Big dish w/C & KU band LNB, what won't I get?

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I just got a Fortec receiver for FTA reception using my C/KU lnb's.
Is there anything I *won't* be able to receive with this setup? Will
getting a small dish lnb gain me anything? ie: DISH or DTV free
channels? Thanks

 

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if you have c band lnbs and they're pointed at the right sat then you should
be able to get dish, dont think you can get directTv with a fortec as
DirectTV isnt DVB/nagravision.

check www.lyngsat.com for sat positions, 110, 119 are dish

"Mark Anson" <mark@ansonville.com> wrote in message
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> I just got a Fortec receiver for FTA reception using my C/KU lnb's.
> Is there anything I *won't* be able to receive with this setup? Will
> getting a small dish lnb gain me anything? ie: DISH or DTV free
> channels? Thanks
>

 

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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 06:15:22 GMT, "G"
<nospamepleaseandthankyou@hotmail.com> wrote:

>if you have c band lnbs and they're pointed at the right sat then you should
>be able to get dish, dont think you can get directTv with a fortec as
>DirectTV isnt DVB/nagravision.
>

Nagravision has nothing to do with free channels from Dishnet and FTA
receivers either. I you are thinking of al7bar, that is theft
software.

>check www.lyngsat.com for sat positions, 110, 119 are dish
>
>"Mark Anson" <mark@ansonville.com> wrote in message
>news:5ce9d0963ltud330vnmc95t1vhmhbc19k1@4ax.com...
>> I just got a Fortec receiver for FTA reception using my C/KU lnb's.
>> Is there anything I *won't* be able to receive with this setup? Will
>> getting a small dish lnb gain me anything? ie: DISH or DTV free
>> channels? Thanks
>>
>

 

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> Will
>getting a small dish lnb gain me anything? ie: DISH or DTV free
>channels?
The music channels on Dish and the Canadian are not scrambled, but you
need a circularly polarized LNB. I got my little dishes and LNBs from
Ebay.

 

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Thanks for the info. I've read elsewhere that some just strap a DSS
LNB to the side of the feedhorn of their big dish with good results.
Doesn't seem like that would be effective though, doesn't it have to
be properly centered, etc?

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:38:58 GMT, cwmorrow@gbronline.com (Wayne
Morrow) wrote:
>> Will
>>getting a small dish lnb gain me anything? ie: DISH or DTV free
>>channels?

>The music channels on Dish and the Canadian are not scrambled, but you
>need a circularly polarized LNB. I got my little dishes and LNBs from
>Ebay.
>

 

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Mark Anson <mark@ansonville.com> wrote in
news:2jand05818ngi9lg67thc5g5306msje1bo@4ax.com:

> I've read elsewhere that some just strap a DSS
> LNB to the side of the feedhorn of their big dish with good results.
> Doesn't seem like that would be effective though, doesn't it have to
> be properly centered, etc?

+++++++++++++

This technique works great. I used it back in the C-band days to
accomodate a Ku-LNB and I have been using it with FTA small dishes now
for some time.

It would probably be measureably better with a spherical dish but it
works great with a parabolic dish also.

If I remember correctly there is a huge research dish located down in
Puerto Rico that is so large that it cannot be physically moved. It is
aimed by moving the receiving device (LNBF) along on suspended rails
above it.

PON

 

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neat!

there is a dish on the market called the superdish, t-55 and t-90 that works
on a somewhat similar approach I think, it allows for up to 5 lnbs and
addition to the main dish has a reflector dish. I dont have mine yet but
I'm thinking it also has a rail for the lnbs to move as desired.

"Pseud O. Nym" <pon@blurry-vision.com> wrote in message
news:Xns95135BB7BC61Eblurryvision@24.93.43.121...
> Mark Anson <mark@ansonville.com> wrote in
> news:2jand05818ngi9lg67thc5g5306msje1bo@4ax.com:
>
> > I've read elsewhere that some just strap a DSS
> > LNB to the side of the feedhorn of their big dish with good results.
> > Doesn't seem like that would be effective though, doesn't it have to
> > be properly centered, etc?
>
> +++++++++++++
>
> This technique works great. I used it back in the C-band days to
> accomodate a Ku-LNB and I have been using it with FTA small dishes now
> for some time.
>
> It would probably be measureably better with a spherical dish but it
> works great with a parabolic dish also.
>
> If I remember correctly there is a huge research dish located down in
> Puerto Rico that is so large that it cannot be physically moved. It is
> aimed by moving the receiving device (LNBF) along on suspended rails
> above it.
>
> PON