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07-12-2009, 09:08 AM
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Primestar dishes
How many time has some asked if a old Primestar dish will work? To me, all the time. Here's a picture of a couple of them in actual use. One is using a Primestar "bullet" type LNBF and the other I have a 7 year old Samsung universal LNBF rigged up on it. There's also a picture to adapt to a standard dish mount since the Primestar's mount is so much bigger. There are other kinds of Primestar dished/LNBF's also.
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Dreambox 7020 FortecStar Lifetime Ultra FortecStar Lifetime 8 Dishes (C/Ku bands) Ku LNBF's: Invacoms,Fortec, Samsung, Primestar C band LNBF's: Precision, DMS Switch EMI Centuri S.168 Motors: retired (none used) 
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07-12-2009, 12:14 PM
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Nice looking dishes Buzz unfortunately I let a primestar get away before I got in to FTA I sure like to have it now.
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Rainman's Equipment Undien 4600,DSR 922 Fortec Ultra, Satworks 3618 2 Fortec Mercury II Fortec Classic NA 8.5' Orbitron polar C Ku dish 8.5' Birdview HH C Ku dish 100cm Fortec dish 90cm Fortec dish 2 DG-240 HH motors Co Rotor II feed horn Norsat 8515 C band lnb Norsat 4506A Ku lnb BSC-621-2 Lnbf Invacom QPH-031 Lnbf Invacom SNH-031 Lnbf Fortec Fsku-v universal Lnbf V-Box
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07-12-2009, 01:15 PM
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Primestars
I have pointing to 83 degrees (AMC9) and the other to 129 (Galaxy27). Believe it or not out here some people still have them planted in the ground but defunct. I ended up with some with pole, concrete and all! Picked up a real old Directway this way also. I have found that even though the Primestars are Channel Master USA dishes they have metric bolts holding the LNBF on.
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Dreambox 7020 FortecStar Lifetime Ultra FortecStar Lifetime 8 Dishes (C/Ku bands) Ku LNBF's: Invacoms,Fortec, Samsung, Primestar C band LNBF's: Precision, DMS Switch EMI Centuri S.168 Motors: retired (none used)
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07-12-2009, 03:57 PM
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how does the primestars work on the RTV/RTN channels.
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Rainman's Equipment Undien 4600,DSR 922 Fortec Ultra, Satworks 3618 2 Fortec Mercury II Fortec Classic NA 8.5' Orbitron polar C Ku dish 8.5' Birdview HH C Ku dish 100cm Fortec dish 90cm Fortec dish 2 DG-240 HH motors Co Rotor II feed horn Norsat 8515 C band lnb Norsat 4506A Ku lnb BSC-621-2 Lnbf Invacom QPH-031 Lnbf Invacom SNH-031 Lnbf Fortec Fsku-v universal Lnbf V-Box
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07-12-2009, 04:13 PM
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I am using the old Samsung LNBF with the Primestar dish to get that. I found when I first scanned that bird it did NOT see that transponder. So, I did an manual scan of 11735 and east/west channels came right in solid but I do see some pixels on a large flat panel. I plan on changing the LNBF to an Invacom next week when I get a chance. These channels are great! How well does it come in at you location?
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Dreambox 7020 FortecStar Lifetime Ultra FortecStar Lifetime 8 Dishes (C/Ku bands) Ku LNBF's: Invacoms,Fortec, Samsung, Primestar C band LNBF's: Precision, DMS Switch EMI Centuri S.168 Motors: retired (none used)
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07-12-2009, 06:28 PM
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I get them at about 45 to 50% on the 36" dish and with the 8.5 ft dish I get it at 60% love these old shows i grew up on them.
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Rainman's Equipment Undien 4600,DSR 922 Fortec Ultra, Satworks 3618 2 Fortec Mercury II Fortec Classic NA 8.5' Orbitron polar C Ku dish 8.5' Birdview HH C Ku dish 100cm Fortec dish 90cm Fortec dish 2 DG-240 HH motors Co Rotor II feed horn Norsat 8515 C band lnb Norsat 4506A Ku lnb BSC-621-2 Lnbf Invacom QPH-031 Lnbf Invacom SNH-031 Lnbf Fortec Fsku-v universal Lnbf V-Box
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