Which bird?

[Montanaman]

Hi Guys -

I haven't repointed my BUD since Galaxy 18 dropped all it's channels, and I'm wondering what bird you guys are mainly watching -

I'm running a fixed 1.2 meter channelmaster dish, with a linear lnb, and my beloved Coolsat CS6000 -

I can't speak chinese, or arabic, so I'm on the hunt for English speaking channels, and hopefully a network somewhere -

Any advice?

[igoreshka]

you should go for 110/119 birds,cheerz

[dishuser]

you should go for 110/119 birds,cheerz

why?
not much fta to get from them

[igoreshka]

why?
not much fta to get from them
that's why....http://tinypic.com/73cqk9.gif

[dishuser]

that's why....http://tinypic.com/73cqk9.gif

it doesn't cost anything to "pay" attention:tehe:

[jrose]

Hi Guys -

I haven't repointed my BUD since Galaxy 18 dropped all it's channels, and I'm wondering what bird you guys are mainly watching -

I'm running a fixed 1.2 meter channelmaster dish, with a linear lnb, and my beloved Coolsat CS6000 -

I can't speak chinese, or arabic, so I'm on the hunt for English speaking channels, and hopefully a network somewhere -

Any advice?

Yah it was a big loss when G18 dropped a bunch. SES1 at 101w has History and Bio channel standard definition...excellent signal strength for you... there is always something to watch on them, relatively new bird hopefully it gets more in the clear ku.Or retro channels at 83W. If you are gonna use a linear lnb and choose the path of righteousness not alot of English programming (except religious at 97W Galaxy 19). Do some searching on Lyngsat for channels. If your up to a challenge used dish motors are going cheap I noticed.

[satchick]

I like PBS on 125w.... Most of the programming is scattered everywhere... For full time programming, 125 or 101 would be my choice for a fixed dish. There are also other satellites with mainly feeds if that's what you're after...

[jvvh5897]

I swap around a lot. For Ku: 83 for RTV, 101 for Hist. C band for some stuff--try 99 degrees--you can mount a C band lnb on the 1`.2M dish and get some stuff, not everything but 75% or so. But I also watch the non-English stations too even if I don't understand the language--you see some countryside that is interesting. Bible thumpers sometimes have interesting things on because of E/I requirements.

[greggor48]

Maybe a motorized solution will be better but I don't think the channel master 120cm can be motorized although I've seen it done. Ucan buse both C/Ku-Band Feed and get the best of both world.

[satchick]

It's been done, but the dish and motor required some modifications.... It's very hard on the motor as well, since the CM is a heavy dish, you'be better have a STAB 120 to even think about trying it.

[Montanaman]

Thanks guys - I think I'll try 101w - as soon as some of the snow melts anyway.

They were remodeling an old furniture store, and they pulled this dish off the roof when they re-roofed, and put it in the parking lot next to their roll-off dumpster.

I asked their foreman if it was going back up, and he told me to take it, so I disassembled it, and carried it off, and since the paint was fading and almost gone I reprimed it, and painted it, and it works fine. I just had to get a new lnbf - the old channelmaster was cracked, had a bees nest in it, and was for some unknown freq -

[Costactc]

If you have the room, I would recommend a 10' motorised bud with an hd stb, at least 600-650 open channels on my arc on c band.