13' Comtech C120 LNB Ku project

[rrob311]

I took down my 13' Comtech dish now that I have my 10' Winegard scanning the arc finally. I have a separate Feedhorn assembly for Ku for my Comtech dish that I do not have an LNB for. It appears to take the C120 style LNB. I have been looking for a decent priced C120 style LNB so I can test some fringe Ku feeds with this. Are there any weak eastern Ku feeds worth pointing this thing at? It is on a trailer so I can move it around my yard. 30w is pretty weak from my location and I have never caught it.

[el bandido]

Is the feed horn matched for the 13 ft. dish? Is the 13ft. dish designed for ku? If the answer to both questions is yes then you have one heck of a setup for ku!!

[rrob311]

Ya I bought the dish from a guy up in Maine who used to use it for uplinking. The feedhorn is specific to that dish. It is a solid fiberglass prime focus dish. It folds up and is permanently mounted to a trailer. I have been using it for C band all this time. Just don't have a Ku lnb for it. The feedhorn has a gear drive motor built in to adjust skew.

[rrob311]

I found an Inverto quad C120 LNB for just under 50 shipped from the UK. Seems to be good but I can't find specs on it. I think it is universal. I have been hesitating to spend 50 on the LNB because I spent 50 on the dish. LMAO

[el bandido]

Spend the 50. We only live once!

[rrob311]

I bit the bullet and ordered the inverto classic. I think I am going to position the dish at 30W and see what I can get. I will post my results hopefully by next week if it arrives in time.

[Costactc]

Considering where you live Rob you shouldn't be having any issues with Hispasat at 30w. Telstar 12 also has some interesting channels like Msnbc at 15w. Aside from a few feeds 0n 12.5w, 22w, 37.5w there aren't many unencrypted ku channels on the Atlantic side.