Homebuilt LNB adapter?

[JRK5150]

I have an old 18" Direct tv dish that I am trying to use with a new invacom LNB. The dish has a straight LNB boom that used an angled LNB originally. I looked around locally for an adapter, but could not find one. My plan now is to build an adapter using the old, dead direct tv LNB as a template. Do you think this would work if I am able to get the angles and position correct? Will holding the new LNB by clamping onto the thin receiver "neck" portion be ok, or will that cause damage? All help will be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks,
-John

[tomcat01]

ok you can mod what you want and no holding it by the neck will not damage it but what kind of lnb is it and what sat are you going for .. 18 inch is a small dish ... need the lnb model and what sat you are interested in getting .. thanks tomcat01

[JRK5150]

Alright! Thanks tomcat01! I'm using an Invacom quad polar legacy 4. I'm looking for the Dish network bird. I think I'll eventually get a bigger dish, but I had this one laying around and want to see if I can get it to work.

[bill of oz]

which DN bird do you want?......you should be able to use the dish and LNB as is for DN.....i dont understand what your trying to accomplish

[tomcat01]

ok bud you have a quad it should work for all the sats now you can get 110 for movies and if you want sprts then go for 119 .. your settings will have to be as follow before you go and get a signal .. (as i say later a bigger dish would be great )

satellite echostar 8,10
lnb type universal
lnb freq 10750
22khz off
disqec1.0 what ever port matching switch
legacy sw off
transponder 12224
motor off


satellite echostar 7
lnb type universal
lnb freq 10750
22khz off
disqec1.0 what ever port matching switch
legacy sw off
transponder 12239
motor off

now this is for bev

satellite nimiq 1,3 91w
lnb type universal
lnb freq 10750
22 khz off
disqec1.0 what ever port matching switch
legacy sw off
transponder 12239
motor off

now you can leave the disqec off or none as you are only hitting one sat

[tomcat01]

what i gave you here is for 3 sats you can go and nimiq is a candian provider but has about 400 channels but 80 are french but you can delete them if you ahve a problem once you have it all up post beck here and someone will help ya

tomcat01 ..

[JRK5150]

Thanks for all the help! I'm building the adapter for my LNB this morning and mounting the dish this afternoon. I'm hoping to have it up and running by tonight. The last time I aimed a dish was about 10 years ago so I'm more than a bit rusty. I'll let you know how it goes.

[tomcat01]

you'll be fine bud like riding a bike ..

[JRK5150]

Well, my adapter works fine and my LNB seems to be transmitting a decent signal. Unfortunately, I'm such a noob at this that I can't seem to figure out how to view the channels. I'm aiming at what I think is the DN 110 bird. My captiveworks cw700s has a list of sats, and I chose the only one at 110 which is the echostar 6,8. I'm getting decent signal strength and quality and when I do a fast channel scan, I see lots of both network and PPV channels. However, when I go to view the channels, they are either black or a small box appears saying "scrambled channel". I downloaded the 1.65 BIN to the stb and allowed it to reboot but still nothing. What the heck am I doing wrong?

[tomcat01]

http://www.abadss.com/forum/864-cw-7...tup-guide.html

here go through the steps and check i know you have to enable the patch and then it will roll and give you channles sorry bud i am not up on the cw .. but read here

[JRK5150]

Wow, thanks again man!!! I'll definitely go over it in the morning. I want to now but the rest of the family is asleep.

[JRK5150]

Alright, I finally got it going! Never would have figured it out without that link from tomcat01, thanks a million bud!!! BTW, the dish looks rediculous! The LNB is fastened to a wooden block with zip-ties. The wooden block is pressed into the LNB boom. Pretty it is not, but it works!

[tomcat01]

hey you know what do me a favor and posta pic of what it looks like .. that would be cool ..thanks tomcat01

[JRK5150]

No prob! Give me a bit to find my photobucket password.

[baron1]

if it works you did a good job. could allways up grade later. doing it that way made you more knowledgeable in setting up a dish

[JRK5150]

Ok, here you go! Not pretty, but it works great!

[slowboy]

pretty Good At Least It Works

[tomcat01]

thats funny but whatever .. if it works it works thanks for the pics bud .. glad you are going later tomcat01