Need new dish for Hotbird which one ?

[roost]

Hi . I live in Dublin.I have a silvercrest sl65 reciever that I bought in lidl. Its great. I use it for all the italian channels. The problem I have is the dish it came with is not the best. It keep moving of late. The bracket is not the best any more (never was anyway ) and the Dish is starting to rust.
Which dish and lmb should I go for ? Will a sky dish do.?
The tube bolted to the side of the house is fine. Just need new dish to go on .

Any help or advice please ?

rgds
The Roost

 

[Analoguesat]

Almost any dish will do for Hotbird - even a zone 1 (43cm) Sky dish.

For better rain fade protection a 60cm or 80cm dish would be preferable though. I use a scruffy old second hand 80cm dish as it was available and its a rare day I lose reception due to bad weather.

 

[Lazarus]

Another vote for a Sky Zone 2 for Dublin.

Cheap but effective and you might just about get the LNB skew correct within the range allowed by Sky LNBs.

 

[satelliteman]

Zone2 would be ideal for Hotbird given location.

 

[Ghostleader]

Another vote for a Sky Zone 2 for Dublin.

Cheap but effective and you might just about get the LNB skew correct within the range allowed by Sky LNBs.

Yeah I used a Zone 2 dish here just outside of Glasgow for Hotbird for long enough, the regional setting on the $ky LNB is "3" for here for Astra 28e but I found that setting it to "1" was needed to get the weaker transponders that were more skew specific when using such a "Small" dish (GEM TV & I think NSK channel are very weak on a $ky dish). I ended up taking down the supplied Thomson single LNB & subing it out with a £3 0.3dB Lidl LNB & adaptor clip, with this I could adjust the skew better & gained 7 to 8% more signal quality on the weaker transponders etc, this was more to do with the Lidl LNB being a better quality LNB than the Thomson rather than just the fact the skew was more adjustable.

 

[Huevos]

you might just about get the LNB skew correct within the range allowed by Sky LNBs.

I don't know what the skew range for those minidishes is but... for Dublin skew for 28ºE (skew -15º) and 13ºE (skew -14º) is almost the same when you take the 7.5º antiskew of Astra satellites into account.