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Hello, My trusty Motorised Triax 1.1 is having a hard time with Nilesat ( although I did watch Real Madrid Tues night ..just 44% ) So I would be interested to hear from anyone who is getting 7w and what size dish (fixed for me) may be suitable.
 
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Moved your thread to the Fringe reception section, there are at least a couple of threads in this section discussing reception in Wales, use nilesat as a search term and it will throw them up.:)
 
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Thanks Rolfw.
 
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Great info. I already have most of my answers. ( should have searched Nilesat here Rolfw hmm no need for my post really)
Nice info renibacterium.
Looks like a 2.4 dish, which I have room for, will be required. I had already been Googling but very costly answers. Maplin, never thought to look there but looks like the answer and within my price range £189 and with mounts.
At 3.3 long 52.5 lat would I get away with a Maplin 1.85m dish. thanks.
 
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On hold at mo. After quite a bit of reading ..The Ma*lin dish (Fortec star ?) is a bit flimsy and suspect performance. May have to dig a bit deeper for more solid dish.
 
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frund said:
On hold at mo. After quite a bit of reading ..The Ma*lin dish (Fortec star ?) is a bit flimsy and suspect performance. May have to dig a bit deeper for more solid dish.
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The Fortec dishes that maplin sell are a pile of SH..... er poo. I had a play with a 1.8m one recently and didn't get much better results than I get from my TD110. They are really flimsy, I wouldn't want to leave one out in a breeze.
I get a lock on 11862v (i think it is) and can scan the channels in with my TM500 and TD110. Can't watch them though, it just about scans them.
 
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frund said:
On hold at mo. After quite a bit of reading ..The Ma*lin dish (Fortec star ?) is a bit flimsy and suspect performance. May have to dig a bit deeper for more solid dish.
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Dont waste your money on a maplin dish. they are indeed extremely flimsy - one of our members had one which folded up in a winter gale and was removed in bin bags!!
 
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A persoal opinion about 7w:
If you use an offset dish look for da LASER GOLD 0.3db excellent for this bird

If you use a PFA dish go for Inverto Flange

For Ku band it's not recomanded to use 6 or more paneled dishes , and the chinesse dishes never ever:)
 
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Just as well I didn't rush in and by a pile of ... trouble. The price was so tempting. I am not after the showtime just the sport EG:- on the vertical 11823 tuesday night, footy, and ok untill 11.15pm with my triax. There may be other TP's this season that I would like to scan. I can see, from reading, the horizontal's are extremely difficult. So still on hold.
 
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