briangw
Regular Member
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2008
- Messages
- 122
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- Age
- 73
- Location
- Los Lobos, Almeria
- My Satellite Setup
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Humax HDR1000
Samsung 40" TV
FS Passion+160Gb
Samsung 22" TV
Humax Foxsat
Hannspree 22" HDMI
1.8m Prodelin offset
Triax Cascade System
with 19 Apartments
- My Location
- Los Lobos, SE Spain (Lat: 37.3087° Long: -1.7647°)
I have been tasked with installing a multi-switch system into our 32 apartment complex (Los Lobos, Spain). Locally I have seen 1.8m dishes working quite well, although strangely, a local 2.4m dish is struggling but cant get my hands on that to see for myself. When I say the 1.8s are working quite well, in my estimation it is about halfway between 2D and 1N levels on our old 1.25s - acceptable to me as it doesnt rain much here anyway.
All the dishes I have looked at so far have been 1.8m PF Famavals, and although I have got nothing against them other than their larger footprint being PFs (it is going on to someones roof), I have an inkling that an Offset may just be better. Does anyone have any direct comparison experience of 1.8 PF against Offset, and also whether a Metal or Fibre (Raven/ChannelMaster or Tecatel) would be preferred. Cost is a consideration, but not critical. I have trawled through other posts, but cant see an answer to my specific question, and dont want my query to be caught up amongst the myriad of conversations going on in the Iberian thread.
The second question after that , of course, is which LNB +/or feedhorn would be best for the appropriate preferred dish. The third/fourth/fifth questions would be cabling, quatro splitters, multi-switches but lets just take 1 step at a time. If the 1.8m dont work, the whole project will get dumped coz were not having a 2.4m on anyones roof.
Any help would be much appreciated, I have 32 people here chomping at the bit for Corrie and Eastenders, and me worrying about the World Cup in June.
PS I am not a pro sat installer, but an IT guy who does a bit of sat stuff on the side, but with a professional attitude. I have probably installed a dozen 1.25m dishes over the last 4 years (not much in the last 2 obviously), and re-tuned/upgraded LNBs on dozens more - so I have some experience but only on the smaller dishes. Its all done by word of mouth, so I cant be doing too bad a job.
All the dishes I have looked at so far have been 1.8m PF Famavals, and although I have got nothing against them other than their larger footprint being PFs (it is going on to someones roof), I have an inkling that an Offset may just be better. Does anyone have any direct comparison experience of 1.8 PF against Offset, and also whether a Metal or Fibre (Raven/ChannelMaster or Tecatel) would be preferred. Cost is a consideration, but not critical. I have trawled through other posts, but cant see an answer to my specific question, and dont want my query to be caught up amongst the myriad of conversations going on in the Iberian thread.
The second question after that , of course, is which LNB +/or feedhorn would be best for the appropriate preferred dish. The third/fourth/fifth questions would be cabling, quatro splitters, multi-switches but lets just take 1 step at a time. If the 1.8m dont work, the whole project will get dumped coz were not having a 2.4m on anyones roof.
Any help would be much appreciated, I have 32 people here chomping at the bit for Corrie and Eastenders, and me worrying about the World Cup in June.
PS I am not a pro sat installer, but an IT guy who does a bit of sat stuff on the side, but with a professional attitude. I have probably installed a dozen 1.25m dishes over the last 4 years (not much in the last 2 obviously), and re-tuned/upgraded LNBs on dozens more - so I have some experience but only on the smaller dishes. Its all done by word of mouth, so I cant be doing too bad a job.
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