Now that what I call a big dish!

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Its been mentioned before, but its worth mentioning again.

This is Klaus Schumacher's 8m dish. He lives in Brazil and can get analogue channels off 19E. Amazingly he can also get some digital stuff as well.

The dish is driven by an old Echostar.

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Nice, just goes to show what people will do for TV!!! :D
 

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Fair play to the guy!:-worship Thats some dish, and to think home made!:cool:
 

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It would have been easier to move to Europe:D

Seriously, thats some achievement, He's even picking up digital from 26E, I hope someone can help him get digital from 19.2 east before they analogue goes off for good.:-worship
 

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Takes a good positioner to move that beast. I used the Echostar 8700 for many years, it used to auto peak on a satellite. Probably comes in handy on that one too, although there must be plenty of overrun with that dish using that facility :-rofl2

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I think everyone will agree that if he ever joined up here, he would be made an honorary member at once!
 

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Salty25 said:
I think everyone will agree that if he ever joined up here, he would be made an honorary member at once!

I'll second that, well, speaking as a regular member... :D
 

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It certainly is quite remarkable and I suppose the sense of achievement must be great especially with him achieving all this with a home made dish. It is a shame that the digital signals are proving a problem for him.
 

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I love the fact that he used the mold afterward as a swimming pool:-rofl2
 

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trigger said:
I love the fact that he used the mold afterward as a swimming pool:-rofl2

Well I think that solution is indicative of the type of person he is :)
 

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what i wonder is how he decided it would be a 8metre dish he would need to receive the channels in brazil, why not 9 or 10 metre ?

i wonder if he gets any of the other satellites over europe
 

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From what I understood he gets some of the Hotbird stuff.
 

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wod said:
i wonder if he gets any of the other satellites over europe

Yes, in the clip he says he watches HD on 26East
 

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Wonder if he gets Astra 2D? On his not so mini dish:-rofl2
 

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wod said:
what i wonder is how he decided it would be a 8metre dish he would need to receive the channels in brazil, why not 9 or 10 metre ?

i wonder if he gets any of the other satellites over europe

You do have to wonder why, if he could build an 8 metre dish, why he didn't just push the boat out and go for a dish as big as possible.

I love the fact he has a team of people all working on it just so he can watch a bit of telly :-rofl2

I should imagine that he might be rather lucrative as an endorsement of equipment - "Test by Klaus - Brazil to Europe, no worries :-thumb1!"
 

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You do have to wonder why, if he could build an 8 metre dish, why he didn't just push the boat out and go for a dish as big as possible.

Probably take too long to fill the pool!:)
 

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also it was the size of the polar mount that amazed me and the tower. think he said the dish was 800metre above sea level too which will help with the signal

wonder if he gets mbc on 26east as we all know the footprint map is made up
 
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