Toroidal dish receiving 8 satellites

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monsieurm

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My Satellite Setup
Toroidal Dish: 0.8°W, 4.8°E, 9.0/10.0°E, 13.0°E, 16.0°E, 19.2°E, 23.5°E, 28.2/28.5°E
My Location
Germany
Hey guys,
I have been reading in this forum for quite some time and decided it would be nice to post some pictures of my satellite dish. It has been on the roof of my garage since 2008.

In the first photo I attached you can find all the satellites I currently receive indicated. :)
 

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Very nice! What's your longitude?
 
Impressive.

I hope you bought Shares in the Cable Manufacturer!
 
Nice job and a good range of satellites :)
 
Nice install - Ive always fancied one of those big toroidal dishes :)
 
That's a really pretty setup. It's not often you can say that - and I include my own lash-ups there!
 
Yes, excellent setup you have there monsieurm :)
 
very nice setup :)
 
Nice job, both thumbs up.
 
Thank you all for your compliments! :D
I'm actually taking an additional motorised dish into consideration to receive the satellites I'm still missing.
But this might not be feasible because of my neigbour's roof top.


Huevos said:
Very nice! What's your longitude?
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If I'm not mistaken and make sense out of the data on Google Earth my longitude should be 7° 27' East . I'm located in the West of Germany. This is why I can receive all channels from Astra 2D without any problems. :)
 
monsieurm said:
my longitude should be 7° 27' East
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I'm curious about how you set this up. Why haven't you distributed the LNBs evenly along the bar? Were you going to add some more to the west end? Which LNB is closest to zero on the bar? I'm guessing 10ºE by the look of it. Also the photos make it seem like the dish is not skewed. Is that right?
 
Very nice setup --- as everyone else has noted!

How do you combine the two 4x1 Diseqc Switches or is there a third switch?
 
I am on my way to re-install my toroid after a roof work. It will also have 8 l´nb´s and 2 of them will be quattro
My friend Goran has an ever nicer dish - he has 18 lnb´s most of them are quattro. Looks very impressive I must say.
 
Huevos said:
Why haven't you distributed the LNBs evenly along the bar? Were you going to add some more to the west end?
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Yes, that's right. At the very beginning I wanted to add Amos on 4°W and perhaps Nilesat on 7°W. But so far I have been pretty content with what I'm receiving. So I'll wait for the motorised dish. Especially because signals from Nilesat are very weak at my location.

And it's also correct that the dish isn't skewed. :)
 
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