Originally Posted by Skip Channel Well, not all of us can do anything other than direct-to-home!  (Can't find a tearful smilie!)
But if these things can be made more efficient (I'm a dummy but if I take what's been published at face value...) and cheap enough then people like myself can put 'em on their windowsills! Newer, more powerful birds will help (of course that all goes out the window(!) if these newer birds are more focused on another part of Europe!) |
I don't see how it could possibly be "more efficient"! The "aperture" of a sat antenna - how much signal it can collect, and then focus on the lnb horn - can be no greater than the lens or dish cross sectional area. Anything else just isn't physics. It would be nice if somebody found a way to get a big signal from a small dish, but there's just the tiny snag that it's impossible (if you could do that, then somebody else would have, ages ago!).
Presumably, the lens special design makes it easier to "space" several different lnbs, which would seem to be the point, but the local field strength for each one must still be fairly high.
(It would be nice if they gave actual performance (gain) figures!).