Es HailSat 2 location

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radiogareth
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Re: Es HailSat 2 location

Post by radiogareth » Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:27 am

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

satdxer
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Re: Es HailSat 2 location

Post by satdxer » Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:33 am

radiogareth wrote:
Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:27 am
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
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 :o .

G8AGN
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Re: Es HailSat 2 location

Post by G8AGN » Thu Jan 31, 2019 8:23 pm

I've seen lots of 110cm dishes advertised but not any 120cm. Any suggested suppliers please?

73 Barry G8AGN

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Re: Es HailSat 2 location

Post by satdxer » Fri Feb 01, 2019 12:47 am

G8AGN wrote:
Thu Jan 31, 2019 8:23 pm
I've seen lots of 110cm dishes advertised but not any 120cm. Any suggested suppliers please?

73 Barry G8AGN
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

satdxer
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Re: Es HailSat 2 location

Post by satdxer » Fri Feb 01, 2019 12:55 am

G8AGN wrote:
Thu Jan 31, 2019 8:23 pm
73 Barry G8AGN
Hi Barry ive just noticed your in Sheffield ? if so i could fix you up with a used 1.2 channel master.

G8AGN
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Re: Es HailSat 2 location

Post by G8AGN » Fri Feb 01, 2019 2:59 pm

Where are you?

Barry

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Re: Es HailSat 2 location

Post by satdxer » Sun Feb 03, 2019 6:47 pm

G8AGN wrote:
Fri Feb 01, 2019 2:59 pm
Where are you?

Barry
Hi Barry near Crystal Peaks Hackenthorpe you should have a PM.

g7ntg
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Re: Es HailSat 2 location

Post by g7ntg » Tue Feb 26, 2019 3:28 pm

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.

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