I'll look for a Primestar antenna. At this point I have 3 dishes on a diseq switch with one vacant input. Are there switches that handle more than 4 inputs?
Stephen Smith wrote: > ACtually, the LNBs on the primestar will also work as that was linear. > The > only thing is that most of those primestar dishes have two feeds from the > LNBs. One is vertical and one is horizontal. But a good diseq switch will > work great with an FTA receiver. Just scan both positions on the > switch and > you'll have the whole satellite covered. > > There are still some in people's yards that they will gladly give away to > have them removed. > > Steve > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shawn Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:Shawn95GT%40gmail.com>> > To: <[email protected] <mailto:TVRO%40yahoogroups.com>> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:14 PM > Subject: Re: [TVRO] Expand the view > > > I'd go for 30" or larger. The shipping gets expensive as you approach > > 36"+. A 48" would probably be approaching overkill. Bigger is better > > for the tight spacing sats, especially G10R with 121 (Echo 9) blaring > > in next door. Here in the west I've done G10R just fine with a 26x36 > > Primestar Oval dish. > > > > Shawn > > > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Richard A. Keirstead > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:rkeirstead%40citcom.net>> wrote: > >> I'd like to use my FTA receiver to take a peak at Ku on satellite AMC 3 > >> (87 degrees West) and Galaxy 10R (123 degrees West). Any hope I can do > >> this with an 18 to 20" dish? If not, does anyone have a suggestion what > >> size dish I should try? I am in North Carolina, USA. My largest dish is > >> 8', but is C band only at this point. Suggestions, please. Budget is > >> tight. > >
