Astra 1, 2 and Hotbird on a zone 2 mini dish?

[Mickha]

12034v for the football which is on william-1's strongest transponder list. Other transponders will be a bonus.

Which football games are you interested in?

 

[statalite]

Which football games are you interested in?

Nation's League.

 

[Mickha]

Personally I tend to watch the EPL games, and some International qualifiers, but I tend to ignore the Nations League, except for the finals.

 

[statalite]

Personally I tend to watch the EPL games, and some International qualifiers, but I tend to ignore the Nations League, except for the finals.

I'm interested in all, with the setup I have at the moment 9e seems possible? I'm not sure until I try.

 

[Mickha]

With slim, bullet, LNB's you might get 23.5E, or even a 4 degree monobloc, which should get 19.2E and 23.5E

 

[statalite]

Well after much fettling and tinkering in restricted circumstances (mainly cat dropping) I have centred the zone 2 on 19.2e have 28.2 on the left as you look at the dish and 10e and or 9e to the right, I have the transponder I need for tonight but just doing a blind scan has shown 664 TV and 216 radio on 10e/9e, I'm guessing not all of these will lock properly but, more by luck than judgement I have appear to have done it! Now time for a lie down because I'm knackered.

 

[statalite]

Hi guys after this outing I have moved the 9e Inverto Eco LNB to 13e.
I seem to get most transponders (80%?) on 13e around 7-10db, is this expected results considering the LNB isn't the centred one and is on a zone 2 dish?

 

[Channel Hopper]

Being elliptical design (I assume it is a Raven Zone 2), the reflector will have a pronounced drop off in gain the further away from the centre focus, compared to a zone 1.

These dishes were never designed to work off beam, so to get a respectable signal at all with the post vertical (meaning you are 2 dimensions off the arc) is a good result.

 

[daro2096]

Yes, if you are trying to get 28, 19 and 13 the centre LNB needs to be facing 19.

 

[daro2096]

I don't think the Sky minidishes are the most suitable for multi LNB viewing. You are probably better off using a round non minidish satellite dish. Depending on where you live a Wavefrontier T55 dish is good enough for 28e to 1w with the odd exception. The only problem with this dish is the support arms don't leave a lot of room for some LNBs. The Inverto Multi Connect LNBs don't fit. Or another satellite dish but more expensive is something like a Cahor type multi satellite dish like the Big Bisat. Or if you want to do it cheap a bog standard 80cm mesh dish will get you 28, 19 and 13 with no problems(maybes even 9 too). Most multi LNB brackets fit most dishes.

 

[Offtensive]

I have just set up a 60cm mini dish for 28E +19E +13E works ok,
Use these pictures as a guide,
I think 7 east could be added as well will try this week the illustration showing 42E + 28E + 19E + 13E + 5E is stretching it a bit too far as only very strong transponders on 42E may come in but until you try ?View attachment 68719

Hi William,
Is that a gibertini multi lnb holder that you have used?

Thanks

 

[jeallen01]

FWIW as I don't have that LNB holder, but I can see both possible advantages and disadvantages with that design:
- Advantages: the flat bar appears to support the LNBs very well, and to angle the outer ones towards the relevant parts of the dish face.
- Disadvantages: it may be "dish specfic" due to the way the LNBs are angled, and you probably can't manually adjust the angles by simply bending the bar like you can with the flat bar types mentioned earlier; the LNB clamps look quite wide and that could prevent adjacent LNBs being placed very close to each other, whereas with the other type, the clamps are not as wide and you could actually bolt adjacent ones to opposite faces of the bar so as to slightly "stagger" them a bit closer together.

 

[william-1]

Hi William,
Is that a gibertini multi lnb holder that you have used?

Thanks

No