Dish Dimensions

[ra36uk]

Hello everyone. I am a first time poster and newbie so bare with me please.

I want to fit a dish in a space between 2 walls. Due to this I dont want the dish to be bigger than 80x80 cm, so I am trying to find the dish with the best results in this size.
I see the td 78 lists it's sizes as 57cm x78cm, is this true?
It doesn't look oval so I find it hard to believe it's only 57cm high.
Is there another dish in this sort of size you'd recommend?
It will be for a motorised system in south east and want to get best margins possible for the dish size.
Was looking at the Fracarro as well but not to keen on it due to it's shape, prefer traditional round/oval dish.
Any recommendations?
Thank you

 

[Lazarus]

The TD88, being a proper dish, is higher than it is wide - generally it is BSkyB minidishes that are wider than they are tall.

 

[rolfw]

The Fracarro Penta 85 is nearly 90cm wide, so would be wider anyway than your limit, but it is one of the best dishes around for motorised systems due to its performance, weight and lower wind resistance. It is certainly my dish of choice for motorised systems and also large IRS installations where I need a good healthy signal to launch into a multiswitch. The Penta 68 is also a high performance dish

The TD78 is certainly taller than it is wide and although it is listed at being only 57cm wide, but as the TD 64 is wider than that, I'd be very surprised if it isn't nearly 70cm wide. It's not a bad dish though.

At 75cm wide, the Hirschmann FESAT 75cm would fit the bill, it's good for motorised systems, as it's Aluminium.

 

[ra36uk]

Thx. I'm finding it a bit hard to find actual dish dimensions out there. I want to receive 16e and 0.8w which I believe are weak satellites.
Would a dish this size cut it?

 

[rolfw]

For those two I'd use a Penta 85.

 

[ra36uk]

If the penta is 90 cm wide it'll not fit. Only reason I considered it is that I saw the dimensions listed as 78x78.
Guess that must be reflector size not actual dish size

 

[Topper]

If the penta is 90 cm wide it'll not fit. Only reason I considered it is that I saw the dimensions listed as 78x78.
Guess that must be reflector size not actual dish size

Perhaps that is indeed the case, my 1.2mtr dish is actually 1.5 mtrs diameter for that very reason, it certainly confused the planners when I obtained planning permission for it back in 93

 

[Fano]

I see the td 78 lists it's sizes as 57cm x78cm, is this true?

According to the Triax site its 70cm wide and 78cm high.Sounds right too,no way its 57cm wide.

 

[ra36uk]

I think the orbital 80 seems ok. I really can't see squeezing and 85, such as the gibertini or hirchmann making much difference.would 5 cm reflector surface have a big impact? Is it worth trying to squeeze an 85 in?Surely if you can get 16e on a zone 2 in cheshire i should have no problem with 16e, 0.8w, 5w and 24.5w in south east.

 

[Robbo]

It depends on which transponders you are after on those satellites, you wont get them all from 16E and 24.5W on a TD78 or an Orbital 80cm, both dishes are not true 80cm, more like 70cm ish.

The Hirschmann Fesat 85cm is about 80cm wide, don't remember the exact dimension though, but have had badr4 on that reasonably well, and better than both the Orbital or TD78 in general performance.

 

[ra36uk]

Intelsat 905 on 24.5w, telstar 11n on 37.5w, thor 5-6 on 0.8w, Eutelsat w1 on 10e, Eutelsat w3a on 7e, atlanticbird 1 on 12.5w and atlanticbird 2 on 8w.
I have just checked a record of the channels that have shown rugby in the past few weeks on a website and quoted them. Don't know how many of these are even ok to get in the u.k.

 

[Lazarus]

Well those Rugby broadcasts will mostly be feeds - and they are generally loosely protected by one or more of:

Low power

Encryption

4:2:2

Consequently you cannot rely upon the footprints that are published as they refer to true Channels intended for public consumption.