My new setup

[JamesA]

I was reminded recently that there is more up there that Astra 2 and the Sky service. While i am very pleased with my Sky HD box, im also nosy and after finding this forum and browsing ebay for kit, i decided to put a multi LNB setup together Spent a couple of hours this morning up and down the ladder and its pretty much sorted! Think im going to have to tweak 28E a little, but its all physically in place and working!

So i know have:
Triax TD78 dish with multi-LNB bracket
4 way Switch
Single LNB on 13E
Single LNB on 19.2E
Quad LNB on 28E

The 2 single LNB's and 1 feed from the Quad go to the switch. The feed from the switch is currently going to a Sky Star 2 TV PCI card in my PC. Once im happy with the 28E alignment i will transfer the 2 feeds to the sky box over from the current mini dish and take it down.

Thanks again to everyone here for all the help and advice.

 

[satelliteman]

Nice installation.

Is that an amateur radio antenna rigged up also?

 

[JamesA]

Yup it is, a Watson 2000 triband for 6M, 2M and 70Cms. Only really ever use it on 2 and 70 though. There is an HF vertical at the other end of the garden.

 

[satelliteman]

Nice.

Have a Discone SE1300 myself for 25Mhz -1300Mhz scanning. Also had a 1/2 wave rod for FM 27Mhz years back. That's when I use to mess about with SWR meters and firestick rods on the base of a biscuit tin

Certainly have a nice selection there.

 

[Lazarus]

Thankyou for those pics - You've done as you said here : A "proper job".

Well done

 

[JamesA]

Thanks Tivu, im quite pleased with it myself

SatMan, strangely enough there was a discone on that bracket shortly before the dish went up!

 

[RdMin]

mmm what are those twin and earth cables clipped direct to the house feeding???..

 

[JamesA]

Heh they go to a couple of outside lights lashed up by the previous owner, I really should get round to replacing it.

 

[satelliteman]

Motorised next James

 

[JamesA]

Hmm tempting

Next thing i want to put up really is a 2M Yagi with a rotator. Once the mini dish is out of the way, i'll have room for a decent set of T&K brackets to hold a large ally pole. Yagi and rotator on the top and the colinear on top of that.

Will be putting up a mates tower scaffold for that little job!

 

[Lazarus]

Nah, chicken feed!

What you really need is an HF Beam on a really intrusive Lattice Tower

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[JamesA]

I would love to do that Tivu!
A couple of months back i put up one of those Comet rotatable dipoles for 10/15/20/40. It was on a 3 meter pole in a V shape and each element is 5 meters long. It was up 6 days and i had a bloke from the council round

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