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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
Equipment for reception of UK (FTA, Sky etc) in SW France (67)
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<blockquote data-quote="PaulR" data-source="post: 833906" data-attributes="member: 176256"><p>Reading and re-reading the first post, the French supplier ISN'T proposing a prime focus dish, what he's saying is that with the Gib multi-LNB holder you can't put an LNB at the prime focus position. Prime is an unfortunate word in this context, a better word is is main, as Rolf used.</p><p></p><p>If you already have a 1.25m dish then I would say use it as it gives a reasonably good margin for a lower signal strength if the forthcoming 2E satellite gives an even lower signal strength than 2F does at your location. Current reports indicate that 1M is just good enough in the SW of France so it depends on whether you could take the financial hit of effectively scrapping (or selling on) the 1.25m dish if worst comes to worst. It may be that 1m will be good enough for 2E, we just don't know. There's only a certain amount of future-proofing that you can build in.</p><p></p><p>WF125 is probably overkill as you say. Personally I would use WF100 as it's considerably cheaper and easier to obtain (although in France you'll probably end up with some RG6 equivalent). WF100 has a copper core, coper braid and copper sheath. The better RG6s have an aluminium sheath, which really doen't like water at all as it reacts electrolitically with copper. Even worse RG6s have an aluminium braid and/or a copper coated steel core. I don't think you can buy an RG6 in France with an all copper spec.</p><p></p><p>I would also use a Quad LNb (four outputs). The Invacom Black Ultra has the best price/performance balance available at the moment. But be careful as Inverto also produce lnbs such as the Black Pro and in different "colours" which are not the same. This also gives you flexibility to put a box in the house called a multiswitch which will take those four outputs and multiply them up to 8, 12, 24, etc if your satellite requirements increase. I went the multiswitch route in France from word go as there's a secondary advantage that you can mix in FM and TV signals and run them down a single cable. I have two feeds into the living room (should have made it three!) and one into each of the three bedrooms and kitchen. If you are really thinking about only doing it once this has got to be worth a thought.</p><p></p><p><em>Afterthought</em></p><p></p><p>I've also, much as you have proposed, put a multi-LNB holder on my satellite dish so that I can run cables into the living room only for 19E and 13E. The 28E position wasn't at the main focus point but I suspect that's something that I will have to change when I go down next week. In fact I think I shall probably have go up a size or two on satellite dish to maintain my rain margin.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PaulR, post: 833906, member: 176256"] Reading and re-reading the first post, the French supplier ISN'T proposing a prime focus dish, what he's saying is that with the Gib multi-LNB holder you can't put an LNB at the prime focus position. Prime is an unfortunate word in this context, a better word is is main, as Rolf used. If you already have a 1.25m dish then I would say use it as it gives a reasonably good margin for a lower signal strength if the forthcoming 2E satellite gives an even lower signal strength than 2F does at your location. Current reports indicate that 1M is just good enough in the SW of France so it depends on whether you could take the financial hit of effectively scrapping (or selling on) the 1.25m dish if worst comes to worst. It may be that 1m will be good enough for 2E, we just don't know. There's only a certain amount of future-proofing that you can build in. WF125 is probably overkill as you say. Personally I would use WF100 as it's considerably cheaper and easier to obtain (although in France you'll probably end up with some RG6 equivalent). WF100 has a copper core, coper braid and copper sheath. The better RG6s have an aluminium sheath, which really doen't like water at all as it reacts electrolitically with copper. Even worse RG6s have an aluminium braid and/or a copper coated steel core. I don't think you can buy an RG6 in France with an all copper spec. I would also use a Quad LNb (four outputs). The Invacom Black Ultra has the best price/performance balance available at the moment. But be careful as Inverto also produce lnbs such as the Black Pro and in different "colours" which are not the same. This also gives you flexibility to put a box in the house called a multiswitch which will take those four outputs and multiply them up to 8, 12, 24, etc if your satellite requirements increase. I went the multiswitch route in France from word go as there's a secondary advantage that you can mix in FM and TV signals and run them down a single cable. I have two feeds into the living room (should have made it three!) and one into each of the three bedrooms and kitchen. If you are really thinking about only doing it once this has got to be worth a thought. [I]Afterthought[/I] I've also, much as you have proposed, put a multi-LNB holder on my satellite dish so that I can run cables into the living room only for 19E and 13E. The 28E position wasn't at the main focus point but I suspect that's something that I will have to change when I go down next week. In fact I think I shall probably have go up a size or two on satellite dish to maintain my rain margin. [/QUOTE]
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