Hey Robbie, been away from the hobby for almost a decade, saw your vids and got the itch to go back to the hobby. A cheap trick I remember when setting up my old 36 inch motorized dish back in the day: get a u-shaped exhaust pipe clamp from canadian tire and mount it on the pole just below where the motor clamps on the pole. This prevents the motor/dish from sliding down the pole when you loosen the motor clamps to swing the motor/dish left or right. With the motor clamps loose, the motor would be sitting on the exhaust pipe clamp and swinging the motor/dish would be a breeze. Shoutout from Durham Region (Ajax).
The reason I love the H-H Motors si that you don't need extra cables. Just a quad shield RG6U coaxial cable and the 100-120 cm dish. I would recommend MESH dishes for H-H motors. And your receivers is also a positioner. I installed mine in May 2018 a 100 cm Ku Band MESH dish, an AMIKO H-H Motor and recently I replaced the old LNB (which was 4 years old) with a AMIKO ECO L-408 LNB 4 outputs and the signal strength and quality is much higher especially on weak transponders.
Yeah set up like that for Ku band it's so much easier I wish there was like more Ku band channels in North America. Don't we all LOL keep watching 117.8 West
@@RobbieStrike In Europe from Eutelsat 5 West up to TurkemAlem/MonacoSat 52 East, we get hundreds FTA Ku Band channels and with great content. The most tuned are HotBird 13 East (it's exactly like Galaxy 97 West), Astra 19.2 East (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain) Astra 28.2 (UK and Ireland) and depending by the country you can also tune Eutelsat 5 West (Italy and France), Amos 4 West and Astra 4.8 East (Ukraine), Eurobird 9 (Italy, France, Hungary) Eutelsat 16 East (Romania, Albania, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia), Astra 23.5, Badr 26 East (Arabic, movies are in english and subtitles are arabic). Hellassat 39 East (Grece, Bulgaria, Romania), Turksat 42 East (Turkey), Azerspace 46 East (Azerbaijan), Belintersat 51 East (Belarus, Czehia, Slovakia),TurkmenAlem/MonacoSat 52 East If you are in Middle East besides Badr 26 East you can also tune Eutelsat 7 and 8 West still arabic channels.
Up or Down depends SOLELY on the Manufacturer, Example: Mine is a STAB or Fortec Star HH120 and it mounts with the shaft pointing up, NOT down, So be careful and read the instructions. It does make a difference. I think a good indicator might be where the inner mounting holes are located, mine are on the shaft side (Up) and yours are on the opposite side of shaft side (Down), not sure if that's a Universal Law but I just noticed that.
Hi Robbie I discovered your channel a few months ago and appreciate your commitment As a ex Tv editor nearly 35years (CTV) I appreciate your down to earth tutorials.My main interest in FTA reception is basically limited to international radio broadcasters Ex: RAI-RTBF-RFI-REE-NHK-RSI.ect Do FTA setup cover such reception if affirmative what would be a source of information.Thanks keep up the good work.Sincerely
I know there is NHK tv! All services are listed on Lyngsat and www.Sathint.com there is a wack of radio stations on Galaxy 19 some share a channel and will have one station on the left channel and the other on the right! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y4wqeEjo7kI.html
i have to do like you install on a tripod and make a test that's what i'm going to do just for fun because i have no splitters is lnb to the motor and from the motor to the V8 satfinder but i'm not smart like Robbie i'm 73 and no brain have a great summer my friend thanks a lot !
I purchased a package of dish and motor off of Ebay. Starting to assemble. The motor is a SG-2100A, it has a round end like yours but has a cast in ring on the end, like the picture of the motor on the cover of the box. My dish is an Azure Shine, made in Taiwan. The attachment in the back is round expandable flange type of deal, wish I could send a picture. Will I have problems expanding this far enough to place it around the "post" on the motor? Are you familiar with this brand of dish? Thank you, enjoy your videos, think I have seen everyone of them! We are placing a 1 1/2 inch galvanized pipe in the ground, in concrete of course, next week. Am getting tired of moving dish from one satellite to another. One more question, I have two receivers, an Amiko mini 4k UHD S2X and a KOQIT V5HH.265. Think I like the KOQIT better than the Amiko. How can we safely rid the memory of all the scans. Now that I know where the satellites are I can replace everything with fresh information. It is a mess scrolling through things now.
