"Al Patrick" wrote in message
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Try it. You'll find something you like on the radio and TV.

Al


I wish I could, but I'm stuck in an apartment for the time being. Still, I
find the subject interesting. I remember listening to the satellite
hobbyist program that WRNO ran about 10 years ago, and it did seem rather
like SWLing. Seems most of them were using steerable 8 to 10 foot dishes.
The prices were more than I wanted to pay, but within the reach of a
dedicated hobbyist. I think you mentioned the dish can be aimed at other
satellites. How much trouble is that?

Frank Dresser

Frank Dresser wrote:

"Al Patrick" wrote in message
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Try it. You'll find something you like on the radio and TV.

Al




I wish I could, but I'm stuck in an apartment for the time being. Still, I
find the subject interesting. I remember listening to the satellite
hobbyist program that WRNO ran about 10 years ago, and it did seem rather
like SWLing. Seems most of them were using steerable 8 to 10 foot dishes.
The prices were more than I wanted to pay, but within the reach of a
dedicated hobbyist. I think you mentioned the dish can be aimed at other
satellites. How much trouble is that?

Frank Dresser

Basically you'd just have to learn the location of the other satellite
and put it on that one instead of Telstar 5. I'm sure there are
activators available for these 30" dishes, but this came fixed so you
could hear the Overcomer only! :-)

It's a Winegard dish. http://www.winegard.com (1-800-288-8094) and
click on residential. Then go to the bottom of the curve and click on
Multisat. Of course there's plenty of other info for mobiles, etc.

Better still, go directly to http://www.winegard.com/home/multi.htm and
see something interesting. They use a 46cm dish instead of the 76cm
dish. Then they put triple LNB's (? LNBF's) on the same mount. So it
appears they *MAY* just offset the LNB to point toward the second and
third satellite instead of actually moving the dish. The deflection
angle would make the difference!

I would have expected ONE LNB and an actuator, like the older C band
units had. Perhaps two reasons for not using that method, if such is
the case. 1) Cut down on wear and tear of the moving parts. 2)
Incompatible signals coming from the different satellites may require a
different type of LNB / LNBF.

Al