My WS Conical Kit installed on a 1m dish mini BUD project.

[Pro96]

Part 1.

Thought I would share this installation I did this week, with of course the now famous WS Conical Kit from Robby .

I first started out with a Winegard 100cm dish I had in the backyard for like 2yrs w/o use. Mainly due to the lack of having the right mount for it. (Ok I do admit I was a bit lazy to look for it, lol).

Then I decided to search for a non penetrating floor mount with 2 3/8" OD. Then the shipping costs would pretty much kill that product so I went ahead and used a nice wooden pallet I had at work that was pretty strong looking with thick boards on it. Brought it home and stored it in garage.

While browsing ebay I found a nice Starband 2 3/8" pole for under $25 shipped which was perfect for the pallet I had in mind to use.

When the pole finally arrived, I immediately mounted on pallet, went to the backyard and grabbed the 1m dish and mounted it. It looked even better then I thought it would.


Then I purchased the WS DMX741 Conical kit combo (thanks Robby) and received it this past Monday.

That same night I was hyped to get this baby up and running and then found out that the Winegard 100cm dish LNB arm will not fit into the Cband Ring (as pictured)

I was like hmmm, this is gonna take longer then I thought. Our good friend ICEBERG suggested that I would use a piece of wood to support the RING onto the ARM, so that gave me an idea and ran to my garage.

[Pro96]

Part 2:

Well after 15min of looking thru my junk, I found a nice metal piece that was a perfect sized match for the RING.

Mounted it into the LNB Arm (as pictured)

Mounted the whole conical kit, used a hose clamp to tighten the metal that holds the RING (no drilling at all) and was up and running at last.

[Pro96]

Part 3:

Now for my tests, with Satmex 5 and Galaxy 16.

Galaxy 16 TP 3735V

Comes in at 72% with 1m dish. Some of the DVB-S ABC channels in the 40-50%
The 4 locals from Caribbean at high 20's (wont lock) Might need some tweaking around. Dont even know if pallet is 100% leveled too.

Satmex 5 TP 3863 results with and w/o conical installed.

w/o conical 40% PQ (picture#2)

With conical 69% to 71% (great improvement) picture #3

I was happy with the results I did so far. I will be testing other satellites this week and will post the results.

I highly recommend this Conical setup for anyone who wants CBAND in a smaller dish.

[Babadem]

Nice Illustration Pro96! Great job.

A small suggestion Pro96. Can you attach the picture using the "Attachments" button (looks like a paper clip), instead of copying and pasting the picture in the body of message post? Thanks!

[Pro96]

ok n/p

[Babadem]

Originally Posted by Pro96

ok n/p

Thanks, Buddy!

[cocolin]

i order mi conical kit last week still no arrive i can wait to try from where you testing pro 96

[Babadem]

Originally Posted by cocolin

i order mi conical kit last week still no arrive i can wait to try from where you testing pro 96

Have you tried calling them on the phone to check the status of your order?

[cocolin]

they said by tomorrow , so have the weekeng to test i have hh90 motor from 30 west to 125.0w i need to do it is change the lnb i guess so . but my question is the settings for the receiver .?

[Babadem]

Originally Posted by cocolin

they said by tomorrow , so have the weekeng to test i have hh90 motor from 30 west to 125.0w i need to do it is change the lnb i guess so . but my question is the settings for the receiver .?

What type of receiver do you have? For the Linear sats you should be setting you L.O. 10750 and for C-Band a L.O. of 5150. What dish size will you be using?