Eh Robbie how are you doing I’m thinking that is not a problem we’ll it’s Brocken you make a brocket in metal like 1”x1/8 rectângulo come from the side were you connecting the cables on motor bands both sides than were is the broken side drills a hole on both sides that will be strong o then sale to me i will fixed Thanks Robbie have a great holidays be safe !
Robbie Strike there are vertical old channels unused anymore but my building has 11 floors :| community don’t agree for antenna for single apartment and building network for all floors can be expensive and I don’t even imagine how many converters and amplifiers should be on the dish and fighting with community is too much effort. I can assume most people say “but I have cable” or “I don’t need tv” etc
Robbie do i need a Satellite Dish Positioner unit for my pc satillite card the card is a TBS6904 S2X/S2/S Need your help please the dish i have is a 1.2 meter
Thanks Robbie for very useful information. I am planning to buy one if this can be used in Sri Lanka. My Latitude is 6.869 N How can I fix this. Do they have different versions for countries closer to the equator?
I can't seem to lock in 87w to save my life. I put the dish back on the stationary pole and 75% signal and 0 quality is all I can get using my gtfinder v8. I have no problem finding 97 99.2 or 103w. If move the motor to one of those and lock the signal in will the dish still be properly aligned to the arc? Do you have any hints as to what I may be doing that is preventing me from locking in 87w? Thanks for your videos, they have really helped me get this fta system going.
Hey Robbie. When I look at Lyngsat, I see some channels are scrambled using MPEG 2 or 4 and Power VU. Are MPEG and Power VU different scrambling systems? I haven't used my C Band dish since 2009. I have lots of questions regarding non-digicipher scrambling systems. What decoders are available to buy so I can connect them to my dish. I'm trying to get back into using my 10.5' BUD. Please help. I'm located in the southern USA and have a clear view of the southern sky.
Robbie do i need a Satellite Dish Positioner unit for my pc satillite card the card is a TBS6904 S2X/S2/S Need your help please the dish i have is a 1.2 meter or do i just connect the motor direct to my card ?
The Sathero is a lot better at picking up week signals. But it is over twice as much. Sathero SH800HD USB2.0 DVB-S2 HD Spectrum Analyzer Digital Satellite Finder dl45 ebay.us/PzlT4r Pro Digital HD TV FTA DVB-S2/T2/Cable Combo Satellite Signal Meter Finder H.265 ebay.us/9e4GZH Hopfully that will help you out. Also check out my playlist with a full video on how to set up a dish. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8Aod5KIeCLQ.html Good day
Is the angle on the motor supposed to be your Latitude, or is it your elevation angle (according to the chart)? (Inquiring minds want to know). I think I srcewed this up
You seemed to have skipped a few steps there showing how to setup the motor drive. On the Koqit K1 I can't find any way to configure it so the SG-2100 is not going to work. I had to get out an older Pansat receiver to make the motor work!
@@RobbieStrike I got a new GTMedia V9 receiver that has a setting for the type of motor but there's no way to make it work so it never moves! I don't think they ever check this stuff to see if it works before releasing the item for sale!
I've been out of the FTA scene for a while now. A couple questions, can I still use my panda 3500 receiver? Are dish/directv channels still accessible? Can I use a standard dish network satellite with a dual lnb for FTA channels?
I explain about what size a dish you need in this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h96UIOIljWk.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5RX_XYhvdDA.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lLsB0cctK3c.html Sit back enjoy and learn!
Hay Robbie I like to buy a big fish I like to get two of them for my home can you help me to get a good one at a good price I live in Florida so if you can help me get set up that will be good if you can send me information on how to get the satellite
I got a motor in the mail should be in this week question about dish pointer? And it puts a white box on the screen does that mean the line of sight is blocked? I'm planning on.a 39" dish
If anyone can tell what I can lock in Ontario Canada east of 87 west. I will do. I dont think I can get Marti TV with the standard LNB. Maybe I should get a Universal for this dish!
No any subscription service is going to have a proprietary receiver and won't have the option to scan in the free channels. There really should be a law that allows them to do that.
