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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
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What is the best twin cable for a motorised dish?
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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1030079" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>[USER=411386]@Loquacious[/USER] & [USER=329484]@st1[/USER]</p><p></p><p><em><strong>TBH</strong></em>, I think the advice on choice of cables being given here is going a little OTT ("Over The Top") for the application that is envisaged as discussed in the<a href="https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/received-the-wrong-motor-from-amazon.172578/page-5#post-1030068" target="_blank"> original thread </a>- <em>especially in Post #88</em> - because it involves using a 75/80cm dish to get mainly 30W, 19E & 13E - all of which provide fairly strong signals in the Southern UK.</p><p></p><p>I'm also wondering if - given the proposed position of the dish fairly low on the wall of the house - whether the cable runs will actually be <em>anything</em> like 30m because I would have thought that 15-20m would be more than enough to run from the dish to the receiver, and signal degradation over that distance won't be excessive for those sats. Should the latter be the case, then a dual run of CT100/WF100 will be fine, and there's not much need to worry about UV damage because most of the cable will be inside the house. Also, compression connectors are a good, <em>but expensive</em>, idea, and normal F connectors should be fine if properly terminated and then wrapped tightly with self-amalgamating tape to keep the moisture out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1030079, member: 176704"] [USER=411386]@Loquacious[/USER] & [USER=329484]@st1[/USER] [I][B]TBH[/B][/I], I think the advice on choice of cables being given here is going a little OTT ("Over The Top") for the application that is envisaged as discussed in the[URL='https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/received-the-wrong-motor-from-amazon.172578/page-5#post-1030068'] original thread [/URL]- [I]especially in Post #88[/I] - because it involves using a 75/80cm dish to get mainly 30W, 19E & 13E - all of which provide fairly strong signals in the Southern UK. I'm also wondering if - given the proposed position of the dish fairly low on the wall of the house - whether the cable runs will actually be [I]anything[/I] like 30m because I would have thought that 15-20m would be more than enough to run from the dish to the receiver, and signal degradation over that distance won't be excessive for those sats. Should the latter be the case, then a dual run of CT100/WF100 will be fine, and there's not much need to worry about UV damage because most of the cable will be inside the house. Also, compression connectors are a good, [I]but expensive[/I], idea, and normal F connectors should be fine if properly terminated and then wrapped tightly with self-amalgamating tape to keep the moisture out. [/QUOTE]
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