42e + 28e on a Zone 2 dish?

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It has been a long time since I posted last (guilty of being a forum lurker:oops:)

I currently have a zone 2 dish up with 3 LNBS for 13e, 19e and 28e with 19e being the focal point.

I am wanting to swtich this for use with just 42e and 28e.
The plan is to center the dish on 42e and hang 28e off the side.
From memory I think 15 degrees was the max spacing on a 60cm dish so in theory it should work.

Has anybody done this before, or would know if in theory it will work?

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It should work but there might not be much margin for rain fade on 28.2e. As you can see on your own setup, the nine degree gap between 19e & 28.2e isn't huge on a zone 2, 14 degrees is only half as far again. Getting the 28.2e LNB secure in the optimum position could be an issue.
 
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Yeah the rain fade is 'okay' at the minute.
I should hopefully get some time at the weekend to try the setup out.
 
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One of my Zone 2 dishes (I have 3 - one for 28E for the house Skybox, & 2 others pointed at various other sats) has the centre line LNB aimed at 39E and an off-set one for 28E for the dish farm system, and that seems to work quite well - so, as some of the main transponders on 42E are very strong in London (and stronger than those on 39E), I think that a similar dual feed system on a Zone 2 dish for 42E and 28E should work.
 
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jeallen01 said:
One of my Zone 2 dishes (I have 3 - one for 28E for the house Skybox, & 2 others pointed at various other sats) has the centre line LNB aimed at 39E and an off-set one for 28E for the dish farm system, and that seems to work quite well - so, as some of the main transponders on 42E are very strong in London (and stronger than those on 39E), I think that a similar dual feed system on a Zone 2 dish for 42E and 28E should work.
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Thinking about the above, you could probably also add a 3rd LNB, off-set on the opposite side to the one for 28E, for 52E where there's often a lot of FTA sport, and so on, on very strong transponders - and thus should be receivable with that configuration :D.
 
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