- Joined
- Jan 1, 2000
- Messages
- 16,257
- Reaction score
- 4,217
- Points
- 113
- Age
- 82
- My Satellite Setup
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Triple Dragon, Dreambox 8000, Echostar AD3000ip, TBS6522,6925,6983 PCie cards.
Gibertini 1.25m motorised dish driven by the AD3000, with either Inverto BU Quad or Norsat / XMW Ka LNBs . SMW 1.05m + 3 other dishes. Speccy: Promax HD Ranger+
- My Location
- The Flatlands of East Anglia
Choosing the right dish when contemplating having a go at Ka band frequencies can be frustrating.
My best results have been with a Triax TD88 so far; oddly my Triax TD 110 doesn't give anything like the same results dB-wise, often two or three dBs down on the same TP as the TD88. This with fine adjustment of focus, skew etc.
It's the same with my Gibertini 1.25m and SMW 1.05M. They barely match results compared to the TD88. It's possibly down to slight imperfections in the surface area of larger dishes, unless you have one much larger, say 1.5m +, which might be forgiving of small imperfections.
These were purely subjective tests on my part - other makes of dishes might yield different results.
So thinking small can be better, for me at least.
Tested over different times of the day and different days, with a Norsat 9000 + FD9000 feed , and an XMW R9215HDF+ modified Feed (taken from a broken Inverto Saorsat LNB )
My best results have been with a Triax TD88 so far; oddly my Triax TD 110 doesn't give anything like the same results dB-wise, often two or three dBs down on the same TP as the TD88. This with fine adjustment of focus, skew etc.
It's the same with my Gibertini 1.25m and SMW 1.05M. They barely match results compared to the TD88. It's possibly down to slight imperfections in the surface area of larger dishes, unless you have one much larger, say 1.5m +, which might be forgiving of small imperfections.
These were purely subjective tests on my part - other makes of dishes might yield different results.
So thinking small can be better, for me at least.
Tested over different times of the day and different days, with a Norsat 9000 + FD9000 feed , and an XMW R9215HDF+ modified Feed (taken from a broken Inverto Saorsat LNB )
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