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Satellite Systems - What to Buy - What to install
Sirius and Thor in the Southeast
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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 42470" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>Located in W.London.</p><p></p><p>Am using a pretty good 85cm dish & LNB setup and can only get S2/S3 during the day with my Echostar 3000Ip, non-Via, - from around 7pm the signal drops off noticeably and channel lock is gnerally lost. Everyone confirms that!</p><p></p><p>A 90cm dish would make a VERY slight improvement, but everyone with a 1.2m dish seems to have no problems much at all. </p><p></p><p>Got to be the "big" one I am afraid unless you have </p><p>- a extremely good dish (the one you mentioned is "nothing special", I am afraid) - the best ChannelMasters are supposed to punch above their weight but are difficult to get hold of (and not cheap); The "Gregorian" dishes (with the secondary reflector where the LNB normally fits are also supposed to be better than normal dishes.</p><p></p><p>AND/OR</p><p>- a receiver with a very low threshold tuner - the Xtreme Hornet tuner got a good write up in TeleSatellite International; the @sat9500 tuner is supposed to be good (Wot Sat); the Technomate 5500 tuner is supposed to be good according to Wot Sat, but these receivers have other problems (see the Den & Satdudez)</p><p></p><p>John A</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 42470, member: 176704"] Located in W.London. Am using a pretty good 85cm dish & LNB setup and can only get S2/S3 during the day with my Echostar 3000Ip, non-Via, - from around 7pm the signal drops off noticeably and channel lock is gnerally lost. Everyone confirms that! A 90cm dish would make a VERY slight improvement, but everyone with a 1.2m dish seems to have no problems much at all. Got to be the "big" one I am afraid unless you have - a extremely good dish (the one you mentioned is "nothing special", I am afraid) - the best ChannelMasters are supposed to punch above their weight but are difficult to get hold of (and not cheap); The "Gregorian" dishes (with the secondary reflector where the LNB normally fits are also supposed to be better than normal dishes. AND/OR - a receiver with a very low threshold tuner - the Xtreme Hornet tuner got a good write up in TeleSatellite International; the @sat9500 tuner is supposed to be good (Wot Sat); the Technomate 5500 tuner is supposed to be good according to Wot Sat, but these receivers have other problems (see the Den & Satdudez) John A [/QUOTE]
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