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[rid0617]

I was talking to a friend near me who said a 36 dish could receive some C band signals off strong birds but I needed an LNB that would receive both signals and that my Pansat 2800 would translate the difference. Anyone know what kind of LNB would receive both? Thanks.

[pmb1010]

this one:
BSC621-2 C KU Band Prime Focus LNBF

it will work very poorly on a 36" dish. You will be very disappointed in performance.

[wejones]

I was talking to a friend near me who said a 36 dish could receive some C band signals off strong birds but I needed an LNB that would receive both signals and that my Pansat 2800 would translate the difference. Anyone know what kind of LNB would receive both? Thanks.

I know that there are opposite opinions on this, but my opinion is that you would be wasting your time. I don't think that there are any "strong birds" that you can see from your location. Ie there are some strong C-band sats visible to places like eastern Europe, but the sats over the US are not particularly strong, and also they are so closely spaced that a 36" dish can't separate out the signals from the adjacent sats.
I'm sure that there might be a few signals that you could see (probably low SR signals that don't have any similar signals on adjacent sats), but I think your only hope to have a reasonable chance on most transponders would be for reception on sats over the atlantic that aren't at 2 degree spacing on C-band with respect to transponders beamed toward the US.
Also, the feedhorns used for C-band aren't really suited for mounting on a 36" dish. If you were just interested in experimenting, and didn't mind spending money and having a low probability of getting results, then sure, go ahead and try. I've been thinking of trying myself. But I think that it wouldn't be fair for anyone to make a recommendation that this is really something that has much chance of success. Just look at the trouble that people have finding Ku signals with a 36" dish, and consider that C-band signals will be about 4 times weaker, at least (about 3 times based on the size of the dish, plus the fact that the C-band sats aren't as powerful as the Ku sats, plus the fact that the feedhorn isn't well matched to the 36" dishes.



just my opinion.

[rainman]

I am in agreement with Bill on this one a 36" dish for c band would be a waste of money and a big disappointment if you truely want c band then you would need to go with a 6' dish minium and 8.5' dish would be even better.IMHO.

[rid0617]

Thank you much for replies. I'm trying to work around covenants. Sounds like it was bad information.