Whats your setup?

snaps

I answered a post in the Satellite forum, thought it would be a good idea to see what other peoples setups are. Sorry for the diagram, i know its not the greatest!



1.1m motorised (Grey), 75 cm solid white for 28.2 east & a 60cm mesh dish for 30 west, I had to break the lnb casing to skew it for the western satellites, as the sky made lnbs only have a eastern satellite skew adjustment!

azzeretti

Bloody hell! Some setup.....those dishes would last about 10 minutes in my house before either my little ones start swinging out of the them or the wife fecked the lot over that fence! Must be handy for adjustments though.

I have a 1.1m Triax on a TM2600 motor with a pretty good arch feeding my DM800 in the sitting room. I then have a 60cm on 28E with a quad feeding a DM800, DM500 and Media Media which in turns streams to other devices (PS3 mostly)

snaps

azzeretti wrote: »

Bloody hell! Some setup.....those dishes would last about 10 minutes in my house before either my little ones start swinging out of the them or the wife fecked the lot over that fence! Must be handy for adjustments though

Luckily the wife left me as she thought my satellite hobby was nuts!! My house is not very child friendly i must admit, thus i dont have kids!!

Reason those dishes are low is that they are nice and sheltered from the atlantic winds/weather and i can have a play with them when ever i want!

jpsr

Here is my old motorized dish, I'm in the middle of upgrading my sat gear.
mmm where is my picture.

glic83

will post pics tommorrow,have a 1m motorised orbital dish and tm600 as the receiver also have a sly dish with a quad lnb and sky +/hd box

fish fingers

Have a 90cm motorised feeding a vu duo in sitting room. Have a fixed 60cm with two lnbs pointing at 28 and 19 feeding kitchen and bedroom. Have a tm500 in kitchen and a solomend hd/pvr800 in bedroom.:)

Greenman

Here's a pic of the wifes setup.

The CM 1.2m looks at NileSat. The Triax TD 110 looks at Arabsat.

She still uses her 11 year old Humax VACI 5300.

In total we use 6 sat receivers, I'll post more pics if the weather is decent.



Below my setup a rotating CM 1.2m 35w to 50e, below it a T-90 giving me a fixed dish with 30e to 15w.



Well thats it.

snaps

Now thats a setup Greenman!!! Im surprised you get Nilesat on a 1.2m there in Belgium?

Greenman

snaps wrote: »

Now thats a setup Greenman!!! Im surprised you get Nilesat on a 1.2m there in Belgium?

Thanks for that Snaps.

Re Nilesat we get all the verticals and some of the horizontals. Nightime brings a great improvement to signals.

Below a setup I had in 2000



More pics to follow.:)

jpsr

Great setup greenman, I seen your setup on another forum i'm on.

snaps

Your neighbours must love you? Its funny you have a 'his and hers' set up!

RogerThis

Snaps,

Nice setup.

Which receiver controls the motor?
What is the specs of your media pc?

RogerThis

My Vu+ Duo has a 1TB hard drive. I have a 8gb usb key in the Azbox.

I record to the Vu+ Duo, then FTP the files to my PC. Then convert them to divx. I use my Apple TV with xbmc to play the files.

snaps

RogerThis wrote: »

Snaps,

Nice setup.

Which receiver controls the motor?
What is the specs of your media pc?

Both the Edision and the Technomate can control the motor (They are on the priority switch, The Edision is on the priority). I can see from 39 east to about 54 west (Because the Dish is low to the ground anything beyond 39 east is behind buildings).

The PC spec, im a bit unsure of the CPU, Its a Pentium 4 anyhow, with 2*320GB HD, 2GB mem, Kworld DVB S card, Hauppage USB DVB T Stick and ive just added a AGP 512mb HDMI output video card. Running Altdvb on it for my tv viewing.

RogerThis

snaps wrote: »

Both the Edision and the Technomate can control the motor (They are on the priority switch, The Edision is on the priority). I can see from 39 east to about 54 west (Because the Dish is low to the ground anything beyond 39 east is behind buildings).

The PC spec, im a bit unsure of the CPU, Its a Pentium 4 anyhow, with 2*320GB HD, 2GB mem, Kworld DVB S card, Hauppage USB DVB T Stick and ive just added a AGP 512mb HDMI output video card. Running Altdvb on it for my tv viewing.

