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Earth Station Fisty - February 2016
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<blockquote data-quote="Fisty McB" data-source="post: 962989" data-attributes="member: 389824"><p>Thanks for all the feedback folks, I've only just realised how horrible my spelling and grammar was in those posts! That'll teach me to type up long posts when half tired.</p><p></p><p>The idea for the dishes being close together came from <a href="https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/three-old-dishes-15-lnbs-five-switches-and-a-lot-of-cable.150325/" target="_blank">this thread</a> from whom I though had a nice & tidy set up covering a wide arc of popular satellites. The idea for using the car tyre came from reading about Analoguesat's experiences when he got his first dish to experiment with! The idea for the threaded bars came from seeing another photo (I don't know if it was here or elsewhere) of someone doing the same for their multi-LNB set up.</p><p></p><p>Altogether the costs have been kept minimal where possible, the most expensive item there is the 1.2 metre dish which I bought from an online retailer in the Irish Republic - similar dishes from Britain could be bought cheaper but the shipping costs to Northern Ireland from all such retailers at the time were eye watering, whereas the cost of shipping from across the border added to the dish's cost worked out cheaper. Aside from the Inverto Black Ultra's, plus the Alps narrow LNBs that were about £7 each shipped from Germany, all the LNBs used cost £5 or less. The 16/1 switch was bought on eBay after the old 10/1 switch got water ingress back in October. Unfortunately I haven't really got contacts available locally for getting cheap second-hand bits like old scrap dishes that are still usable, LNBs etc. so shopping around online has been a work in progress over the last two years, the patch leads between the LNBs and the Diseqc switch are reused where possible. Overall the total cost is a fair bit, but in terms of what you could spend on many other potential hobbies, it's not a huge amount for what you get out of it.</p><p></p><p>I've certainly learned a lot from experimenting with fixed multi-lnb set ups and also from working with the USALS motorised set up over the past couple of years, and even before then when I did a few experiments with the Zone 2 minidish that could pick up 53E! Like many other things it's always best to know how to walk before you even try to run; start with a minidish for 28E, then use it or something similar (60cm) again to try for 19E & 13E - try adding a second LNB to learn about the offsets needed for multi-lnb reception, and then find when you try to add a third one it's not as easy as you might assume at first. Overall it's about learning, experience, and reading/listening to others whom have done similar work. But don't think it is completely impossible unless the arc is completely blocked for you! Family and friends have came and looked at my set up thinking it's OTT, not that I can blame them but there are days I don't even watch TV! I fooled an aunt of mine into thinking that I had the dishes set up to listen to encrypted Ministry of Defence satellite communications. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/38389100.lol.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":-lol" title="Laugh Out Loud :-lol" data-shortname=":-lol" /></p><p></p><p>Also many of the regulars here have been great with talking about their set ups and what knowledge they can share. Thank you all!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fisty McB, post: 962989, member: 389824"] Thanks for all the feedback folks, I've only just realised how horrible my spelling and grammar was in those posts! That'll teach me to type up long posts when half tired. The idea for the dishes being close together came from [URL='https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/three-old-dishes-15-lnbs-five-switches-and-a-lot-of-cable.150325/']this thread[/URL] from whom I though had a nice & tidy set up covering a wide arc of popular satellites. The idea for using the car tyre came from reading about Analoguesat's experiences when he got his first dish to experiment with! The idea for the threaded bars came from seeing another photo (I don't know if it was here or elsewhere) of someone doing the same for their multi-LNB set up. Altogether the costs have been kept minimal where possible, the most expensive item there is the 1.2 metre dish which I bought from an online retailer in the Irish Republic - similar dishes from Britain could be bought cheaper but the shipping costs to Northern Ireland from all such retailers at the time were eye watering, whereas the cost of shipping from across the border added to the dish's cost worked out cheaper. Aside from the Inverto Black Ultra's, plus the Alps narrow LNBs that were about £7 each shipped from Germany, all the LNBs used cost £5 or less. The 16/1 switch was bought on eBay after the old 10/1 switch got water ingress back in October. Unfortunately I haven't really got contacts available locally for getting cheap second-hand bits like old scrap dishes that are still usable, LNBs etc. so shopping around online has been a work in progress over the last two years, the patch leads between the LNBs and the Diseqc switch are reused where possible. Overall the total cost is a fair bit, but in terms of what you could spend on many other potential hobbies, it's not a huge amount for what you get out of it. I've certainly learned a lot from experimenting with fixed multi-lnb set ups and also from working with the USALS motorised set up over the past couple of years, and even before then when I did a few experiments with the Zone 2 minidish that could pick up 53E! Like many other things it's always best to know how to walk before you even try to run; start with a minidish for 28E, then use it or something similar (60cm) again to try for 19E & 13E - try adding a second LNB to learn about the offsets needed for multi-lnb reception, and then find when you try to add a third one it's not as easy as you might assume at first. Overall it's about learning, experience, and reading/listening to others whom have done similar work. But don't think it is completely impossible unless the arc is completely blocked for you! Family and friends have came and looked at my set up thinking it's OTT, not that I can blame them but there are days I don't even watch TV! I fooled an aunt of mine into thinking that I had the dishes set up to listen to encrypted Ministry of Defence satellite communications. :-lol Also many of the regulars here have been great with talking about their set ups and what knowledge they can share. Thank you all! [/QUOTE]
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