Which Receiver for C Band

[luiscolo3]

Originally Posted by gianni722

My reciever shows channel 300 but won't let me load the bin file .I'am ready to brake this thing. Can someone help me please

Are you sure your in the right place? theese peolpe are talking about C band recievers and your loading bins, what bin are you talking about?

[tom1212]

ok fine you have a receiver ok what type is it what brand what syour lnb and so on give some info if you want help

[paca]

ok guys i used a 8 footer but what i want to now is how to fit the c-band lnb on to it i have never seen an c band lnb for real the dish has three arm .

[Dipper]

The LNB is attached to the feedhorn and the feedhorn fits into the scalar ring. A C-band LNBF comes as one unit and fits into the scalar ring. When talking C-band, the terms LNB and LNBF mean two different things.

[paca]

ok ok i am lost what is the feed horn and the scalar ring.

[Al Mundy]

Originally Posted by Taka

This may sound really dumb to those who have done this for a while, I have been doing quite a bit of reading but no answer yet, so here goes.
I am just starting to use C Band, and need to know which receivers will work. Do you require a special C Band receiver or will a Pansat, Viewsat, Etc work? I have a 6ft dish and C Band LNB all ready to go when I get back to camp.

Thanks;
Taka

You have several options for C-band. Any decent FTA receiver will work fine for viewing clear MPEG-2 signals. However, they won't run the dish motor or motorized polarizer on an LNB. If you use an LNBF, the FTA can switch between vertical and horizontal polarity with the DiSeqc output. A cheap way to run the dish is to find a free or nearly free analog C-band receiver, get a sat-splitter and let the analog receiver run the dish and polarizer while the FTA acts as a slave. Note that almost all analog programming is now gone so an analog receiver won't be good for much viewing. A 4DTV is the best way to go. I use a Motorola DSR-922 4DTV with the add-on HDD-200 high-def box. Note that the 4DTV box does analog with a built-in videocypher decoder and digital with a built-in digicypher decoder, but does not do MPEG-2. For my C-band MPEG-2, I have my C-band sat feed going to a splitter and to an old Coolsat 5000 FTA receiver set up just for C-band. Between the Motorola and the Coolsat, I can get just about everything on C-band. I hope this helps.

[freefreak]

Would a system with a GI 4dtv receiver with VS ultra receiver work? If so, which type lnbf would be needed? A c/ku band standard or universal type?

[Dipper]

Slave the Viewsat to the 4DTV. As for the LNBs in question, take your pick.

[freefreak]

Would 2 seperate lnbs be needed, 1 c-band, 1 ku-band, or could a combination c/ku band lnb be used?

[Dipper]

Any of the above. Like I said, take your pick.