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Old 12-28-2006, 05:34 PM
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yes I am - I have it on my Fortec 120cm dish, motorized with HH120.

It works OK. It gets everything the 80cm dish did on Ku, so no gain there.

But I did add an Analog C/Ku receiver - GI 650i, which I'm running off the "IF Out" of the back of the Fortec Ultra.
This gives me the ability to move the dish using USALS on the Ultra.

I can pick up 25 or 30 extra channels I would not get otherwise. There are some strong C band digital signals, the CW stations as an example come in pretty good. Canada weather channel on Anik F1 (or F2). Probably more if I put some serious thought into it and counted them up.

On the GI, there are a few analog C band stations I can pick up. They come in pretty good. A couple sparklies, but watchable. There are feeds during the day for CBS (Oprah, a few of the Judge type shows) and Fox (was watching "that 70's show" this afternoon).

All in all, I'm happy I put up the bigger dish with this C/Ku LNB. Finding the feed stations on C band is interesting, but I'd say for sure that C band like this is defintely hobbiest only. I can tell there are stations I cannot get because the dish is too small.
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