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<blockquote data-quote="hairybadger" data-source="post: 905178" data-attributes="member: 389459"><p>I got into it by accident about two years ago. I was talking to another Brit who lives locally, and she was saying that it was possible to receive UK TV with a suitably-sized dish. We'd had some work done on the house and the Canalsat dish needed resiting anyway. I did some research and found that I could cover both 28.2E and 19.2E with the same dish, and so stumbled upon the T90. I ordered a Freesat receiver from Amazon UK (Dixons or whatever in Didcot would not sell one to me, presumably because I was trying to use a French bank card to purchase TV equipment) and didn't have too much trouble wiring it all up. The problem with the T90 is that has too much potential, so over the following months I added more and more LNBs to it. The *God awful* Canalsat receiver doesn't do Diseqc, and the Foxsat I had only does Diseqc 1.0 so I swapped in an Openbox S10 and set up cascading Diseqc with a few 1.0 boxes and a 1.1 (10-way, although I could only get the cascading to work on the front 8). Before I knew it I had the T-90 maxed-out, even with an extension bar hanging off the end so I could get 5W. Next I started playing with the old 60cm dish and a motor, quickly replacing it with an 80cm sourced from the neighbour, and this in turn was replaced on the sly with an identically-painted 1m Gibi <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>Anyone still awake?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hairybadger, post: 905178, member: 389459"] I got into it by accident about two years ago. I was talking to another Brit who lives locally, and she was saying that it was possible to receive UK TV with a suitably-sized dish. We'd had some work done on the house and the Canalsat dish needed resiting anyway. I did some research and found that I could cover both 28.2E and 19.2E with the same dish, and so stumbled upon the T90. I ordered a Freesat receiver from Amazon UK (Dixons or whatever in Didcot would not sell one to me, presumably because I was trying to use a French bank card to purchase TV equipment) and didn't have too much trouble wiring it all up. The problem with the T90 is that has too much potential, so over the following months I added more and more LNBs to it. The *God awful* Canalsat receiver doesn't do Diseqc, and the Foxsat I had only does Diseqc 1.0 so I swapped in an Openbox S10 and set up cascading Diseqc with a few 1.0 boxes and a 1.1 (10-way, although I could only get the cascading to work on the front 8). Before I knew it I had the T-90 maxed-out, even with an extension bar hanging off the end so I could get 5W. Next I started playing with the old 60cm dish and a motor, quickly replacing it with an 80cm sourced from the neighbour, and this in turn was replaced on the sly with an identically-painted 1m Gibi :) Anyone still awake? [/QUOTE]
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