have 19.2 wanting hotbird

kooga

i have an existing sky 60cm dish with quad lnb pointing at astra 19.2.
i realise to get a good hotbird signal i need a bigger dish, looking at between 80cm - 90cm.

How much of the existing set up can i use, can i reuse the wall bracket for my new bigger dish and the sky quad lnb on this dish?
if i can re use the quad lnb for 19.2 (3 sat receivers on this in the house) what is the best way of incorporating a single lnb for hotbird.
or would a high quality quad monoblock lnb be the best option (3outputs for 19.2 and 1 for hotbird 13). I'm in cork city thanks again

Peter Rhea

A monoblock quad would have both satellite positions available on all 4 outputs & seems a tidy solution, with all the switching integrated into 1 unit. Including 28 east on any of these feeds would require a separate switch though.

Most of the posters in the satellite forums here use individual lnbs with separate brackets for their multi-sat. setups, as this allows separate, uncompromised adjustment of each lnb.

The Sky quad, although intended for the Sky dish shape, might be alright for 19 east, on a 'round' dish. If it's not good enough, you can always replace it with the correct type.

kooga

tks peter will leave 28.2 on its own on its existing dish as its an octo lnb doing sky hd and freesat.

any particular lnb brands you would recommend?

on another note will update elsewhere hopefully this week on the SDS installation

Peter Rhea

I'd doubt lnb choice is critical for 13 east on an 80 or 90cm dish. Maybe the dish supplier will have a deal on something.

If you go with 2 separate lnbs, I would try the Sky quad on 19 east.

STB

kooga wrote: »

tks peter will leave 28.2 on its own on its existing dish as its an octo lnb doing sky hd and freesat.

any particular lnb brands you would recommend?

on another note will update elsewhere hopefully this week on the SDS installation

Inverto Black Ultra.

The HD Channels for Cyfra are not as strong as the SD ones and require tweaking.

tapfit2004

Peter Rhea wrote: »

I'd doubt lnb choice is critical for 13 east on an 80 or 90cm dish. Maybe the dish supplier will have a deal on something.

If you go with 2 separate lnbs, I would try the Sky quad on 19 east.

I have about 8 sky quads on a wave frontier t90 dish and have no problems with any transponders that are receiveable in Ireland (even in rain) on 28e, 19e, 16e, 13e, 9e, 5e, 1w and 8w.

There are some transponders that aren't great on 1w but they weren't great on my 1m dish with a proper lnb that suited the dish.

The sky quads I'm using are the ones where the bracket can be removed and I filed off the plastic bumps that hold it in the angled position for 28e so as it fits the t90 brackets. Maybe they work well as the t90 is oval shaped like the sky dish.

I agree that the lnb isn't critical on 19e or 13e onec the dish is above 80cm.

kooga

got hotbird in today on an 80cm dish in cork really booming signal intensity 90% and quality 80%

snaps

kooga wrote: »

got hotbird in today on an 80cm dish in cork really booming signal intensity 90% and quality 80%

take no notice of the signal meter on your receiver, its a general mesutement they throw out. Are you getting nc+? If so canal+ hd channels will be the test, they sometimes fade in bad weather.

kooga

snaps wrote: »

take no notice of the signal meter on your receiver, its a general mesutement they throw out. Are you getting nc+? If so canal+ hd channels will be the test, they sometimes fade in bad weather.

while not subscribed to them i scanned them in and they are both 70%+

snaps

kooga wrote: »

while not subscribed to them i scanned them in and they are both 70%+

like I said, the built in signal meters mean nothing. I was getting 79% strength and 89% quality on the canal+family hd channel. As soon as it rained they went. I have a professional meter. I usually measure in db. As an example, bbc1 hd on a 60cm sky dish in mayo was coming in around 18.7 db. Canal+ family hd on hotbird was coming in at around 12.6db on an 80cm. Yet the signal meter on the receiver was showing the same quality/strength for both channels (give or take a few percent). Even here in Poland an 80cm is recommended for those channels (im only getting 15.8db here in south east Poland on an 80cm).