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<blockquote data-quote="Corrigapp" data-source="post: 20293" data-attributes="member: 390950"><p>Maxi 1</p><p></p><p>First off, you have a good receiver. Your dish, however, is distinctly on the small side. We're both more or less equidistant from the outer edge of the official footprint (measured from the outer contour which specifies a 120cm dish and which just skirts the west coast of Denmark). I moved up from an 80cm to a 98cm (Funke) but got absolutely nothing from 2d, about £100 down the drain. I had to move up to a 1.5m Gibertini before I got anything at all. Now I can receive the H transponders from 2d for most of the hours of the day. I normally lose 2d at around 20.30 CET, with the signal returning again at about 23.00 or thereabouts. So it's just during a part of primetime that I can't get 2d's H transponders. I have no reception *at all* from the V transponders.</p><p></p><p>My advice to you would be to wait and see what crystallizes out of the ongoing BBC/Sky conflict. If the BBC go ahead and go FTA on 2d and continue on the same transponders they're currently testing on, then a 1.8m dish might just do the trick for good reception 24/7. If, however, the BBC decided to use one or more V transponders, then a much larger dish will be required to guarantee reception at all times. Here I'm not sure about the size, but I've been looking at a couple of 2.4m dishes which will *probably* work ok. The V transponders are 3dB weaker than the H ones.</p><p></p><p>Please note that none of what I've written represents any kind of guarantee. People in our situation have do a lot of this by trial and error and sometimes (like in my case) money gets wasted.</p><p></p><p>My advice here is based on my own personal experience. So your first thought if you want to receive anything from 2d should be upgrading your dish. There is talk from time to time of people in Stockholm/Borlänge being able to get 2d on dishes between 85cm and 100cm and that there could be a sidelobe in that general region. Whether this applies to the Gbg area or not, I just don't know. It might be worth your while trying other LNBs before comitting to a new dish.</p><p></p><p>Corrigap</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Corrigapp, post: 20293, member: 390950"] Maxi 1 First off, you have a good receiver. Your dish, however, is distinctly on the small side. We're both more or less equidistant from the outer edge of the official footprint (measured from the outer contour which specifies a 120cm dish and which just skirts the west coast of Denmark). I moved up from an 80cm to a 98cm (Funke) but got absolutely nothing from 2d, about £100 down the drain. I had to move up to a 1.5m Gibertini before I got anything at all. Now I can receive the H transponders from 2d for most of the hours of the day. I normally lose 2d at around 20.30 CET, with the signal returning again at about 23.00 or thereabouts. So it's just during a part of primetime that I can't get 2d's H transponders. I have no reception *at all* from the V transponders. My advice to you would be to wait and see what crystallizes out of the ongoing BBC/Sky conflict. If the BBC go ahead and go FTA on 2d and continue on the same transponders they're currently testing on, then a 1.8m dish might just do the trick for good reception 24/7. If, however, the BBC decided to use one or more V transponders, then a much larger dish will be required to guarantee reception at all times. Here I'm not sure about the size, but I've been looking at a couple of 2.4m dishes which will *probably* work ok. The V transponders are 3dB weaker than the H ones. Please note that none of what I've written represents any kind of guarantee. People in our situation have do a lot of this by trial and error and sometimes (like in my case) money gets wasted. My advice here is based on my own personal experience. So your first thought if you want to receive anything from 2d should be upgrading your dish. There is talk from time to time of people in Stockholm/Borlänge being able to get 2d on dishes between 85cm and 100cm and that there could be a sidelobe in that general region. Whether this applies to the Gbg area or not, I just don't know. It might be worth your while trying other LNBs before comitting to a new dish. Corrigap [/QUOTE]
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