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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
Floor mount
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<blockquote data-quote="chavo" data-source="post: 915801" data-attributes="member: 266961"><p><img src="http://www.imagebam.com/image/164cbd390308138" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Hello, I am back.</p><p></p><p>Ok. I started with a floor mounted 1m dish about 8 years ago. It was great as I could mess till my heart was content. No wind, only issue was everything west of 1w was a no go due to the fence. I had a kid and decided to get the decking built, and a bit of landscaping done so moved the motor to the wall. First winter in I the dish got blown that hard it shears the metal gears in the motor. Bye bye motorised system.</p><p></p><p>I bought the wave frontier t90, 105cm of delight! Popped it up on top of the decking as per the photo and it was great, at first. The decking is a wooden structure so in the winter the wind would make the entire frame move (the dish acts like a kite). I also found that because of where I am geographically I got a great signal on 19, 16 and 13 ( although getting the lnbs close was a problem, needed to sand the mounts down to get them 3 degrees apart and use a differ erect lnb, see pic), 28 sat right up at the right hand endge of the scale and 1w was right. Up on the left meaning that they where both fringe reception, the military chan used to get 20% <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/sad.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Sad :(" data-shortname=":(" /> when it got a bit windy 1w and 28 went off.</p><p></p><p>So here I am with a 4 switch, 2 zone 2 and a zone 1. Dishes a small, tight up to the house. Very secure. Not ideal LNBs are all crap. But I dont know which lnb will work well on a zone 2 dish.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chavo, post: 915801, member: 266961"] [IMG]http://www.imagebam.com/image/164cbd390308138[/IMG] Hello, I am back. Ok. I started with a floor mounted 1m dish about 8 years ago. It was great as I could mess till my heart was content. No wind, only issue was everything west of 1w was a no go due to the fence. I had a kid and decided to get the decking built, and a bit of landscaping done so moved the motor to the wall. First winter in I the dish got blown that hard it shears the metal gears in the motor. Bye bye motorised system. I bought the wave frontier t90, 105cm of delight! Popped it up on top of the decking as per the photo and it was great, at first. The decking is a wooden structure so in the winter the wind would make the entire frame move (the dish acts like a kite). I also found that because of where I am geographically I got a great signal on 19, 16 and 13 ( although getting the lnbs close was a problem, needed to sand the mounts down to get them 3 degrees apart and use a differ erect lnb, see pic), 28 sat right up at the right hand endge of the scale and 1w was right. Up on the left meaning that they where both fringe reception, the military chan used to get 20% :( when it got a bit windy 1w and 28 went off. So here I am with a 4 switch, 2 zone 2 and a zone 1. Dishes a small, tight up to the house. Very secure. Not ideal LNBs are all crap. But I dont know which lnb will work well on a zone 2 dish. [/QUOTE]
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