installer question

[jellison1]

has anyone installed a vertical shim kit on any dway/hughesnet lnb/transmitter?

 

[HCI]

Yes, the .98 dishes are using a VSK on the 99 bird
give me one second and I will find you some info.

 

[jellison1]

ii got one to install tommorrow and was wondering if you had any tips

 

[HCI]

Here you go. They are a piece of cake to install. The LNB will look funny after it is installed so be prepared. It will be Horizontal instead of Vertical to the Dish.

http://elearning.hughesnet.com/Login/index.aspx

 

[HCI]

Do you have the transponder you are going to?

 

[jellison1]

13k 1210 Mhz

 

[HCI]

I cannot find my paperwork on it but I think the 7000 already has a V transmit transponder "EDIT: on G4R" on it it that one does not work.

Did you check out the file I attached?

Let me know on the signal and XPOL if you would.
Thanks

 

[jellison1]

thanks i will

 

[jellison1]

how do like the new "Raven" dishes?

 

[HCI]

I have had nothing but problems with them. Not with finding the signal or the crosspol, but as far as the parts being missing. I have had 4 or 5 with missing plates that go under the skew plate. I have had 10 or more with the skew arrow backwards and just about every one I have is hard to fit on the pole or trimast.

I like them in the sense of the look compared to the Shannon dishes but I don't like how inconsistent the engineering of them are.

How do you like them?

 

[jellison1]

everything you said plus im tired of cutting the hell outta my hands...lol

 

[HCI]

everything you said plus im tired of cutting the hell outta my hands...lol

I second that.

I don't know what the hell they were thinking with that piece on the back that sticks out to cut your knuckles everytime you try to tighted the bolts down. Also I was pissed off they are designed so you cannot use a ratchet, you have to use a wrench.

 

[jellison1]

that plate on the back is for that piece of crap "fine tune" adjustment tool that i threw away 2 years ago

 

[jellison1]

ive started taking the plate off.....ive noticed if you take those 2 nuts all the way off too remove the plateits much easier to put on the pole or tri-mast

 

[jellison1]

oh and go to home depot or lowes and spend the 20 bucks and get a ratchet wrench....those things are worth their weight in gold

 

[HCI]

I was thinking about buying one till I saw they were 50 bucks are better. "EDIT: the vertical elevation tool"

 

[jellison1]

thats for a set you can get em for 20 seperatley and you know you really only need a 1/2 "

 

[HCI]

oh and go to home depot or lowes and spend the 20 bucks and get a ratchet wrench....those things are worth their weight in gold

All the ones I have seen are in kits. Can you get them in just single wrenches?

 

[HCI]

lol. We are off track here.

 

[jellison1]

yeah the wrenches you can buy seperatley that tool was a $25 piece of crap IMHO