I can't find many places selling priority switches. None on ebay anyways.
I want to setup something similar for my AzBox. I want to be able to control the motor as well as using the other dish. Would I just need a priority switch and a Diseqc switch?

Apogee

Try contact Global Invacom directly for priority switches.
http://www.globalinvacom.com/products/standaloneswitches.php

Greenman

Hello,

As promised more pics.

This is inside.

From top right AZbox Premium HD for feeds. Below a Dream Box DM7000.These two are for me.:):):)

Then top left a FTA Smart receiver for the kiddies.

Below left the Humax VACI 5300 for the wife.



Below my T-90 which I modded as I did not like the original LNB holder setup.




A close up of the TD 110 for Arabsat, the wife allowed me to attach a Best LNB for Astra 28.2 connected to my shed:)



Below a view of part of the disecq setup.




Finally on this one the CM 1.2 and the TF-90:)



Thats it for the moment.

snaps wrote: »

Your neighbours must love you?

Not sure if they love me but they think I'm not a bad neighbour.

snaps wrote: »

Its funny you have a 'his and hers' set up!

Well it works well as we are poles apart re viewing. I listen to sat radio mainly and a bit of TV at night.:)

RogerThis

Apogee wrote: »

Try contact Global Invacom directly for priority switches.
http://www.globalinvacom.com/products/standaloneswitches.php

It's not available on their online shop.

http://www.globalinvacom.com/products/sps1.php
"Sorry, not available to buy online"

But I have sent them an email to make an enquire.

Is there a reason why they are not so popular?

Apogee

RogerThis wrote: »

It's not available on their online shop.

http://www.globalinvacom.com/products/sps1.php
"Sorry, not available to buy online"

But I have sent them an email to make an enquire.

Is there a reason why they are not so popular?

Not sufficent demand I suppose. Invacom are generally good at replying to emails I have found in the past, although they may have stopped production.

Another source:
http://www.kjaerulff1.com/en-gb/p/40_DIGIALITY_smart_priority_switch

Headshot

this is mine

finished today

it has been a long and tiring road, full of lone rangers and dont have a ****ing clue bastards but I finally got it going

jpsr

Can anyone post any picture of cable tv's masts, where they have there dishes etc. There was one in my town till a few years ago it was took down and moved on top of a local hospital and now run from fibre cable to dublin. I know they are not many of these left, but if anyone has pics please post. The one in my town i visited when i was a teen, it had maybe 2 or 3 channel masters dishes aswell as a few smaller ones, aerials etc.

Greenman

jpsr wrote: »

Can anyone post any picture of cable tv's masts, where they have there dishes etc. There was one in my town till a few years ago it was took down and moved on top of a local hospital and now run from fibre cable to dublin. I know they are not many of these left, but if anyone has pics please post. The one in my town i visited when i was a teen, it had maybe 2 or 3 channel masters dishes aswell as a few smaller ones, aerials etc.

Do you mean something like this??

Apogee

jpsr wrote: »

Can anyone post any picture of cable tv's masts, where they have there dishes etc. There was one in my town till a few years ago it was took down and moved on top of a local hospital and now run from fibre cable to dublin. I know they are not many of these left, but if anyone has pics please post. The one in my town i visited when i was a teen, it had maybe 2 or 3 channel masters dishes aswell as a few smaller ones, aerials etc.

You might be interested in this thread.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055043728

jpsr

Greenman wrote: »

Do you mean something like this??

Ye greenman, thats brilliant thanks. Where was this picture taken.

Greenman

Apogee wrote: »

You might be interested in this thread.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055043728

Thats a very interesting thread and Apogee well done on your pics.:)

jpsr

Apogee wrote: »

You might be interested in this thread.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055043728

Thanks also apogee, just what i was looking for. I just love satellite dishes, does that mean im a freak, ha.

Greenman

jpsr wrote: »

Ye greenman, thats brilliant thanks. Where was this picture taken.

If my memory serves me right I think it was somewhere in the south of England.

BTW Did you look at the http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055043728 thread? Lots of great pics there.

Greenman

jpsr wrote: »

I just love satellite dishes, does that mean im a freak, ha.

