*Choice dish for Analog Ku?

[mediawatch]

This is my first posting, so I hope I am in the right general area.

I have an old but working 36" StarChoice dish and (older flashlight dual - not stacked) LNB. I also have a 10-foot C-Band BUD running off of a working, subscribed GI-2500R receiver w/ VC2RS decoder.

I am not really interested in getting the Ku dish to move remotely. I would be happy to just permanently mount it on SBS6 to catch some Nascar feeds this coming racing season.

Has anyone on this forum done anything like this? Where would I start? I have NO manual for the 2500 so getting it to move to Ku, or switch back and forth, might be the most problematic part. I am also wondering the safest and best way to port the Ku signal into the house and mate it to my existing system.

I have experience in mounting, pointing and setting up C-band, *Choice and BEV systems, although I'm a little rusty lately. Pointing, finding the satellite, etc. are not problems for me. I want to know the most workable and convenient integration of the C-band feed and the Ku feed at the back of the 2500R and the switching between them.

For instance, I'm using a mechanical polarotor for my C-band feed, and the Ku LNB is dual polarity with voltage switching. Is there any way I can integrate the two methods so that my receiver knows what polarity commands to send to the respective LNBs? I would be happy to even switch the Ku dish manually if that's what it takes.

Any advice, or suggested links, would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

mediawatch@ziplip.com

[cUl8tr]

Can you rename a satellite in the 2500 and configure it for Ku? With old IRDs I used to rename the newer satellites to something the IRD would respond to , even though it was not a known satellite at the time. You sound technical enough, how bout one of those slide on slide off F-connector fron Rat Shack. Just label each coax feed as where its from . A inexpensive alternative for something you are only going to use on race weekends. Move the dish(as far as the IRD knows..) and slide on the connector for the Ku feed. And you are right, if you can point it to SBS6 and LEAVE IT THERE, you are better off. C/Ku band dishes always have some pointing error from the actuator arm in Ku. They just are not that accurate at the consumer level.

[mediawatch]

Thanks!

I'll try to play with the programming of the 2500 to see if it will accept a former or current known Ku bird, and see then if it tries to see through the *Choice dish.

I'll post any successes or failures down the road...