Toroidal dishes and multi lnbf's

elgemcdlf · #1 (**permalink**) 11-19-2006, 08:31 PM

I am thinking about ditching the motor in favor of a couple Toroidal dishes. Main advantage I see is no wait for dish to move. Here is my dilema. How do I connect all these lnbf's to the receiver? As I understand Iceberg's install he is using multiple receivers. I am going to want to hit every sat between 30 and 129 Ku with the exception of the Echo birds. I believe this will take 2 of the T90 dishes if I am correct and roughly 100 lnbf's

Seriously though it will take many of the little suckers.

William Eng · #2 (**permalink**) 11-21-2006, 10:51 AM

I noticed a post at satelliteguys.com. He was converting his stationary dish to torroidal-like by attaching a curved piece of metal at the end of the arm and hanging multiple LNBs off it. It might be something fun to try

William Eng · #3 (**permalink**) 11-21-2006, 05:07 PM

How about this idea? I would if Sadoun might want to consider carrying something like this.

http://www.vantage-digital.com/eng/d.../vantage4.html

Iceberg · #4 (**permalink**) 11-21-2006, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by elgemcdlf

I am thinking about ditching the motor in favor of a couple Toroidal dishes. Main advantage I see is no wait for dish to move. Here is my dilema. How do I connect all these lnbf's to the receiver? As I understand Iceberg's install he is using multiple receivers. I am going to want to hit every sat between 30 and 129 Ku with the exception of the Echo birds. I believe this will take 2 of the T90 dishes if I am correct and roughly 100 lnbf's

Seriously though it will take many of the little suckers.

You can use 1 receiver but the issue is the arc. Its only 40 degrees. So if you put 30 in the mix, that cuts off most of the arc

Also, the LNB's cant be closer than 3 degrees. It is possible to get 2 at the ends but you'd have to skip every other spot (93, 97, 101 etc)

I have 9 LNB's (72,74,79,83,85,89,93,97,103) for FTA + 107.3 & 111.1 for SC subscription on mine. 93 is the centre because that is my TS so I didnt have to skew the dish

elgemcdlf · #5 (**permalink**) 11-22-2006, 01:13 PM

Well number of dishes isn't really my concern. Hooking up all the lnbf's to one receiver is where I am stumped. If it takes 4 dishes it would take 4 dishes. Start with one and use the motorized until I had that one all dialed in and then work my way around the arc. So skipping every other sat would mean 4 dishes but I still have the problem of all the lnbf's