If you're a freak then there is two of us:)

jpsr

Greenman wrote: »

If you're a freak then there is two of us:)

Ha ha, At least i'm not the only one. I'm sorry i never took a few photos of the CMI mast, which stands for cable management ireland. It was in my town just a few mins up the road. When chorus took over it was moved on top of the hospital and when upc bought chorus/ntl cable in my town it was fed from dublin with fibre. The channel master dishes, mast, aerials are still on top of the hospital even though they are not in use anymore and on another part of the roof there is what looks like a 1.8 channel master. Oh would i love to get on that roof.

Greenman

jpsr wrote: »

The channel master dishes, mast, aerials are still on top of the hospital even though they are not in use anymore and on another part of the roof there is what looks like a 1.8 channel master. Oh would i love to get on that roof.

Why not front up and ask for the dish. A pal of mine saw a CM 2.4 above a warehouse asked if they were using it, they said "no" he said "can I have it" and they said "yes" so he is now the proud owner of said dish. That was here (Belgium) but I know some in Ireland are a bit freaky re liability but thats another story.

If you don't try you will never know.

Keep us posted.

jpsr

Greenman wrote: »

Why not front up and ask for the dish. A pal of mine saw a CM 2.4 above a warehouse asked if they were using it, they said "no" he said "can I have it" and they said "yes" so he is now the proud owner of said dish. That was here (Belgium) but I know some in Ireland are a bit freaky re liability but thats another story.

If you don't try you will never know.

Keep us posted.

I done something simular last year at a bookies in town. As you know most bookies use 1.2 channel master dishes. 1 bookies got a brand new 1.2 channel master installed lower than the old one, so i went inside and asked, the manager. He said there was a problem with the old dish and the installer could not reach it, It was very high on a 3 inch pole over the peak of the roof, but it could of been took down, and all id say was wrong was a new lnb, or wind movement, not a big problem, so he said call back next week and he will ask head office. Called back the following week and he said no, they were keeping it. It's still there doing notting. Thats the irish for ya. I would'nt know who to contact for the upc dish as most numbers are customer service etc and the dishes are on top of a muti story hospital roof, I dont know how they got them up.

Greenman

Here are a few pics of his CM 2.4m Prime Focus he got for free.



and



not bad eh:)

jpsr

Notting wrong with that, A bit of a clean and it will be like new.

glic83

some dish and if its for free or even on the cheap then happy days,what is he using it to pick up nilesat?

Greenman

glic83 wrote: »

some dish and if its for free or even on the cheap then happy days,what is he using it to pick up nilesat?

Yes you guessed right but for the moment its not in situ yet, its a question of space.

On the otherhand I've got the space here, something to think about.:)

snaps

Great pics Greenman. Love the shots of the lnb holder for 28 east off the Arabsat dish.

Re Priority switches, they are very hard to get hold of, mine is a global make, ive had it for years, i may have an invoice somewhere (In the attic), so i will know where it came from. They are a great piece of useful kit to allow 2 receivers to share 1 input (Ie a motor).

Try:
http://www.pulsat.com/categories/Motors-%26-Switches/?sort=featured&page=2
(Seem expensive though)

The only other way is to use the loop function in the back of 1 of the satellite receivers, but i have found these very hit and miss.

Greenman

snaps wrote: »

Great pics Greenman. Love the shots of the lnb holder for 28 east off the Arabsat dish.

Thanks for that Snaps its something I saw on watty's site http://homepage.eircom.net/~watty/satellite/sathowto-p6.htm

For example

snaps

RogerThis wrote: »

I can't find many places selling priority switches. None on ebay anyways.

Our polish friends have three different switches for sale, the top one seems to be what ive got! Not 100% sure what difference the other 2 have.

http://satsklep.pl/index.php?s=produkt&id_prod=1214&id_kat=22&id_typu=0

Apogee

snaps wrote: »

Our polish friends have three different switches for sale, the top one seems to be what ive got! Not 100% sure what difference the other 2 have.

http://satsklep.pl/index.php?s=produkt&id_prod=1214&id_kat=22&id_typu=0

VSP301 uses 0/12V constant voltage from SCART to switch.
VSP202 uses 0/12V pulse from SCART to switch.
VSP201 looks like a priority switch - but the picture shows VSP200, so it's hard to be sure.

snaps

my priority switch has the scart feed as well but i dont use it!

watty

Greenman wrote: »

Thanks for that Snaps its something I saw on watty's site http://homepage.eircom.net/~watty/satellite/sathowto-p6.htm

For example

That concoction is long gone

Very out of date site not updated in over 8 years maybe?

