My 1.2M Prime Focus Reference dish.

lasbrisas17 · 01-07-2008

This is my pride and joy, took me ages to find one as I don't really like the look of big offset dishes, especially as far round as 43W. Uses a Chaparral motor with optical sensor which is giving me a few problems atm.

***CROSSBONES*** · 01-07-2008

nice dish! The mount looks nice and secure

**Robbo** · 01-07-2008

I agree, it actually looks quite nice, not as ugly as an offset,

**don'tknowdon'taskme** · 02-07-2008

you have done a very job with that m8 nice one.

**charly20** · 02-07-2008

nice job but the coax cable entering the wall should not have such a sharp 90° angle. This damages the cable and the quality of the signal.

***wod*** · 02-07-2008

very nice is that a precision antennas dish ?

**Presserfoot** · 06-07-2008

Professionally well done, very neat and tidy. Kool.

Prodelin · 06-07-2008

That dish setup Steve Chilver sold together with the Chaparral Monterey SCT500 back in the old days, very expensive.

lasbrisas17 · 07-07-2008

Thanks for the comments, it's what was called a "Reference Dish" and yes I think they were sold by SCT. On the question of the 90 degree caling could this be causing the problem I am having with the optical sensor as I am getting error messages when I move the dish. If I can't fix it do you guys think it would be difficult to change the motor to a Jaeger 1224.

Prodelin · 07-07-2008

Originally Posted by lasbrisas17

Thanks for the comments, it's what was called a "Reference Dish" and yes I think they were sold by SCT. On the question of the 90 degree caling could this be causing the problem I am having with the optical sensor as I am getting error messages when I move the dish. If I can't fix it do you guys think it would be difficult to change the motor to a Jaeger 1224.

Just change the optical sensor of the Chaparral motor and you will be fine.

Please contact Bert Dahlström, the Chapparral distributor at bert @ transnova.se

He is very friendly and probably can fix the spare part for you.

lasbrisas17 · 07-07-2008

Originally Posted by Prodelin

Just change the optical sensor of the Chaparral motor and you will be fine.

Please contact Bert Dahlström, the Chapparral distributor at _bert@transnova.se

He is very friendly and probably can fix the spare part for you.

Thanks for the advice, the problem is I'm not good with heights so I don't think I could do this myself and I don't know where it is located so I may have to get someone to do it for me. I will ask the guy you mentioned to see if he can let me know how to change it.

***CROSSBONES*** · 08-07-2008

Just out of interest, where did you buy it?

lasbrisas17 · 08-07-2008

Originally Posted by CROSSBONES

Just out of interest, where did you buy it?

I bought it from an installer in Kidderminster, he also did the install. He is not in the business anymore otherwise I would have asked him for assistance.

***CROSSBONES*** · 09-07-2008

has he got any more for sale?

lasbrisas17 · 09-07-2008

Originally Posted by CROSSBONES

has he got any more for sale?

He's dissappeared off the face of the earth so can't get hold of him. Seems like alot of the good installers have jacked it in.

Prodelin · 09-07-2008

This package was the best you could buy back in the 90's, i beleive SCT started selling this dish when the supplies of the Fibostöp 120cm dried up.

It was offered with the highend Monterey(wish they made receivers like that today) and Chaparral Omni polarizer and SMW LNB and of course the low RMS spun aluminium dish and Chaparral motor.

One thing i would do with your dish is to install a C/KU-band feed like ADL or similar quality, there are some C-band you can get with that dish.

lasbrisas17 · 10-07-2008

Originally Posted by Prodelin

One thing i would do with your dish is to install a C/KU-band feed like ADL or similar quality, there are some C-band you can get with that dish.

Interesting where would I get one of those and what benefits would I see. I think my dish is too small for C band from what I have read.

Prodelin · 10-07-2008

This one is a good one

_http://www.sepatriot.com/feeds-ADL_RP3ckuservo.htm

And here what you can receive with a 120cm in Europe.

