Fisty's autumn & winter 2020/21 bodge up

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Still things to get properly sorted in Fisty's back garden with reduced space for satellite dishes, but in the meantime this following should do for the winter. Two grey dishes, one 45cm and the other 80cm, picking up 28E (45cm) and 19E, 13E and Ka-Sat on 9E. Red dish is set up as a "proof of concept" aimed roughly towards 22W for a more permanent set up planned for next year and is presently missing its main arm which is in safe storage. This position in the garden isn't ideal, but it has very, very little foot traffic (just me an a neighbour) and a more grand set up is planned which will bring the dishes back further from the fence. All fed into a Technomate Diseqc 1.0 switch - I tested an old 1.1 ten-way switch but it is now broke and I don't fancy getting the big Centuari 16-1 switch out for maybe two more sats at most so I'll likely stick with this as a temporary set up from now until spring next year.
 

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Fisty McB

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Some small changes to the winter bodge up - the KaSat LNB has been taken down (I have Saorview at home, so I'm missing nothing) and in its place on the 80cm dish the LNBs have been shuffled around - the 13E LNB is now an Alps single output while 23.5E and 9E KuBand have been added, now being fed into an EMP-Centuari 16/1 Diseqc 1.1 switch alongside the 28.2E output on the 45cm dish.

I did try to see if I could pick up 1.9E offset next to the 9E LNB as the footprint data looked favourable, but sadly no luck here, and 4.8E is too close to the 9E LNB with an 80cm dish - so I think that's as much as I'm going to be able to squeeze out off this dish without performing some sort of mechanical bodge, which I am not going to do for a temporary setup.

Thanks to y'all!
Fisty
 

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