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I live near the beach, so rust is always a factor in everything (even stainless). Still, after 8 years, the antenna was not so bad. Mostly the bolts and nuts were to blame. Had to cut a couple of the as they were stuck. Some patches on the dish itself, not serious. A bit of scrapping and a coat...

Inverto BU in and installed. Quite nice actually. CH5 and ITV's improved a bit. C4 and BBC's are too borderline to watch at this time (maybe later??). I though I had a bad LNB, but it turns out 2 diseqc failed exactly the same at the same time :p But since I decided to do a bit of de-rusting I...

True. If I squeeze 5 quid, then why not an ever cheaper one and just get the cheapest around? I'll probably go for the inverto. Thanks guys

So, as a general rule of thumb, it could all end up being a lottery... you may get it or not. I must say I've had pretty decent results with my old LNB's so far. They best prices I get (with P&P) INVERTO BLACK ULTRA QUAD LNB IDLB-QUDL40-ULTRA-OPP 28,95 Pounds Opticum Premium Quad Lnb 0.1dB...

I'm probably buying them from ebay or amazon anyway, as it's cheaper than buying here. The opticum is about the same price as the Inverto for me (with postage included to Portugal). How about the opticum black? Looks great!

Hi, I live in Portugal (near Aveiro) and have a 1.25m dish (with 4LNB's). I could still get me some UK channels after the switcharoo to 2F (only with good weather), but now my 28.2 LNB seems to have given up (can only get horizonal channels). I'm still considering a bigger antenna, but since I...

Some decent weather yesterday. I get about 53/55 strength and 75 qual on my edision 2100. My edision 1600Ci gets a little better. No blackouts at all during dry weather. I'm just hanging in there. I've been tuning to the brit channels for 8 years now and it looks like I'll keep on doing it...

Hi, I'm just south of Porto in Portugal and I can still get reception with a 1.25 meter dish, but barely. But with all the rain falling, I get a lot of dead hours. I'm convinced I can fine tune my system (i'ts been hands free for about 6 or 7 years) to gain a little more signal but probably...

I have a 1.25m dish in Portugal, near Aveiro and 2F is still possible (at least for now). I have quad LNB's and four of them on the same dish (28.2 is the centre one). However, I need to further fine-tune my system as I'm getting signal losses in my bedroom (pretty much unwatch-able). Could just...

Just covering the bases

How old is your installation? Can you upload some pictures of the dish, LNB and other accessories there might be? Is the cable direct from the LNB to the receiver?

Maybe it's under "Eurobird1", but if it's sorted, don't mess with it :)

If you look at the footprint, portugal is also far out of there. I was just giving a bit of an example as to how it could work. I've seen footprint websites saying you need about 2,5 meters in portugal, and you can have it in the southern parts with just 1,2 meters. You can't look at the...

Hi, I live in Portugal and I get a load of uk channels. I'm not 100% sure if you refer to freesat as basically the FTA channels in Astra2 / Eurobird, but it's fairly easy to receive them. You can either buy equipment in the uk, or just buy an FTA receiver and a dish in your local area. you can...

looking for one myself.