Big dish or mini dish?

JohnDigital

I have just moved house and inherited a 1.1m Triax dish and single LNB. The dish was originally pointing at Hotbird on 13e but I swung it around to get Astra for my Sky system. I am now getting about 90% for both signal & quality on Astra without even trying to fine tune it, which is pretty fantastic.

I am getting Sky+ at the weekend, which comes with a new mini dish and quad LNB so this dish is probably going to be redundant. I was wondering have I anything to gain from using this dish rather than the mini dish? I can’t really see any difference in picture quality compared with my old mini dish on the last house that had about 70% signal & 80% quality. I presume I am going to get the same sort of quality from a mini dish as almost every house on the road has one and they are all doing fine.

I guess fitting the quad LNB wont be a straightforward task on the Triax dish, so I am leaning towards just using the neater mini dish. What do you lot reckon?

Ronan|Raven

If ya dont want it ill take it off yer hands for a small handling charge Personally I would keep it. Motorise it and use it to pick up all manner of satellites! Much more interesting that sky!

Tony

you cannot use the quad lnb that comes with sky + as its specificially designed to work with a mindish so as Ronan says keep it for FTA or motorise it.

Tony