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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
C-Band Reception, UK and Europe
Primestar Elliptical Scalar Ring C Band
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<blockquote data-quote="searay" data-source="post: 669166" data-attributes="member: 341333"><p>Satcom1,</p><p>I hate to bother you again, but I have not found the information I need in spite of many days of searching and reading. In addition to my Primestar dish, I want to add another (surprise!!) larger dish. Hopefully something large enough to allow me to subscribe to a few channels like SyFy and the Military Channel. I would like to keep the dish size to a minimum. I think I have gotten enough info to determine that an 8.5' dish is necessary to scan the C band satellites. BUT ... is this a mesh dish needed to get 99% of the available programming or would a 6' solid dish do as well? I'm completely confused by the different terminologies used to describe the "sensitivity" of the dishes and LNB's. It's like going to a supermarket and trying to get the best "bang for your buck" when the labels refer to different serving sizes, serving units, metric, english, etc. I have tried to find websites that show maps of the USA showing the minimum dish size required to reliably receive the signal of each satellite. I can't seem to find anything newer than a year or two old which is not very useful given the constant state of flux the satellites and programming is in. I'm not asking you to give me all the answers, but maybe an idea of where to look to get the "real skinny". I apologize again. If there is a forum that is current and has people like myself who can't afford to subscribe to DTV or DN and really don't need or want all the channels in the expensive packages, please steer me to that site, I'll be happy to get involved.</p><p>searay</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="searay, post: 669166, member: 341333"] Satcom1, I hate to bother you again, but I have not found the information I need in spite of many days of searching and reading. In addition to my Primestar dish, I want to add another (surprise!!) larger dish. Hopefully something large enough to allow me to subscribe to a few channels like SyFy and the Military Channel. I would like to keep the dish size to a minimum. I think I have gotten enough info to determine that an 8.5' dish is necessary to scan the C band satellites. BUT ... is this a mesh dish needed to get 99% of the available programming or would a 6' solid dish do as well? I'm completely confused by the different terminologies used to describe the "sensitivity" of the dishes and LNB's. It's like going to a supermarket and trying to get the best "bang for your buck" when the labels refer to different serving sizes, serving units, metric, english, etc. I have tried to find websites that show maps of the USA showing the minimum dish size required to reliably receive the signal of each satellite. I can't seem to find anything newer than a year or two old which is not very useful given the constant state of flux the satellites and programming is in. I'm not asking you to give me all the answers, but maybe an idea of where to look to get the "real skinny". I apologize again. If there is a forum that is current and has people like myself who can't afford to subscribe to DTV or DN and really don't need or want all the channels in the expensive packages, please steer me to that site, I'll be happy to get involved. searay [/QUOTE]
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