Motorised Madness

Darzinho

If you were going to splurge and splash out on a motorised dish with access to as many satellites as possible, how much would one expect to pay?

watty

About 100 Euro motor. Light weight 110/100cm triax if sheltered or a 80cm dish if not.

For bigger/heaver/exposed locations you nees an actuator system instead.


Do you have a receivers (which make/model), dish and LNB already.

Almost any digital receiver other than Sky digibox series will work, but some are better.

Any 0.7dB Universal LNB or better, NOT Dual, Twin, Quad or Quattro, only single LNB.

Look out for Diseqc 1.2 with GOTOX extensions on Motor (Motek fine) and GotoX or USALS support on Receiver.

Sometimes GOTOX is called Diseqc 1.3

You'll get 21 to 30 satellites from 42E to 50W approx.

fat-tony

watty wrote:

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You'll get 21 to 30 satellites from 42E to 50W approx.

That's interesting Watty. I'm located at 6W (Wicklow) and I don't receive anything further east than 42E, but I thought it was just my location - got some trees to the east. Have you had experience of receiving any of the sats out to 60E? Out to the West I can receive 58W quite well (presume it's the Spanish beam), but I can't see anything further West than that. My current dish is 90cm and I'm considering going to 110cm if I can find an alloy dish.

watty

I can't get 58W as a house blocks me. 50W is my last westerly. No-one in Ireland will get more west than 58W as the beams point the wrong way. So 58W is only westery one I don't get.

I think there is really only one more than 42E generally getable.

The next few east past 42E either have very little, or not pointing here. Past 60E you are VERY VERY low to horizon so you need a big dish on high ground to reduce ground noise.

Connect a Sat meter and watch the noise as you go past 50E to 70E absolute.

The 45E should be possible, just:
http://www.lyngsat.com/pas12.html

But the Europe beam is mostly feeds. I havn't spotted anything on it yet.
62E is about last possible in Wicklow http://www.lyngsat.com/i902.html on Europe Beam, but very close to horizon. Very high gound and very big dish.

Express AM22 at 53.0°E and NSS 703 at 57.0°E is the only others really, past 42E that is possible on Ireland in Ku Band.

Very little to get and you need a very big dish with clear view on height. Elevation low.

So past 42E or 50W I'm not missing much !

fat-tony

Ok - cheers Watty

kkennedy

watty wrote:

....., NOT Dual, Twin, Quad or Quattro, only single LNB.
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Hi Watty,
why only a single LNB? I was thinking of a dual LNB to feed both my PCI Skystar and STB.
K

Darzinho

I'm talking about the whole system... dish, receiver the lot.