Size matters - how bigs yours?

rparkera

I bought a Maplin satellite suitcase kit in August and used it in West Cork, Ireland - got great reception on Astra 2, Astra 1 and Hotbird without any trouble - on a 35cm dish and with the great little Comag SL65 /12. Very impressive and comprehensive kit.

It made me think - how big a dish do you really need? So a question to the dishmeisters on this site - forget your 1.8m megadishes for a moment! If there's good reception at -8.3 W with a 13" dish - how small a dish can we get away with for the stronger signals on the more poular satellites in the UK? I'm thinking a parabolic shaped cooking strainer might do it - any experiences or suggestions ....

Cheers guys

Rd100

I have a 1.2m Andrews and a fixed 1.8m prime focus which i use for the horizontal channels on nilesat 7'w and it is needed any small will not pull the channels in

rolfw

Horses for course, you have to use the right dish for the required satellite, if all you want is the most powerful birds, then a small dish is fine. I have an 80cm dish and I'm often left high and dry when looking for feeds on many satellites.

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wod

so upgrade to a 1m then rolfw