_http://forum.dxtv.de/wbb/thread.php?threadid=1072

Intelsat 906 (64 Grad Ost)
4080 LZ AFN Paket kommt (3C), der Rest ist (momentan) zu schwach, denn hier stören immer noch ein paar Blätter, habe die Hoffnung auf die Sender aus Tanzania noch nicht ganz aufgegeben...

Express AM 1/A1R (40 Grad Ost)
3626 RZ Chechenskaya GTRK (3C).
3675 RZ die Russen sind problemlos zu empfangen (5D), selbst bei starkem Regen noch Reserve.

Arabsat 2C (26 Grad Ost)
3786 V MBC Paket (55)
4026 V MBC 2 (4D)
Empfang einwandfrei, obwohl ich gar keinen Polarizer verwende...

Intelsat 10-02 (1 Grad West)
3912 RZ Deutsche Welle (35)

Atlantic Bird 3 (5 Grad West)
3711 LZ CRTV (29*) Signal ist da, wird richtig eingelesen, ist aber zu schwach.
3727 RZ Reuters TV (40*) auch bei diesem Tp reicht es nicht ganz.
4023 RZ KTN (39) wie immer codiert.
4158 RZ Jamahiryah TV (80) momentan stärkstes C-Band Signal mit 120 cm.
4160 LZ Gabun Paket (5A)

Express 3A (11 Grad West)
3987 RZ BTK (71)

NSS 7 (22 Grad West)
3652 RZ (3A) CFI Paket wie immer problemlos.
3931 LZ (35*) CNN macht manchmal Aussetzer.
4055 RZ (40*) Globecast Paket wird immerhin eingelesen...
4179 RZ (44*) Arabsat Paket läuft zwischenzeitlich störungsfrei.

Intelsat 907 (27,5 Grad West)
3715 RZ VOA (31)
3831 RZ RTP Africa (5B)
4048 RZ Record Africa (5E)

Intelsat 801 (31,5 Grad West)
3645 RZ ORTM Mali (3C) besser als je zuvor.
3718 RZ RTS 1 Senegal (29*) bringt immerhin Bildfetzen.

Intelsat 903 (34,5 Grad West)
3888 LZ Nigeria Paket (47) kommt prima rein.

NSS 806 (40,5 Grad West)
3600 RZ TV INCE (1C*) größtenteils stabil.
3677 LZ TV Adsat (3E)
3695 LZ CBC Canal 6 (35*) geht ab und zu.
3803 RZ Globecast (42*) verdammt, die FEC wurde auf 7/8 geändert, Smooth Jazz Love 94 läuft bei mir leider nicht mehr...
3804 LZ ERT Sat (35) kommt störungsfrei.
3898 RZ INH (43) wie immer codiert.
3960 RZ La Tele (39)
4016 RZ RCN (49) endlich mal offen !
4026 LZ Canal 13/Teve Andina (3B) geht auch
4063 RZ VTV (41) leider codiert.
4100 RZ Televen (58) ebenfalls.
4108 RZ Rede Gospel (52) mit prima Reserve.
4123 RZ Worldnet (3B) macht keine Probleme.
4125 LZ Cinesex Brasil (32) codiert.
4145 RZ TV Marti (3E)

lasbrisas17 · 11-07-2008

prodelin, thanks for all your help and info, now had there been any spanish language channels I would have been interested in C band. I guess I could go for it just to have a look ! I take it I would have to get a LNB aswell. Can you get C band channels on a dreambox.

Prodelin · 11-07-2008

Originally Posted by lasbrisas17

prodelin, thanks for all your help and info, now had there been any spanish language channels I would have been interested in C band. I guess I could go for it just to have a look ! I take it I would have to get a LNB aswell. Can you get C band channels on a dreambox.

Ask ROLFW or his real name which is...

Email me labrisas we can discuss it further