Taken a couple of years ago. Centre is Triax 110cm on Motek SG2100. I was testing Astra2Connect on 23E, hence VSAT ODU.

Currently It's 28.2E, 19.2E, 13E and 9E* feeding EMP Centauri Multiswitch.

One PC with 2x PCI DVB-s2 cards
Sky box
2 PCs with regular DVB-s cards

Security camera uses VHS as modulator and feed terrestrial input of Multiswitch. The camera is on top of pole with Security light above the motorised dish.

Cheap box with Blind scan for Motor.
"Shack" photos on new Site:
http://www.wattystuff.net/amateur/the-shack/


However most tech stuff I publish now on www.techtir.ie which I 25% own with Byte, Bond-007 and DMC.

*Will add a ka band LNBF on 9E next year
Leftmost dish is not in use. Though it has a C Band LNBF on it. I'm promised a big mesh dish for C band.

Apogee

Thanks to marclt for stickying this thread. We've had a few threads like this in the past where people have posted photos of their setups, but they fell off the radar after a while. Hopefully, we can get lots of good shots on this thread!

byte

I've just got a Triax TD110 on a Moteck 2100a for my Vu+ Duo, as well as a TD64 for Sky+HD (with another feed for second tuner in Vu+). I shall edit this post with pix tomorrow, not that there's much point

In the past 2-3 years, I've gone through about 5 "hobby" receivers - the TM1500, TM5400, Octagon SF918HD (absolutely the worst receiver I have ever had the misfortune to own or use, though lucky to lose very little by selling it on eBay a few weeks later), TM6900 Super (very good basic HD rxr), and my current pride of place, the Vu+Duo.

watty

Similar dish to mine (Mine's a Triax 110) and current model of same motor

Manc-Red

bassy

bad effort there manc,get that 1.2m triax

Manc-Red wrote: »

jpsr

How does that L bracket fair out in the wind it looks very thin.
I have the same type bracket with my motorized dish, but its 65 cm, which is good and thick and does'nt move in high wind.

Manc-Red

jpsr wrote: »

How does that L bracket fair out in the wind it looks very thin.
I have the same type bracket with my motorized dish, but its 65 cm, which is good and thick and does'nt move in high wind.

2 years in & had no issues so far m8

rurs

Here's my setup:

Triax TD-54, Technomate TM-2600, Comag LNB.

The "mast" I believe, is the remnants of the ca. 1860s outside jacks.

It's fairly exposed, so that's why I went for such a small dish, it's a rented place, I'd have preferred an 80cm+, but didn't want the ancient ironmongery to be torn from the flat-roof shed beneath. Also, the motor was the only one I could confirm had 3" U-bolts.

At the moment, I've got very reliable 28.2, 23.5, 19.2, and 13 east, which was what I wanted. With a slight adjustment I can get bits of 9, 4 E etc, but nothing west without some serious elevation adjustment, which ruins everything east...a function of the small dish, I presume.

snaps

Manc-Red wrote: »

2 years in & had no issues so far m8

And manc red told me he only has that bracket held in with 2 bolts, to save money..............:eek:

snaps

rurs wrote: »

Here's my setup:

Triax TD-54, Technomate TM-2600, Comag LNB.

The "mast" I believe, is the remnants of the ca. 1860s outside jacks.

It's fairly exposed, so that's why I went for such a small dish, it's a rented place, I'd have preferred an 80cm+, but didn't want the ancient ironmongery to be torn from the flat-roof shed beneath. Also, the motor was the only one I could confirm had 3" U-bolts.

At the moment, I've got very reliable 28.2, 23.5, 19.2, and 13 east, which was what I wanted. With a slight adjustment I can get bits of 9, 4 E etc, but nothing west without some serious elevation adjustment, which ruins everything east...a function of the small dish, I presume.

I would say if you cant get anything west, then your arc is out. you should get 5 west, 8 west and 30 west with that dish.