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looking for a Dish

  • 02-03-2006 11:40pm
    #1
    westportman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭


    Hi all
    I am looking to buy a Dish and lnb. can anyone recomend a good make and which one would be the best to go for i was thinking the 90cm one. any thoughts at all?
    many thanks


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


    Triax 88cm or 1.1m
    With a 1.1m dish any decent LNB will do. Dish size more important than LNB. Very little difference between 0.3dB and 0.6dB NF on LNB.

    What satellite? Or are you getting a motor?


  • #3
    westportman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭westportman


    watty wrote:
    Triax 88cm or 1.1m
    With a 1.1m dish any decent LNB will do. Dish size more important than LNB. Very little difference between 0.3dB and 0.6dB NF on LNB.

    What satellite? Or are you getting a motor?


    I only really want 19E and 13E and maybe a few more, i am only new to all this so i am, not to sure what you can get and not get the dish will be fixed as well. i was thinking of going for the 85CM dish not the 90.


  • #4
    westportman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭westportman


    can you get all the channels on 19E and 13E with a 85CM dish? ,i have got the TM 1500+ FTA Box


  • #5
    Chaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Chaz


    I use a 76cm in Dundalk and pick up 13, 19, 28 easily - good signals.


  • #6
    westportman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭westportman


    Chaz wrote:
    I use a 76cm in Dundalk and pick up 13, 19, 28 easily - good signals.

    hi there Chaz
    Thanks for the info, so i should have no problem with a 85Cm dish then at all i would guss.


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  • #7
    Greenman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,962 ✭✭✭Greenman


    westportman wrote:
    Hi all
    can anyone recomend a good make

    Triax is your only man!!!!


  • #8
    joePC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭joePC


    I have a SKY Dish + Lnb + Cabling, you will need to get a mounting for it but you can have it all for €50, PM me if your interested.


  • #9
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    westportman wrote:
    hi there Chaz
    Thanks for the info, so i should have no problem with a 85Cm dish then at all i would guss.

    Yes 70cm is minimum really, but as big as you can afford is good :)

    On the Western Seaboard we get more rain and heavier. That's when the dish size is critical and why I want to upgrade my motorised dish from 80cm to 1.1m as I lose feeds in heavy rain.


    The Sky dish is too small for reliable multiLNB use and too small even as fixed dish for some hotbird channels in Rain.


  • #10
    westportman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭westportman


    watty wrote:
    Yes 70cm is minimum really, but as big as you can afford is good :)

    On the Western Seaboard we get more rain and heavier. That's when the dish size is critical and why I want to upgrade my motorised dish from 80cm to 1.1m as I lose feeds in heavy rain.


    The Sky dish is too small for reliable multiLNB use and too small even as fixed dish for some hotbird channels in Rain.


    Hi there
    Triax is the best one to go for is it?


  • #11
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    yes.


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  • #12
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Yea, I also think Triax make great dishes. Robust, and very resilient to rusting.


  • #13
    westportman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭westportman


    Hi all
    can anyone tell me a good make of a lnb to go for, what would be the best to go for?


  • #14
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Any 0.3dB or 0.6dB "non-Sky dish" Single Universal LNB. About 15 Euro is reasonable to spend
    www.maplin.co.uk or www.satellite.ie or Lidl when they occasionally have stocks.

    It's not worth geting a really expensive one.

    For a fixed dish pointed or used with multiple LNBs for 28E (Sky channels) it is worth having a QUAD LNB to watch BBC in one room and ITV in a different room. About 50 Euro for a Quad.


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