I put up a 1/4 wave vertical for 20m this weekend, just 16 ish feet of 1 inch EMT insulated with 1 1/4" sch 80 pvc pipe stuck in the ground, 4 16 ish ft wire radials across the ground. If it's still there I'll post a picture.....

I'm thinking about cobbling a vertical together as I have a bunch of 1" emt conduit and 14 ga wire. Are you guys using a 4:1 un un on your rigs? My tuner has a built in 4:1 balun but that's for ladder line

10ft at least

OK, inscription in the back

I've had this for a while, played with it a bit over the summer, but i am finally getting around to really dialing it in on 99w. It fit on a 3" post that I used for the button hook dish, the feed was set up for a transmitter and a normal Ku LNB, transmitter is long gone but the larger NJRC LNB...

You would think that would be a win for her. A 1.2 Prodelin ain't that big/ugly compared to an 8-10ft dish lol I have a 1.2 meter post office Ku dish to fool around with this weekend. I had the blessing from the post master to dismantle it so no felony.

Worst case scenario I'll use my BUD(s) to get weather satellites, been watching saveitforparts on YT, fun stuff

Also the GT media receiver will power the LNBs as long as they're hooked to the gt media receiver directly or through a Disecq/22khz switch, you'll want to use the analog receiver as a stand alone just hooked to the actuator/co rotor. The Primesat box will also pass thru power/signal to the LNBs...

Yeah you can run your C and Ku feeds into a Disecq switch or 22khz switch and set up the receiver to switch the switch. Those primesat movers don't have a polarity switcher for the co rotor. So you'll need your analog receiver to do that. I'd just use the analog receiver to move the dish and...

I've got a Nakamichi BX-125 sitting in my back room, but shipping gonna be spendy, and it's idler wheel might be dead

Yep I'm good at killing Disecq switches. Keep em dry.....

M6 x 1.0..... I got it up and kinda just eyeball'd azimuth, elevation and declination left as is. Got 101w pretty easy. My coax cables are barely long enough so I'm not trying anything too far east or west. Good enough for now. If the suspension work on the Subaru goes OK then I might optimize...

Anyone know what size the threads are on the scalar ring that comes with the Titanium LNBFs? Seems like M6 x something..... I put the reflector together tonight but ran outta daylight. The chaparral feed that came with this is part of the scalar ring and I plan on using the LNBF. I did get the...

Prolly shoulda, but i didn't wanna spoil Sunday dinner

Been a while, but I found a 10 footer on my local CL last week. Took a trip to the east mountains (ABQ) yesterday to dismantle/pick up. Thankfully my Tommy Gate on the truck waited until I got home to crap the bed 😂 the dish came with a Chaparral corotor setup and echostar lnb and I tested the...

Thats pretty sick. It got darker here (Albuquerque) than I thought it would, but it didn't get very dark during the one back in October either (and we were right under it!)

I just did the online practice tests until I couldn't see straight, passed my General pretty easy that way. I have an IC-706mkii, MFJ Versatuner, and a big horizontal loop fed with ladder line for HF, and a J pole built outta junk for 2M. With the loop and 100 watts I can talk to most of the...

I'm also a rabid audiophool and have been wheelin' and dealin' stereo gear, I have way too many speakers, amps, etc. I'm selling underused/redundant gear so I can buy that MiniDSP Flex 8 HTx to use as my preamp/eq/DAC/active crossover. I'm also putting together an off grid solar system so that's...

Don't give up! This one is tricky. Ironically I finally got it when I motorized my 90cm dish.

I think I have one in the shed. Came on one of the scrap picked dishes I got back in October

Still here, just fell asleep. I ought ta chase feeds, I put that Geosat 90 on a motor......

The hail damage on that my 7.5 Winegard looks worse than that and it works just fine.

It seems to work as good as the 8.5 spun dish despite being smaller. Still got a little tweaking to do but this one is a keeper. Not worried about the 5G cuz it’s behind a house with a pro panel roof

I have it most of the way up. That nice light reflector was easy to toss on the mount by myself. That bit of metal in the center is a burned out “NO DUMPING” sign i pilfered out of the recycle pile at work, the paint on it is drying now……

The 90cm dish came with a 7.5 ft Winegard mesh dish lol. Somebody junked their FTA setup and I grabbed it.