Fracarro PENTA DIGIT 68cm

[TJExcalibur]

Decided to put in a separate dish for the Overseers Fransat on 5 West. An 80cm dish is recommend but as it can be seen from the street I thought a Penta Digit would look better and at £50 a good price. I get a very strong signal on the Fibo 90 so OK I hope.

 

[Lazarus]

5W is so strong it can be got on an old Zone 1 with completely wrong LNB skew!

 

[TJExcalibur]

5W is so strong it can be got on an old Zone 1 with completely wrong LNB skew!

Nice to know I will not have any problems, although I wonder whether to take you seriously because you are always laughing away in the screen margin.

 

[Lazarus]

Only 'cos I've been awarded a Medal. Another one.

It's a Dastardly plot!

 

[Channel Hopper]

Pentas are very good reflector surfaces, one of the best out there.

 

[RustySpoons]

Nice little dish the Digit.

 

[jeallen01]

5W is so strong it can be got on an old Zone 1 with completely wrong LNB skew!

@TJExcalibur
Might be an idea to consider actually using a Zone 1 or 2 dish as then nobody will take the slightest notice of it - there probably being lots of other Sky dishes on house walls around you - and it will probably be a lot cheaper (or even free if you want to come over here and take the surplus Zone 2 dish that is in my garage as I don't know what else to do with it!)

 

[TJExcalibur]

Thanks for the offer but a Sky dish looks like an old frying pan and I like to annoy my neighbour (the one that opposed my planing application for a big dish). A Penta Digit will make her think I have a link to the KGB.

 

[RustySpoons]

Thanks for the offer but a Sky dish looks like an old frying pan and I like to annoy my neighbour (the one that opposed my planing application for a big dish). A Penta Digit will make her think I have a link to the KGB.

I've got 3 dishes and a load of ham antennas, wonder what mine think!
Oh yeah a load of CCTV as well ha!

 

[jeallen01]

...I like to annoy my neighbour (the one that opposed my planing application for a big dish). A Penta Digit will make her think I have a link to the KGB.

"Peace in our time" - NOT!!!

 

[TJExcalibur]

Tell them they are ham antennas as you are looking for flying pigs.

 

[jeallen01]

I've got 3 dishes and a load of ham antennas, wonder what mine think!

If anyone asks, tell 'em that all that stuff is part of an early warning system in case of war, and that they will be first to know after you!

 

[Archive-8]

That’s what the adsb thread is all about

We also have cctv covered, including the new laws regarding the ico license

 

[RustySpoons]

That’s what the adsb thread is all about

We also have cctv covered, including the new laws regarding the ico license

New laws, eek this doesn't sound good!

 

[Archive-8]

New laws, eek this doesn't sound good!

It all depends on if a public road/place (not your garden) can be seen on the cctv.

If you also want it for evidence in court it needs to have date and time stamp, plus the ico licence will register your cctv system with your local police station, so if the police are investigating a major crime they may come and knock your door to view the cctv footage. I have a school opposite me and on of my cameras view the top of my drive/public road. So I didn’t take any chances, had my license for a few years. I have to adhere to the data protection act regarding the cctv footage especially if it has car reg plates or peoples faces.

I have used my cctv footage to help police prosecute a local low life.

The thing the police have recommended is to try and capture footage from more than one angle.

 

[Channel Hopper]

I have used my cctv footage to help police prosecute a local low life.

Giving dwarves a bad name, not good.

 

[RustySpoons]

It all depends on if a public road/place (not your garden) can be seen on the cctv.

If you also want it for evidence in court it needs to have date and time stamp, plus the ico licence will register your cctv system with your local police station, so if the police are investigating a major crime they may come and knock your door to view the cctv footage. I have a school opposite me and on of my cameras view the top of my drive/public road. So I didn’t take any chances, had my license for a few years. I have to adhere to the data protection act regarding the cctv footage especially if it has car reg plates or peoples faces.

I have used my cctv footage to help police prosecute a local low life.

The thing the police have recommended is to try and capture footage from more than one angle.

Yes my one camera covers the whole street, I have had people ask for footage when I bike got stolen and they thought it might have come past my property, I was more than happy to help.
Blown away with these cameras, I'm going to get a motorised zoom/focus camera soon for the front.
I use a dedicated PC as the NVR.

 

[Archive-8]

Yes my one camera covers the whole street, I have had people ask for footage when I bike got stolen and they thought it might have come past my property, I was more than happy to help.
Blown away with these cameras, I'm going to get a motorised zoom/focus camera soon for the front.
I use a dedicated PC as the NVR.


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Are all the cameras ip based ?

 

[RustySpoons]

Are all the cameras ip based ?

Yes they are, they are all Dahua cameras going through a Cisco PoE switch.