Es HailSat 2 location
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Re: Es HailSat 2 location
I have a 65cm Solid offset dish but it sounds as if its going to be a bit marginal. If I treat myself to a 1M dish, are there any RF performance benefits from a solid vs mesh dish? Clearly a lot of extra windage to deal with and about a £10 price difference. Buy once and all that.....
Gareth
Gareth
Re: Es HailSat 2 location
Hi you would be far better with a solid dish and personally i would go for a 1.2 theirs not much difference in price, winds over 50mph a mesh dish has the same wind load as a solid .radiogareth wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:27 amI have a 65cm Solid offset dish but it sounds as if its going to be a bit marginal. If I treat myself to a 1M dish, are there any RF performance benefits from a solid vs mesh dish? Clearly a lot of extra windage to deal with and about a £10 price difference. Buy once and all that.....
Gareth
Re: Es HailSat 2 location
I've seen lots of 110cm dishes advertised but not any 120cm. Any suggested suppliers please?
73 Barry G8AGN
73 Barry G8AGN
Re: Es HailSat 2 location
Hi Barry this company do them https://www.satellitetvshop.co.uk/1.2m-satellite-dish if you google you will find cheaper models, the used market is a good place to look as well i would recommend trying to find a 1.2 channel master there a great dish last forever eBay gumtree is a good place to look.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Satellite-Di ... llite+dish
Re: Es HailSat 2 location
I receive Es'Hail with no problems (after extremely fine tuning of the dish position) initially I used an 80cm sky dish with a standard very cheap LNB from Ebay and a minitiouner.
I have also received it very well on a cheap £20 satellite receiver (also from Ebay) using the same LNB and an ADX-Plus up converter which adds 500MHz to the IF frequency and brings the LNB output within the tuning range of the receiver.
Not that the ADX-Plus frequency is not very accurate and will need to be measured before programming the satellite receiver. I have two ADX's one on 498.7MHz and another on 495.1 Mhz - this is near enough for wide bandwidth broadcast TV but not accurate enough for narrow bandwidth TV.
When I set up the transponder I entered 10492.5MHz + 495 = 10987.5MHz for the frequency and symbol rate of 2000
you might have to play with the polarisation - I turned the LNB through 90 degrees for the minitiouner.
I have also received it very well on a cheap £20 satellite receiver (also from Ebay) using the same LNB and an ADX-Plus up converter which adds 500MHz to the IF frequency and brings the LNB output within the tuning range of the receiver.
Not that the ADX-Plus frequency is not very accurate and will need to be measured before programming the satellite receiver. I have two ADX's one on 498.7MHz and another on 495.1 Mhz - this is near enough for wide bandwidth broadcast TV but not accurate enough for narrow bandwidth TV.
When I set up the transponder I entered 10492.5MHz + 495 = 10987.5MHz for the frequency and symbol rate of 2000
you might have to play with the polarisation - I turned the LNB through 90 degrees for the minitiouner.