hello mate, can you catch the 55W C-Band ???I am in Albania and have 2.2m dish can i see 47.5w C Band
Thanks Moonbase, that's interesting. It looks like I should try and source at least a 1.8m/2.0m dish?You got very little chance nowadays of locking the ESPN transponders on 40.5W in the UK with a 1.5m dish.
Thanks for the information. I can go as big as a 1.8m/2.0m and maybe at a stretch a 2.4m, but I'm not sure we could have such a large dishBeen looking at this thread a bit. Certainly not discouraging anyone interested in the hobby. It looks like the European continent hasn't really dived into c band so much.
Another site to look at is tvrosat.com. If you're really interested in c band reception, always trust the footprint charts. C band is more robust in snow storms and rain than ku.
Just be advised that you really cannot skimp on dish size. You will not really enjoy the benefits and will quickly say to yourself. I wish I would have gone bigger.
From my experience 2 meters is the very least size of a dish, and even then. Be happy you can get one satellite and a few transponders on it.
8 feet.....2.4m??.....should be your very least dish diameter. And I'm not talking about cheap Chinese junk. If in a kit. Careful and deliberate assembly to get it as accurate as possible.
In the US, 8 feet is the smallest dish anyone considers. In the days of analog satellite they may have been adequate. Digital satellite definitely needs bigger. You'll enjoy pulling your hair out working with a polar mount and setting up and aligning it if you're spoiled using Stab mounts on your baby dishes.
I have a 12 foot...4m?? dish that pulls in pretty much anything in the 133W-47.5W arc that I'm able to have clear view of the sky.
Another thing to realize also. Even with the dish I have. Declination angles will need to be adjusted in the fall and then again in the spring. Very slightly. To keep signals peaked.
Someone who is using a 2m dish and getting marginal signal would just have me shaking my head. Adding a ku lnbf in "sidecar" mounting is a big advantage also.
Legally 1 metre is tops in EnglandThanks for the information. I can go as big as a 1.8m/2.0m and maybe at a stretch a 2.4m, but I'm not sure we could have such a large dish
in our back garden without our neighbours chirping.
I did read somewhere that a large dish can be disguised with clever and imaginative painting to look like a tree/foliage at first glance.
I have never seen this done, but might be our only hope. Trick our neighbours into seeing something that isn't really what it is...lol.
I understand and I know you are right.Legally 1 metre is tops in England
I understand and I know you are right.
My hope would be that we could install it and then not have our neighbours report us.
It's risky, but even now I have 1.2m and it's been up for several years and not a peep from my neighbours.
I guess a lot of us have installations that exceed 1m and are at the mercy of someone complaining if they
chose to do so.
Wow...Moonbase...just wow.Fook the neighbours.
Install the dish on a mobile platform on castors that can be raised to move it around and lowered when it is to be immobilised on satellites.
As it is mobile, it is not classed as a fixed structure, the neighbours can bitch all day long to the council and they can do nowt about it.
Easy to do, I got one on a wooden pallet that I got for nowt from the local builders merchant.
Braced it up with a few lengths of decking and gravel board and bolted some castors and a raise/lower system on the underside.
'ere, cop for some pictures, if I remember correctly the total job cost me less than a bullseye.
I bought the castors and the raise/lower bolts from ebay and got a local welder to weld the nuts onto some off cuts of steel plate they had.
This bad boy takes a 2.2m dish without any worries.
Wow...Moonbase...just wow.
Your ingenuity is inspiring mate. Well done.
Honestly, you have me brimming with ideas now...lol
Council lawWhat is the reasoning for only a 1m reflector in England???
Hi KippysatHello Amdade,
Did I read correctly earlier in the thread that you can pick up the ESPN transponders on 40.5W with a 1.5m dish,
using a C-band lnb and you are based up north? If yes, then are the signals strong?
I am in Hertfordshire, so would hope I could do the same if I tried a C-band set up. There a few sports channels
on 40.5W that would make the work worthwhile.
Thanks Amdade.Hi Kippysat
Im using a 2.4m solid dish for 40.5W, the ESPN channels even with the 2.4m can be tricky. I have to agree with others here I think 1.5 would be too small. I initially started playing with an old IRTE 1.5m antenna for C band and really had no success with what I wanted to get hence the low cost solid 2.4m which has been good for the price I paid.
Not sure what's out there in the UK these days mesh dish wise, not so obvious to the neighbours and come in kit form usually...
Thanks Amdade.
I'm after the ESPN and FOX suite of sports channels. That's may main motivation for doing this.
So it does look like I would have to get a 2.4m dish. I would definitely place it in our back garden on a purpose built
concrete platform/structure.
I would also definitely paint it front and back to look like a tree/foliage to disguise it. Someone who uses this forum
has already said he has done this and could help me with that.
I want to do this because this hobby fascinates me and I love a technical challenge.
What does gone under the RX threshold mean?I was getting the three Fox channels but for reasons unclear they have gone under the RX threshold. Not really made a lot of effort to get them back as there was not much of interest on there when working. Of course I still have the FS2 on the ESPN TP
What does gone under the RX threshold mean?