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Sky & Freesat fringe reception
Astra 2d in Sweden
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<blockquote data-quote="archive10" data-source="post: 759031"><p>One thing is what you can talk the installers into - antoher is how much you want to invest, both in terms of price of dish, but also in terms of creating the mount etc.</p><p></p><p>The Channel Masters are fab, but expensive. And you need a serious mounting - it's not something you stick to a 5 cm pole bolted to the gables of your house. (The dish w. mount itself is around 80 kg, so you need sturdy mounting, and moreover it presents a massive sail to the november storms, so you need to fix it to something that really doesn't move.)</p><p></p><p>People do seem to get reasonable results with 150 cm Gibertinis or better 180 cm Laminas (Polish). But again you need proper mounting, or you will at best need to re-align dish after storm, at worst watch your dish head for the neighbour's greenhouse or new car to do some damage. (I found my Jonsa/FortecStar at the end of the garden after a bit of wind one night...)</p><p></p><p>Once you've got the dish settled, make sure you have an Inverto Black Ultra Quad (or dual, but price diff is minimal) LNB, these seem to be particularly good for us in the Nordics, as they have very good Horizontal/vertical separation, and give really good results here in scandinavia (where the horizontals are really difficult to get). They are also relatively in-expensive (compared to Global Invacom LNBs, which othewise are considered top-notch).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="archive10, post: 759031"] One thing is what you can talk the installers into - antoher is how much you want to invest, both in terms of price of dish, but also in terms of creating the mount etc. The Channel Masters are fab, but expensive. And you need a serious mounting - it's not something you stick to a 5 cm pole bolted to the gables of your house. (The dish w. mount itself is around 80 kg, so you need sturdy mounting, and moreover it presents a massive sail to the november storms, so you need to fix it to something that really doesn't move.) People do seem to get reasonable results with 150 cm Gibertinis or better 180 cm Laminas (Polish). But again you need proper mounting, or you will at best need to re-align dish after storm, at worst watch your dish head for the neighbour's greenhouse or new car to do some damage. (I found my Jonsa/FortecStar at the end of the garden after a bit of wind one night...) Once you've got the dish settled, make sure you have an Inverto Black Ultra Quad (or dual, but price diff is minimal) LNB, these seem to be particularly good for us in the Nordics, as they have very good Horizontal/vertical separation, and give really good results here in scandinavia (where the horizontals are really difficult to get). They are also relatively in-expensive (compared to Global Invacom LNBs, which othewise are considered top-notch). [/QUOTE]
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