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1.8 Channel Master dishes

  • 20-03-2003 10:54pm
    #1
    sayireland
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    Does anyone know of anywhere which is selling 1.8 Channel Master dishes or dishes of a similar size?


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  • #2
    seano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 371 ✭✭seano


    If you really want one and have a problem getting one in Ireland,let me know.


  • #3
    chernobyl
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    I would say that there is no way you could walk into any retailer and walk out with a CM 1.8.
    I would imagine that it will be imported from the UK and a significant cost to you and then there is tranport cost on this side for you.

    ...i would prepare yourself for €1000+ on the dish and then you have to get a suitable CM lnb to maximise the dish performance.

    Why not just go for a 1.8 prime focus dish which can be obtained pretty cheap here.


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Biggest retail I seen here is 1.2m in Urlan TV.

    1.8m has serious wind loading. You would want some advice or expertise in mounting.

    Even a 90cm dish becomes serious at end of 6ft pole instead of a normal bracket (Used for LOS 2.4Ghz link... Now I know why Eircom uses "pylons". Anyone want a L shaped pole?)


  • #5
    Capt'n Midnight
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    ..if you have a walled garden with a nice aspect.
    (Though my minidish is actually mounted 1 foot off the ground in case any cats walk past)

    A bigger dish will provide the LNB with a stronger signal, but a shorter, better quality cable will improve the signal from the LNB into the receiver (a lower noise LNB also helps).

    So worth looking at using new cable - properly waterproofed with amalgating tape and make the cable run as short as possible (one trick here is a remote control extender) otherwise you might loose all the advantages of a larger dish.


  • #6
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    LNB output is really an IF signal. It is at a high level preamplified by a MMIC line driver. Unless the cable is bad any station you don't get with a 20m cable you won't get with a 2m cable.


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  • #7
    Tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,341 ✭✭✭✭Tony


    Originally posted by chernobyl


    Why not just go for a 1.8 prime focus dish which can be obtained pretty cheap here.


    Where?

    Desktop PC Boards discount code on https://www.satellite.ie/ is boards.ie



  • #8
    chernobyl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭chernobyl


    I have seen dish's in the past, in the buy and sell. Examples were a 1.5M prime focus for €200 but you had to collect it yourself and a 1.8 prime focus for €500 but again, you had to collect it. The latter even came with the proper feedhorn..so good deal imo.


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