Wave Frontier Toroidal T-90 Satellite Dish

[buck12]

have you ever tried picking up the atlantic birds with your T90. I was wondering with the second reflector if you could get enough signal strength from those sats. Do you know where you kind find the polarity of the atlantic birds. There is proably somebody pullling the altantic birds on here with some kind of dish. I'm in VA and according to lyng sat I'm still in the area to be able receive a signal. It would be nice to be able to pull everything horizon to horizon. I haven't rounded up all my parts to put my T 90 up yet. How many lnbfs do you have on it now. Any problems in running that many lnbfs with your receiver.

[Iceberg]

have you ever tried picking up the atlantic birds with your T90.

being in MN and where the dish is mounted, my LOS cuts out at 61. On my roof (the motorized is there) the LOS stops around 50 so I can't check.

I was wondering with the second reflector if you could get enough signal strength from those sats.

as long as there is a footprint to the US< it will work

Do you know where you kind find the polarity of the atlantic birds. There is proably somebody pullling the altantic birds on here with some kind of dish.

www.lyngsat.com has the info

I'm in VA and according to lyng sat I'm still in the area to be able receive a signal.

as long as there is a footprint this way, it should work

It would be nice to be able to pull everything horizon to horizon.

you would need more than one for atlantic & the rest. the T90 only has a 40 degree arc

How many lnbfs do you have on it now.

11 total
72,74,79,83,85,89,93,97,103 for FTA
107.3 & 111.1 for StarChoice subsription.

It is possible to get 2 degree spacing on the ends of the bar but not in the middle.

Any problems in running that many lnbfs with your receiver.

not really. The max I can do is 8 (a diseqc 4x1 with a 22k on each input)

[Iceberg]

Since it has been nice here in MN (40 today which is balmy) this past weekend I decided to tweak the T90 and add a couple more LNB's. Also wanted to test the limits of some of the 2 degree issues that the T90 has. Technically they say you can't get 2 degrees due to the brackets and the LNB size. Well, I wanted to see if how well I could do 2 degrees.

At the time the dish was aimed at 89 center and LNB's on 72,74,79,85,89,93,97,103,107

But I wanted more

So I moved the dish to 93 (which is my true south) and made sure 74 looked good. Adding 72 to 74 is real easy for me. Just put the holder on and make the LNB's touch. Most of what is on 72 I get. Not as strong as the motorized, but good enough to work. Then I slid down the LNB holder for 79. Then I added a holder to see if I could get 83/85. Locked 85 down strong (thank goodness for test cards) and wedged 83 there too. That is BOOMING. I had 89 & 93 but there hasnt been much on 89 latelly and alot more on 91. So can I get 91/93? Locked 93 in and twisted the LNB holder and bam. the test card on 91 at 80 on the Pansat

Slid 97 into place and I figured "well 101 is so dang strong I can get it with a smaller dish, so I can surely get the strong stuff with it offset". So I aaimed the LNB at 103 and tuned that (including the oddball offset) and locked down. 101 I barely moved and the strogn stuff was at 99. Even RTPi, which is weaker is at 60.

Added 107.3 & 111.1 for my Starchoice sub. Then added 119 for the audio. This took some tweaking as it was off the bar. Found an old piece of trim and cut and bolted to the arm (I had drilled a hole in the slide scale) and had to rig a bracket (I just cut the bottom of the holder off). Nice 90 on all TP's

So now I have 13 LNB's
72,74,79,83,85,91,93,97,101,103,107.3,111.1,119

I have a couple LNB's mixed on the switches. I put 72 V & 119 H together (most audio on Dish is on H polarity) and mixed 101 V & 103 H together. Just have to hook up the cables from the 4x1 diseqcs into the house.

1st picture is the whole thing
2nd pic is 101/103 (I had to shave a little off the plastic cap for 101
3rd shows the "Extension" for 119
4th is from 72 going down the line
5th shows 91 & 93

[Sadoun]

Very nice pictures and great setup. It doesn't look like you had to shave a lot of material of the LNBFs to get them close together.

[Iceberg]

101 was the only one so far. 91/93 worked great (it might have to do with being almost dead centre...93 is my centre one)

I might have to shave off some to try and get 89/91/93

[dancuban]

hi goldberg nice pictures if i must say so. i'm new to this forum but i've been testing for about a year now. i read about the t90 some time ago an i was interested in getting one, now that i read your post an seen your setting and pics, i'm going to get a t90 for myself to see what more sats i can add to me list. keep up the good work.

[Pansatpro]

Ice your dish is cool... I want one too! But Sadoun seems to be out of stock. I guess everyone liked your dish so much they all bought one too. Hope they get some more soon.

[vze59zgb]

So all and all I am very happy with the dish. Other than the obstacles I had aiming it I had fun, learned a lot, and now can watch various satellites with only one dish

I still love the fact I can put 10 LNB's on one dish without compramizing signal

nice set up ice got g 10 here in new jersey 33 winegard dish
signals very good 75 89. have 3 receivers and 3 dishes 36 got them from sadoun t7 25 also good signal running through switches very fast changing . that set up you did is great lots of luck to you pete.

[Pansatpro]

I found myself a T-90 and put most of it together. I want to install in to the side of my TV Tower next to the house so I’ve been working on fabricating a solid mount system... this dish does have some good weight to it! This is my tower... the T-90 will mount to it just above the roof line.

[dst1000]

So when will Sadoun have the T90 back in stock?? If not who has them CHEAP $$$