Why can't feeds be received on an 80cm dish?

[c.barber]

Hi All,

I have been told that for most feeds, apart from a few on 16e, that I need at least a 1m dish for them even the UK feeds

Why is this when the UK feeds are on the Europe/UK Beam of the satellite, and I can get the normal channels on that beam fine!


Can anyone explain?

Any help appreciated

C.Barber

 

[Analoguesat]

Most feeds are transmitted at lower power. Providers strap several frequencies across one transponder, and split the power across them.. Go to the lyngsat page for 16E and look at the transponder number for each feed (left hand column) and you will see what I mean.

 

[c.barber]

ah yes. ok thanks for your help

 

[Jeff_19341]

Perhaps a more sensitive receiver (such as one from the Technomate range) and more accurate pointing would help. 85cm dish somewhere near you seems to get the feeds that I want to watch. Bigger the dish the higher the gain and a well known make also has a better performance.
JuMbuCk

 

[c.barber]

Think I might try getting some feeds again later this week, on 16e or something. I do have a 0.3db LNB, which I find gives me 100% signal quality on 30w on most of the transponders