Telecom 2C

The Cigarette Smoking Man · 11-10-2002 12:12pm #1

Anyone know if an 80cm dish would do the job to get the analogue French channels on Telecom 2C?

http://www.satcodx9.com/3550/eng/

Tony · 11-10-2002 12:37pm

its marginal but you should get half decent pictures

Tony

The Cigarette Smoking Man · 11-10-2002 12:52pm

Thanks for the reply Tony. Would an 88cm Triax be much better?

Tony · 11-10-2002 4:07pm

not really much of a difference although the better quality dishes like triax and channel master tend to be more efficient. Try using a good low noise lnb also.

Good luck

chernobyl · 11-10-2002 4:42pm

Originally posted by Tony
Try using a good low noise lnb also.

Good luck

Sure, but i think its of more importance to use a LNb that is designed with your dish in mind...

Im sorry i cannot offer you any proper help as i have no satellite equipment here.

Channel Master dishs have specific LNbf's made for them and they absolutely maximise the surface area of this dish.

Its a great crime to but a 1.0/1.2 and even greater dish to just fix a standard LNb to it which will not see the complete reflector and defeats their entire purpose of a bigger dish.

Tony · 11-10-2002 6:34pm

thats true but the 80cm is designed with standard universal lnbs in mind, even the 1.2 does not show any measurable difference between using the CM feedhorn and a standard lnb

Tony

chernobyl · 11-10-2002 6:45pm

Something learned then.
I cannot speak with any confidence about Telecom 2C so i am of little use here.

I think noise, albeit the lack of noise will be your problem.
You are aiming for a Satellite with a weak beam and left and right those Satellites will not even register any signal on a 1M dish.

I mean..for a bird like 16E a low noise LNb is critical as you have nulcear power @ 13/19 and somewhere in between that noise, you have 16.

I hope you nail it.

Telecom 2C

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