Signal strength & quality difference

John T

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What is the difference between these two? With a Sky mini dish I have a lower strength but higher quality than with a 60cm dish I have installed. Can some kind person explain the difference please? I've tried Google but can't get an explanation.
 

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Strength refers to the amount of signal you are receiving, a bigger dish will normally give you a larger figure. Quality refers to the difference between the ambient noise level and the amount of signal, some quality readings refer to bit error rate though.

You can have lowish signal strength, but as long as you have good quality, you will still get a good picture, high strength and low quality may give you picture breakup.
 

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Why wouldn't you then expect to automaticaly get a high quality signal, when the signal strength is high?

:-gnome
 

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Because signal strength is an indication of how much signal you are receiving, which could be the wanted signal itself, LNB amplifier noise, interference from outside sources etc.

Put simply, signal quality is the digital information correctly decoded by your receiver.

Llew
 

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... a figure often poorly and sometimes hopelessly reported by some receivers in my experience.

BER may be something completely different, but at least its mathematically acurate (one would hope!) :)
 
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