Recent content by dssnosher

You once had no idea about basics of the parabolic shape as well. Let's not go this route.

1.2 offset will be used for prototyping and testing on KU satellite. No plans for production at all at the moment. We were having beers and I was telling my uncle how difficult it was to come across a large dish and he offered to try it in his shop. I was looking for 300cm when we were...

What's with the hostility? It's a DIY project i'm looking for for inputs but all i'm getting from you is skepticism. Easy up mate. Let me worry about price and everything else please. Cheers.

If dish will be made from aluminum, just metal paint?

My uncle's shop has all heavy machinery to work with steel and aluminum including melting, casting, sheet pressing and bending. All I am paying for is materials. My plan was to try and make 1.2 offset to see how it performs against the one I already have and If all is well we will go for 300cm 6...

Gents, are there any resources online that can guide me on characteristics and diagrams on a C band dish? My uncle owns a metal works shop and he is up to try make satellite dish but he needs drawings for it and a info on what to coat it with. Any help would be appreciated!

Will be testing from top of a 9 storey building which is just short of 30m above the ground.

I just installed a 4m and i am not going back to assembling anything bigger than 1.8m :) Satbeams says that theoretically I am 80km from beam that needs 90cm dish. Leaving aside the line of sight factor, an 1.8 would provide an adequate signal.

Curious if I can receive 100.5 Asiasat 5. Location: 49.836573, 24.183819 Height: 27m above ground Dishpointer says its below the horizon but it assumes ground level reception. I am curious if 27m above ground will have 100.5 above the horizon.

Can't find a weather dome that will fit. The Chinese mesh came with a black one but because of the feed horn and two lnbs it doesn't fit. Any recommendations on a good two way splitter? I was thinking to try the previously mentioned EMP amp. Basically a two way splitter with either side power...

400cm dish, i am not sure what brand it is, no marking on any of the parts. It does look like it was made in the 80s or 90s Using 2x Norsat 3220 LNBs for V and H polarities via what seems to be Chaparral Dual C band feedhorn(no markings but it looks like Chaparral to me) The dish is pointed at...

Looking to split a line into two as Norsat LNBs only have single output and with dual LNBs on market i have either no signal or on the edge of pixelation. Bought a 2x8 passive switch but there seems to be great amount of signal loss. I understand that any splitter will result in signal loss but...

Would cellphone towers have any interference on C band satellite signal reception? Was looking to install a dish in the office's roof but there are two cellphone towers located within 20m of potential installation spot.

Right now the setup consists of 2m dish and a quatro flange c-120 Invacom lnb. The problem is that if the sky isn't cleaр LO band starts to fall off and pixelate. I am outside of the coverage zone. My experience with Norsat is only on C band where it really does wonders. I was curious, is there...

Turns out its clone and i bricked it with a firmware update. Does anyone have same clone model that perhaps can read a flash dump for me to try? Feel like i've ran out of options....:(