Well, as you’ve heard “What’s old is new” I decided to see if I could get any C-Band channels on my 1 meter by .7-meter dish. After searching this site and Sadouns’ forum I found the following links, which add so much to the story.
There is interesting reading from others as well as pictures of their work with C-Band and the Primestar 84E dish.
This post puts most of it in one place to tie things together. Also I have posted photos of my own project.
After a couple days of construction and fabrication, yesterday I put the new LNBF and Holder on the dish. I had taken the old arm and LNB support to use as a pattern for the new holder. I made sure that the LNBF would be situated in the best focus of the dish. I did allow for additional adjustment for the new LNBF. Precise dish to LNBF measurements were taken and then checked against the new holder and aperture. I also made PVC pipe bushings from 1 ½” and 2” pipe. This adapted the Stab 40 mm dish tube to the 2 5/16” dish bracket. I have inverted the bracket to adapt it to the motor.
Last night I enjoyed a whole evening of C-Band programming, well worth the enjoyment I get out of this hobby. I have just started tweaking and balancing the setup. I don’t know how many channels I will get but the few strong channels I get are enjoyable. I attached some screen shots from last night.
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Primestar 84E with BSC621-2 LNBF Twinhan 1025 HDTV PCI card, Stab H-H Motor. ProgDVB
Lovin C-Band on my Primestar 84E
Satcom, Nice clever setup. Please keep us informed of all the stations you are able to receive. I finally got my 6 ft dish with the same LNB setup a few weeks ago... It does get some great channels.. I like 89, 91, and 107.3, and BBC world news which I think it is on 121.
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VA 39N, 78W, Mercury II, Fortec 31", 36", 72", SG2100, DG-280, H180 (two DSR-922's sitting in a closet and to be the next project) HDTV TV with no pay tv.
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