BSB minidish

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Oh, nearly forgot, here's my little former DMAC beauty... :D

(yes, I took it while I was in bed...)
 
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Details off the back of the "LNC":

Model: PAC301
Freq. 11, 77-12, 11Ghz
Power: DC20V
Ser. No. 0122582

So, it's an 11Ghz LNB then??? :confused
 
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You must have alot of satellite stuff now 2cv bloke you must spend hours on ebay:)


2cvbloke said:
Details off the back of the "LNC":

Model: PAC301
Freq. 11, 77-12, 11Ghz
Power: DC20V
Ser. No. 0122582

So, it's an 11Ghz LNB then??? :confused
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Rd100 said:
You must have alot of satellite stuff now 2cv bloke you must spend hours on ebay:)
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I am building quite a collection, it's a lot more than what I had a year ago... :D
And yep, I'm an eBayaholic, spend too much time and money on it... :-ohmy
 
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A nice surprise with the BSB minidish yesterday evening. was waving it around seeing what I could find and picked up reasonable strength signals from Hungarian service M2 on Hotbird 3. Not perfect but watchable.

When Ive got a few minutes I will be trying for some digital signals off the high power Hotbird 7A. :)
 
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I have the BSB minidish as well but converted for a 40mm collar feedhorn. It pulls in both 19.2E and 13E here (Not to mention 5W and 1W). I am using a modern 10 euro Maximum SF-10 (0.3d:cool: LNB on it.

Somehow these dishes found their way to Finland as well, I have personally witnessed the exsistence of 4 specimens in very different parts of the country, mine included. Got it from a friend who got it from a friend... can't say at which point the feedholder was modified.

Interesting dish anyway, the ruggedness and overall quality is brilliant. In fact it is the only dish here wifey finds "not-so-ugly".
 
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In Germany I've seen 20cm (or 25cm) dish which was used to pick channels from TVSAT2. It's smaller than BSB-dish.
 
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I spotted another squarial today, have to try to get a pic of it.... :D
 
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Around my area ive spotted two BSB dishes and one squarial, Im often tempted to offer a dish removal service to get one for nostalgia.
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quote=2cvbloke;454850]I spotted another squarial today, have to try to get a pic of it.... :D[/quote]
 
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streetlighter said:
Around my area ive spotted two BSB dishes and one squarial, Im often tempted to offer a dish removal service to get one for nostalgia.
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Just knock on their door, say you're from the NSADSE (National Society Against the Disuse of Satellite Equipment) and would like to claim the squarials or dishes, offering the removal service for free of course... :D

Then sell 'em on eBay.... :-rofl2
 
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I got me a BSB Minidish!!! :D:D:D:D

It's not the squareishial Analoguesat has, it's the round type, but I can't wait to receive it, and see if it picks up anything, like Cuatro on Hispa or Canal+ on 8w (which annoyingly shares the same frequency and Polarisation as France5/Arte on 5w which made my search for 5w a task and a half!!!)... :D
 
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Of course, a picture would be handy... :D

This is the one from the listing (if you haven't seen the listing yourself through the Big Dishes thread...)...
 
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I think it might work well if you make some braket and put a uni lnb on it:) ,
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Of course, a picture would be handy... :D

This is the one from the listing (if you haven't seen the listing yourself through the Big Dishes thread...)...
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I hope it'll arrive tomorrow, so I can play with it before I go to work.... :D
 
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I've got the dish!!! :D

And after comparing it's face to my Porty dish, there's very little difference in size, about 1 or 2cm smaller than the porty, AND it's a Channel Master dish!!! :D

I've removed the original LNB and fitted a temporary LNB with zip ties and it works perfectly as it is... :D

Anyways, piccies!!! :D:D:D
 
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Yep, made in the UK for a UK company... :D

Anyways, I have an idea of how to fit a 40mm clamp to the arm, I just need to work out how to do it all by myself... :D
 
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Al seems good so far 2cv b;oke, did the dish have any user guides to install it with it?
 
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And here's my idea, all I need is a T-shape bracket, 2 long nuts and bolts for the clamp (it's a spare one from my multi-LNB bracket on my 80cm Lidl dish) and 2 short nuts & bolts to hold the bracket to the dish arm, then on goes my spare Lidl LNB and it's done... :D
 
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Rd100 said:
Al seems good so far 2cv b;oke, did the dish have any user guides to install it with it?
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No unfortunately, but there was a sheet with a phone number to call Philips for advice on how to get the best from "Your newly purchased BSB Satellite equipment", and there's an Elevation thing on the side that rivals any modern sky dish... :p :D
 
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