What are they saying at the end of the video is you could Loop out your free-to-air receiver or use the combiner and run it to the orbi TV receiver. Or you can just unplug your orby tvreceiver and plug in your free day receiver when you want to use the appropriate receiver.
So this motor only moves from left to right, it does not move up and down? Also I am a bit confused on what satelite finder I should get, at first I wanted to get GTMedia V8 Finder Pro because it supports h265 decoding and also has dvb-t/2/c But after reading some horrible forum posts about how not selective and not sensitive it is and that it doesnt even mesure right I am a bit hesitent to get it I just want some portable device that could move my motor for testing, that would allow me to watch tv on it snd that would have upgradable fw (if its fw is open sourced or custom fw exists (same thing like dreambox has done) that would be a plus, and that would allow me to input custom lnb parameters and transpoder list to it
@@RobbieStrike ok, sorry :) So why you cannot adjust elevation with it? I mean is elevation something which is based on location and you dont nedd to adjust it often? Sorry I hope this question makes sense :)
How are you doing my friend Robbie here from Edmonton alberta what is the name of the receiver makes that go around east to west i like that word I’m só smart Thanks Robbie have a great weekend !
do these work ok with a 1.2 m or is the life short? it looks easier than a actuator and having a second vbox. also can you run it through a diseq 4 way switch?
hi i need advice wher can i buy a 6 foot c band mesh dish under 100 prefably and cheap shipping? id like to hit g15 133west - im not fully sure if I can its low on horizon.
I know with covid www.Tek2000.com supply chain it is hard to know when things will be back in stock! Check out the store at www.FreeSatelliteTV.net The Amiko mini.
CAN YOU DIRECT ME ON THE DIFFERENT SIZE ANTENNAS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE METAL MESS AND THE SOLID ANTENNA HAVE DETERMINED THAT THE BEST RECEIVER Amiko Mini HD265 Wi-Fi FTA Receiver DVB-S2 H.265 HEVC With NTP and Wi-FiLazmin Satellite Finder Satellite Signal Meter, Digital V8 Satellite Signal Finder HD 1080P Signal Strength Meter Detector, 6000 Channels TV and Radio programmable AGPtek Good For Campers Digital Satellite Signal Meter Finder i KNOW THE LNB NEEDS TO BE DUAL -LINEAR- OTHER THAN THAT i DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA I WAS PLANNING ON BUYING A 1.9 OR 2.1 METER ANTENNA BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A ROTOR ON IT CAN YOU HELP ME PLEASE
My first motor lasted me maybe 8 years. The dish blew down a few times. Not good for the motor. I looked at Stab motors. The ones I saw were like the one in the video where it had the wrong shaft fitting. Some egg shaped thing! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-adBFFUlCxTc.html The problem I am seeing is that some online stores ebay and amazon etc, Don't have a photo of the shaft to see if it will fit on my dish! But thanks for the tip. If this one does not last I will try a STAB motor! Maybe they will send me one to do a video on.
Sorry to hear it did not work for you long. Was it weatherd? Mine has fallen had ice fall on it. In freezing cold Canadian winters, In streaming hot humid summers.
Robbie Strike I’m in Texas gets super hot But the STAB motor is now going on about six years with no issues the 2100 I couldn’t get two months out of it before I had to send it back to the factory they put a new board in it then when I went out a second time I just trashed it
I'm going to agree about STAB. I've had one working here for at least 9 years now. I've got a 1 metre commercial dish on a STAB HH90 (designed for 0.9 metre dish) and have pushed it to the limits, and the thing keeps on moving.
what is the point of all this? I mean it's very interesting but all good channels are scrambled it just seems like a lot of work, and I am sure the neighbors love all those dishes in yard
@@RobbieStrike Don't get angry explain it!! what are benefits today is it mostly just a hobby? I remember when I was kid I really wanted one my friend had one I was amazed that he could get multiple HBO's
The hardest part is getting the angles right on the motor and dish you didn't cover this at all useless info .Its like saying aim the dish till it works .
Yet another guy who may know what he is talking about but does not clearly tell his pupils. TYoo many edits jumping thru and abbreviations. Very clever but useless.
