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New Sat set up

  • 03-01-2006 10:30am
    #1
    sikes
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    Hi, i am looking for advice so bear with me while i try to explain what i hope to get.

    We have a sky box running off a single lnb sky dish. Recently our terresterial reception for the uk channels has gone to the pits, so i was thinking of changing the sat to a regular 60cm and putting an octo lnb on it.

    One would run the sky box downstaris while up in the attic i will get 7 second hand sky boxes and loop the outputs through and sent down the coax cable that presently serves the aerial.

    I would then like to get another dish, a motorised one, mainly for hotbird for the footy but also to pick up feeds on 16 and any other random crap that takes my interest. What size dish should i be looking at for this?

    And finally although prob in the wrong section, i still have to be able to pick up the irish terrestrial channels crisp and clear. what aerial do i get that only picks them up and not the bbc etc so as not to get intereference when piping the other channels through from the sky boxes.

    Thanks for any help and i hope i make sense.


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  • #2
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    80cm / 90cm is cheap.

    1.1m is better but starting to get pricey.

    Regular hh Diseqc motors (and possibly walls, poles etc) get unhappy with larger dishes.

    With a very cheap 80cm dish I get over 1500 TV and 1300 Radio FTA from roughly 20 satellites.


    For Irish TV pick a Yagi or correct or next group up for your location. About 21 element and then an attenutor if need be at bottom of down lead.

    Use CT100 sat cable for the TV aerial too.

    Recommend a Motek motor and any FTA digital receiver with USALS or GOTOX where you type in your Lat and Long. Once one satellite is setup correctly and "zero" of dish motor point true due south (not magnetic south ) then all the satellite positions that can be received work.

    Of the top of my head
    42E
    39E
    36E
    28E
    24E
    19E
    16E
    13E
    10E
    7E
    5E
    1W
    5W
    8W
    12.5W
    15W
    NSS7 is ??W
    Hispasat 30W
    Pas ? @ 40W?
    Pas ? @ 45W

    I think all work on 80cm. Plus a few more with occasional feeds.

    There is one more east and one more west than this list, but elevation is low so you are easily blocked. I am.


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