my mini bud :-)

[xilbus]

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Hey guys, got to play around with the dish allot today. I changed the position of the side arms down, this gives me more room to play with the scalars. I found that i get better signal with the lnb flush with the 1st step of the conical scalar.
With this i now get 61 c-band channels on 91w. reelz comes in strong and i now get the 3800 H tp that has the FX channels ,big ten and a ppv and alt channels :-)

now i want to go back out and put the flat scalar on.

[xilbus]

I tried to push back completely the lnb and put the conical scalar back to the edge and i lost about 10 to 12% on 91w. same for the flat scalar i tried many positions and the max i got with the flat was 60% on 3720 H on 91w. So i had to go back to having the conical and having the lnb flush with the 1st step.

[brotherstores]

Stupid question here for most all of you...

What receiver are you using?

[xilbus]

its not a stupid question at all, you cant know all of the receivers out there. I have a openbox S9.

[xilbus]

another picture, this is disney xd ITC

[jvvh5897]

I got to playing too, moved dish to point at 118.8 and got what looks like some of the old Equity channels on the only C band TP lyngsat lists--signal is right at the noise level but drop outs are not that bad. A couple of channels have good stuff for me and the trees in that direction may not grow to block the sight line for a year or two.

[Terryl]

Nice photos Xilbus, here is a hint, try a small piece of electrical tape over the flash on the camera and get a bit closer to the TV, this will avoid the flash back on the photos.

And some cameras have a function to turn the flash off, the TV will provide enough light.

[xilbus]

sorry Terry my wife is the pro with the camera lol but ill try next time :-) you guys should post some pictures too :-)

[xilbus]

I got to playing too, moved dish to point at 118.8 and got what looks like some of the old Equity channels on the only C band TP lyngsat lists--signal is right at the noise level but drop outs are not that bad. A couple of channels have good stuff for me and the trees in that direction may not grow to block the sight line for a year or two.

what receiver are you using? 118.8 has some great c-band channels that are receivable with a small dish. theres a virgin island mux nbc,mytv,cw, cox sports and juwel tv in HD for the wifes lol.
Napalm those trees hehe

[jvvh5897]

I generally use a coolsat 4000 pro clone, but blind search with another box since that cs4k does not have the feature. I've tried other boxes with the minibud, but I don't seem to get any better result with them (some have slightly different meter readings and maybe higher noise levels but none really do any better with getting signal out of the noise).

I don't think the 118.8 bird has a Virgin Is mux--think that is on 99 degrees, 118.8 gets Fusion Comm mux w/ indiana CW, wyoming MeTV, vasvision and univision and some odd sports channel, also on bird is Cox louisiana sports channel (sometimes collage games, sometimes ESPN) and JeweryTV in sd and hd

[chifut]

Hi maybe stupid question,but I never playd with C band before.
.What setting have to input in the box?
LNBtype-?
LNB freq-?

Ihave Cband dual LNBF
Input freq 3.4~4.2GHz
Output freq.950~1750MHz
..and 4 foot FortecStar dish
..and viewsat ultra,openbox in Florida

[Costactc]

Lnb type would be as normal- single and your input frequency is 5150. You will pick up the strong tp with a 4' dish, I'm also using a 6' mesh on c band as well as the bud.

[chifut]

Thanks Costa .Ill go to play outside with the dish .lol

[Costactc]

Good Luck bud, try the religious tp on Galaxy 17 at 91w- very strong signal.

[chifut]

Yep .You are right Costa.That was easy On 91W:
..Igot TP 3920H26000 with 65% Q
..TP 4014H6620 -40%Q
TP 3820V30000-70%Q-all chs .scramble..
Idon't wana hijack Xilbus 's thread anymore ,so thanks everybody..