Building A KU
primestar ? never heard of it I'll search EBay now the LNB should be.....LOL yeah I'm scalping ya'll cause I'm cheap/broke anyway but Im' looking here at a Master List of Ku I found......
Your telling me they have room for all this up there and I don't see ONE standard.........I'm not even sure why the US doesn't promote this more as an option............all the networks and subs shoul locate to this...and shoot up and expanded but where JUST the locals where
Your telling me they have room for all this up there and I don't see ONE standard.........I'm not even sure why the US doesn't promote this more as an option............all the networks and subs shoul locate to this...and shoot up and expanded but where JUST the locals where
Primestar is now defunct.
Primestar was one of the earlier DBS providers in the late 90s, owned by the cable companies. They had one bird at 110. They were sold to DirecTV and DirecTV converted everyone over to their platform. Dish eventually got most of the 110 slot. There was also USSB, also acquired by DirecTV.
Primestar was one of the earlier DBS providers in the late 90s, owned by the cable companies. They had one bird at 110. They were sold to DirecTV and DirecTV converted everyone over to their platform. Dish eventually got most of the 110 slot. There was also USSB, also acquired by DirecTV.
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The most common Ku LNBs, at least in this neck of the woods, are 10600 (mainly) and 11300 (10.6Ghz and 11.3Ghz) LO (Local Oscillator) types. Depending on the satellite, you may need a certain LO to receive a certain channel.
For the LNB to work, the transmission frequency (generally ~11-12Ghz) minus the LO frequency, must be in a range the tuner can accept (generally 950-2150Mhz).
I would not recommend aligning a dish without proper equipment.
For the LNB to work, the transmission frequency (generally ~11-12Ghz) minus the LO frequency, must be in a range the tuner can accept (generally 950-2150Mhz).
I would not recommend aligning a dish without proper equipment.
sooo I found a site on this other site that had a "master list" of all the Sats and Channels for KU....and suddenly I'm wondering WHY u would want one....yeah I'm funny like that I originally though just TONS of the Networks where on here...apparently not I only see like two NBC and PBS the rest are variety religious or spanish etc.....or am I seeing this wrong.......
There is a lot up there, but - don't expect too much. It's not like the old free-for-all days of C-band, most of the "good stuff" is now encrypted. FTA is more of a hobbyist thing nowadays. Now, if you can have a C-band dish, it opens up a lot more possibilities, but it's still no "free cable package". There's a lot of totally useless stuff - TONS of religious propaganda and lots of foreign language programming. However, if something you want is available on FTA that you can't get any other way, it's worth the investment of a few hundred dollars. My wife watches a network that would cost us $25 a month to get from Comcast or DirecTV - on top of what they charge for a "base" package. At that rate, I can recover my cost in less than 8 months. Then it's all free...
In many countries, and in places where it's hundreds of miles from the nearest TV transmitters, Ku band is a lot more common than it is in the USA:
In many countries, and in places where it's hundreds of miles from the nearest TV transmitters, Ku band is a lot more common than it is in the USA: