[rainman]

Originally Posted by messinwu

Hmm, well THANK YOU all for your responses. The dish is on the side of my house next to the attached garage. So maybe it would be feasible to have the GBOX located inside the garage so those four cables only have a short distance to run, and the signal cable will run all the way to the other side of my house to the receiver. So when I need to move the dish, I'd go out to the garage. Is that practical? I mean, not having it connected to any receiver? Or will that not work at all?

Basically, I don't want to buy a ribbon cable since I already have so much RG6. But what I'm understanding is that I would need four wires going to the VBOX and then my usual coax to the LNB, correct? I have quite a bit of CAT5 cable as well, so I think perhaps I could run the whole distance with that for the VBOX to positioner connections. I would never have thought of that!

All of my equipment is DVB, so I think I should be okay with the LNB I ordered, at least for now. I found some pretty good tutorials online of how to set up the polar mount to be aimed correctly, looks like it's best to start out calibrating on Ku satellites. I think I'll start on 97w.

there is a place wher you can buy just the motor wire all packaged in one conduit. PM me and I will let you know where I got mine.I think it was around 39 cents per foot.