Dish and bracket advice

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laserquest

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My Satellite Setup
Dreambox 500s,Gibertini motorised dish,Titanium 0.2db LNB
My Location
Birmingham UK
2 questions really -I've got to go and sort out this satellite setup (photo enclosed).

I wonder if someone could tell me

a) what size they reckon that dish is, and
B) the maximum size of dish I'm likely to be able to put on the bracket.
 
That looks like a 60cm dish, possibly 70cm. Th bracket would probably take a 90cm, but depends where you want to point the dish, as the roof may foul the dish.
 
Could be a 70 cm dish - the bracket could take a 90 cm but it depends on how exposed the site is to wind (weather looks great just now).

The roof may restrict the size of dish. What satellite/s are you trying to pick up?

It may just need re-aligned.

Honest I didn't copy Rolfw!
 
gameboy said:
Honest I didn't copy Rolfw!
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Sure you're not his long-lost identical twin? :-rofl2

Llew
 
Lol thanks for the replies folks!

Well, my brief is to make sure my friends at their holiday home in France (lucky devils) can get just a few english channels. I am therefore going to try for Astra 2D (although I realise a bigger dish may well be needed). I suspect a new run on satellite cable will be needed at the very least!

Failing that, as long as they can get BBC World and Sky News they'll be happy.
The box I'm planning to take out there is a Technomate 1500CI+ Super. Would this be adequate?
 
It really depends on where in France the house is situated.

You can check out the beams and dish sizes, for France, on the Astra site here...

_http://www.ses-astra.com/corpSite/site_en/04_ASTRAFleet/satellite_list/astra2d/index.php
 
That dish (if it is 60cm) should do for most of France, apart from the South West corner.
 
Could be smaller than a 60 even.
I would have said 50cm looking at the pole dia and relative LNB size.


Just my tuppence worth.



L:)
 
We ought to have a little book on this. :)

I reckon that the bracket is 2" steel, so measuring from the photograph, that would make the dish 60cm in width.
 
I was going for a one and a half inch pole there hence the smaller guess.


L.:)
 
It certainly looks more substantial than my £2.99 Lidl jobby!:-rofl2
 
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