H180, 6foot dish, C&Ku Analog, DVB & DCII

[Ski5010]

Ok i tried to move the dish for my Pansat but came to find out or remeber is that the dish will only move so many clicks one way or the other and apparently is not enough.Any ideaa without canceling my 922 sat setups?

[pmb1010]

I have no trouble once I get lined up on C band, the plus or minus 10 clicks you get for fine tuning is way more than enough to dial in the FTA receiver. If you're moving past that much, you've got something wrong I suspect.

By the way, you can get past that adjustment by using the "adjust satellite" (or something like that) allows more movement than the fine tune.

Or, you can use the spare slot 922 satellites to put in a few FTA based locations.

[Ski5010]

Ok ill try that Thank you

[pmb1010]

As I wait (an eternity, it seems - he didnt show up scheduled appt) for the tree guy to come here and help me clear my view of the arc, even though I'm having a blast with this 6 foot dish and C band.

Now that I have 920, I get to scan both digital DCII and analog signals and with the C band cable split, I get digital C band, too.

Been spending a lot of time on some free DCII that recently went back scrambled (some discovery channels), and I think the channel I've been hanging around most is ARTS channel on G1/5. What a great station. To see Andre Segovia on the guitar is simply an amazement.

What a difference it was going from 4 foot to 6 foot.
This new H180 motor and 6 foot combo is a real winner for the hobbiest.

So no real news, just scanning around, watching what I can. G10R/Ku on the BSC621 is great too with this dish. Wife thinks I'm nuts. "What, Mission Impossible again"? Yeah...

[wejones]

Been spending a lot of time on some free DCII that recently went back scrambled (some discovery channels), and I think the channel I've been hanging around most is ARTS channel on G1/5. What a great station. To see Andre Segovia on the guitar is simply an amazement.
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Yeah, I really like that classic arts channel too. It really has a broad spectrum of things it shows, some very old and some very new.
I used to watch it on G1 (G15) , but I can only get that in the winter, PLUS, being analog, it isn't as easy to record things I like. It used to be that there was a FTA version on G26-ku, and it still occasionally shows up FTA, but not very often, and not very long. However they run 2 or 3 1 or 2 hour segments of the Classic Arts channel on AMC5 on the NYN channel, I think it's the 2nd or 3rd channel in the mux with all the scrambled racing channels. I often record these to .mpg files, then edit out the stuff I don't like, and create little music videos out of the stuff I do like. Excellent stuff.
It has caused me to buy several DVDs to get more of the good stuff.

[pmb1010]

Tree guy called today to say tomorrow morning for the job.

[elgemcdlf]

As I wait (an eternity, it seems - he didnt show up scheduled appt) for the tree guy to come here and help me clear my view of the arc, even though I'm having a blast with this 6 foot dish and C band...What a difference it was going from 4 foot to 6 foot.
This new H180 motor and 6 foot combo is a real winner for the hobbiest. ...

If going to 6' got you this excited just imagine what 8 or 10 would do I think you are hooked. Pretty soon we will be reading about the 21' dish you just found & ...

[pmb1010]

yeah you got that right.
I got a good view of a lot of the arc now.

The small pieces a guy at work is going to use for firewood.
The 2 long 12 foot hunks I'm going to dry for a year, and make a table or something out of it.

tree remnants:

[rainman]

that looks like quite a bit of firewood someone should be warm this winter.LOL

[ayelvington]

I really appreciate you sharing your experience with this install since I'll be doing the same soon in NW Pennsylvania.

I have a comment/question. Have you had any strong winds since you did the install? The web page for the motor pretty clearly states that the combined load factor can't be too high or it will damage the motor. I'm going to have to deal with both snow and wind at my location and am looking ahead on that. RSVP al