What dish is this?

[Captain Jack]

On my recent travels to Oxfordshire, I came upon an estate (a posh one) which had a number of these dishes erected. Looks like Visiosat dishes - just quite like these as they look quirky!

 

[satelliteman]

Visiosat Bisat.
Actually, that's feeding an IRS ;)

 

[hairybadger]

They're not uncommon in this neck of the woods

 

[Captain Jack]

Visiosat Bisat.
Actually, that's feeding an IRS ;)

Internal Revenue Service?

 

[PaulR]

At a guess Integrated Reception System.

The photo does start me off on one of my hobby horses (q.f. Penta dishes). I don't suppose that there is a special LNBF to go with the shape of the dish, is there? In which case it's either underperforming or wasting metal in the dish.

 

[sonnetpete]

The photo does start me off on one of my hobby horses (q.f. Penta dishes).

........Though I've seen quite a few of those Visiosat dishes over here set up for 19E and 13E....tad pricey if they are the fibre ones....

 

[Captain Jack]

Pricey indeed! But a good candidate for multi satellite reception - for some reason, I really don't like the look of Wave Frontier dishes. What's the range on these?

 

[sonnetpete]

There's this one :

http://www.hm-sat-shop.de/en/antennen-visiosat/visiosat-big-bisatmulti-lnb-antenne.html

which handles 8 lnb's and is 91cm x 70cm...however, it's a different design to those in your photo's... or this one (74cm x 64cm) which is closer to the photo's...

http://www.2galli.fr/boutique/fiche_produit.cfm?ref=BISATG1&type=28&code_lg=lg_fr&num=21

which can be adapted to take this multisat support....

http://www.2galli.fr/boutique/fiche_produit.cfm?ref=supportUK_&type=70&code_lg=lg_fr&num=51

 

[satelliteman]

Yes, an ideal dish for multisat setup.

 

[Huevos]

I really don't like the look of Wave Frontier dishes.

Torroidal 90 has quit a bit more gain than these.

 

[Captain Jack]

Not surprising as it's a larger dish...

 

[archive10]

At a guess Integrated Reception System.

The photo does start me off on one of my hobby horses (q.f. Penta dishes). I don't suppose that there is a special LNBF to go with the shape of the dish, is there? In which case it's either underperforming or wasting metal in the dish.

No special LNBs, you are seeing waste of fibre-glass (mostly).
As the wavefrontiers, they have a (horinzontal) focal line rather than a focal point, and designed for multi-lnb set-up.
From the pics it looks like they could have been done using somewhat smaller normal round dishes, as there is only one LNB smack centre.
But, admittedly they look more spacey, so you may be waatching them employed as "designer-dishes".

 

[Channel Hopper]

On my recent travels to Oxfordshire, I came upon an estate (a posh one) which had a number of these dishes erected. Looks like Visiosat dishes - just quite like these as they look quirky!

Number one and three won't stay up long with the T/K's so close together

 

[hexah]

Don't forget the Maximum E85, cheaper and effective.

 

[archive10]

Don't forget the Maximum E85, cheaper and effective.

But in as single LNB configuration, what about a Triax or Gibertini? Or even a bog standard Sky dish?

 

[hexah]

Yes, they may as well have used Triax or Gibertini as I suspect they wanted to get away from the boggo $ly dish!

 

[Ghostleader]

Seen a good few of them up here being used for the same purpose as well. A bit OTT for a communal install, what's up with a Triax dish these days?