Had a little play with a Zone 2 minidish

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Good job! I'm thinking about doing the same thing rather than adding extra dishes.
 

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My inverto effort!
 

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Getting good reults with those invertos then, i have 9 here ready for Spring when i start squeezing more lnbs on my dish!
 

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Piltdownpaul said:
Getting good reults with those invertos then, i have 9 here ready for Spring when i start squeezing more lnbs on my dish!

On strong birds your fine, other than that they can be funny buggers in rain with weaker transponders paul, they look cool though...........lol
 

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By the way Paul, big fan of your efforts/work so far, mind the pics on the new project, and whats 'spring'? Minus 6 in Paisley first thing this morning! :-0 lol
 

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Ghostleader said:
Minus 6 in Paisley first thing this morning! :-0 lol


Just chuck another Sassenach on the fire ......................
 

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Once it gets warm enuff to climb up the ladder the dish is going to be centred on 13E, or more likely 16E, and see what i can get squeezed in. I'm hoping to get a dedicated lnb for 21E and see what i can get past 5W. I have some stabilizer rods for the end of the lnb brackets to help support them. All will be documented on here with pics when the time comes. I had a day off today and wanted to play but we've had snow showers then sun every half hour so its been impossible.
 

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I did tests with the 5 invertos in store on my 60 cm on a satellite. I had one that was 5% down on the other with none of them attaining the signal i got on a twin icecrypt. Generally they were 5% down on the icecrypt. So i'm thinking i'll use them near the centre focus 13,9E,7E,4E and 19E,21E,23.5E.
 

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p said:
Have 42e 28e 19e 13e and 5e ( handfull of channels) on my zone 2, had to extend the main arm 50mm
Mind you 5E was a powerful satellite when i used to have it on my system last year., I bet you must have some serious rain fade on those outer lnbs,there are a few weaker transponders on 42E.
 

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rolfw said:
Adapted it using a cheap bracket for Astra 28.2 and 19.2e and two MK4 quad LNBs.
Did you smooth the wall off first?!!!
 

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Nope, knocked any stones off which were under the bolts, but those brackets are very soft and deform to the shape of the wall.
 

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I've ordered a cheap bracket and some cable to do this myself now. Hoping to get it sorted for 13°E and 19.2°E. I'll post pictures in due course :D
 
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