Poor mans Dish 500 (make your own)

[dptw27]

thanks goes to the creator.
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Using a dtv dish and an extra lnb can get you the 110 & 119 sats and consequently 457 FREE channels. I have done this myself and it's so easy, I can't believe they make dish's with skew adjustments. I literally use rubber bands or hair ties to strap an lnb to the existing lnb and get 2 birds very quickly. I will be attaching photos and it's just as easy as it looks. Standing behind your dtv dish thats already pointed at 101, simply turn it to the right and drop the elevation about 10%. This is where th 110 sat is. You can use your dtv receiver to find the 110 by going into dish pointing menu and selecting one of these transponders 8, 10 or 12. When you find teh 110 you will hear the signal meter rise and you can then fine tune it. Attach an extra lnb to the right (facing the dish) by using rubber bands or hair ties or wire ties, about 2 1/2 " above the other existing lnb (see photo) Attach the cable from it to the dtv receiver and in dish pointing change the transponder to one of these 23, 25, 29 and you'll probably aready have some signal, slide it up or down, keeping it flush with the other. Once she's dialed in epoxy or super glue to the original lnb. This is soo easy! When done you now have a single existing dtv dish that will pull 457 channels for your NEW FTA receiver. For those interested, this is how you hit the birds. gotta remember you're trying to hit something the size of an SUV, 24k miles away. The FTA receivers are C-band originally and as such they require a different switch to combine the 2 lnbs into 1 output. I use a 4 into 1 diseqc switch. Please see attached photo's and diagrams on how to setup. These switches have ports for hooking 4 sats to 1 output. Each input is numbered and MUST match your antenna setup in the ird. i.e. 110 sat on port #1, 119 sat on port #2, 91 sat on port #3 etc. switches can even be cascaded for 16 sats to 1 ird