old 36" primestar dish and feed, good for anything
WebMonkey
feed/lnb.
is this thing usable for ku band tvro action?
thanks for your time
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KA7...@webtv.net
Hello, If you can find a regular ku band lnb and a receiver like the Pansat
BR-3500 you can aim your 36" dish at satellites like SBS-6 (74 degrees west),
for live news feeds and W1 (103 degrees west) and receive NBC feeds. You
could also buy an lnbf and basic receiver for either DSS (101 degrees west)
or Dishnet (119 degrees west) and have a 36" instead of 18" "mini dish"
system. I have a Pansat BR-3500 receiver, 36" offset feed dish and .9db ku
band lnb with a moveable patio mount. currently it is looking at W1. I do
not know how to make an offset feed dish track like the regular center feed
"big dish"... do you? If all else fails, you at least have a nice dish to
start some PD3 projects if the bird ever flies. Hope this helps you out a
little. 73 de KA7EII, Rocky.
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Tom Elliott
KA7...@webtv.net wrote:
>
> Hello, If you can find a regular ku band lnb
Primestar LNBs -are- regular LNBs - they receive the same frequencies as a Ku LNB
on a big dish system.
Loren Coe
>In article <362BB5...@below.com>,
> WebMonkey <add...@below.com> wrote:
>> i've been given one of the old 36" round primstar dishes with offest
>> feed/lnb.
...> I do >not know how to make an offset feed dish track like the
> regular center feed >"big dish"... do you?
the dish will confuse you somewhat in setting the declination/offset
but it s/b just fine. finding and setting up a polar mount is the
main obstacle.
loren
scott_...@hotmail.com
WebMonkey <add...@below.com> wrote:
> i've been given one of the old 36" round primstar dishes with offest
> feed/lnb.
> KBØWLF
I've been wondering about something similar myself, I made
a run to the dump a while back and found an RCA DSS dish and
amp that someone had thrown out because the rivets in the
arm had broke. Being a satellite scrounger I couldn't help
throwing it in my truck but I haven't figured out what to
do with it. And since my current dish is a Drake/LNA combo (OLD!)
I couldn't even fantasize about Ku. :)
Scott T.
WebMonkey
> > WebMonkey <add...@below.com> wrote:
> >> i've been given one of the old 36" round primstar dishes with offest
> >> feed/lnb.
>
> > regular center feed >"big dish"... do you?
>
> the dish will confuse you somewhat in setting the declination/offset
> but it s/b just fine. finding and setting up a polar mount is the
> main obstacle.
>
> loren
as the original poster, i'm really interested in whether this unit
could be hooked up to a block rcvr or ird etc as is to receive itc
ku band signals?
any ham radio lurkers out there have ideas for implementing these
dishes/feeds on the gig bands?
K Tronics
WebMonkey wrote in message <362CEB...@below.com>...
>as the original poster, i'm really interested in whether this unit
>could be hooked up to a block rcvr or ird etc as is to receive itc
>ku band signals?
>
Yes, it can. You just need to get into the az-el aiming technique, and the
*manual skewing* technique. IMO, you might have better luck aiming it with
some sort of sqwacking dish aiming gizmo. If you happened to own a spectrum
analyzer or better yet, a Satlook you'd really be *in*. Not required,
obviously, but the right tools.......
Jeff
K Tronics
Gary Tait
>
> I've been wondering about something similar myself, I made
> a run to the dump a while back and found an RCA DSS dish and
> amp that someone had thrown out because the rivets in the
> arm had broke. Being a satellite scrounger I couldn't help
> throwing it in my truck but I haven't figured out what to
> do with it. And since my current dish is a Drake/LNA combo (OLD!)
> I couldn't even fantasize about Ku. :)
>
> Scott T.
>
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on a different band ,and use circular polarization.
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through any ku compatible reciever or you can hook it to a digital
reciever. the lnb is actually an lnbf with 2 seperate outputs one for each
polarity. Nbc has feeds on GE1 ku and Sbs6 is full of news feeds. Enjoy
WebMonkey <add...@below.com> wrote in article <362BB5...@below.com>...
> i've been given one of the old 36" round primstar dishes with offest
> feed/lnb.
>
> is this thing usable for ku band tvro action?
>
> thanks for your time