kenwood analog receiver) and I have been digging my trench and laying the ground work for my system.
So far all I have is 3 18" dishes and let me tell you that there is nothing very interesting on the birds I am hitting aside from nasa and some music...I WANT MORE!!!
I look forward to assisting anyone I can and I know I will be asking some questions ALL OVER the forums.
Thanks
John
PS This IS the best LEGIT satellite forum I have found ANYWHERE on the net! Keep up the good work guys!