Dishes on holiday

Markjose

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strong winds? Also I agree his neigbours must be get very generous Christmas presents
 

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Primesat/Famaval 1.8 PF C/ku/Ka, Octagon SX8HD1, SX88, Openbox S3 Mini HD-V8S Freesat V7 HD-V8 Finder, Amiko A4K Combo, Satlook Colour HD Spectrum, Sansui A909 Amp and BOSE Acoustimass speakers for the audio.
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Staffs UK
Here's a better view
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Sheffield??
 

s-band

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1.5m IRTE PF, Invacom SNF-031, TBS6983,
Various L, S, C, X & Ka bits. 1.2m S/X/Ku/Ka Prodelin on Az-El (being refurbished), 1.8m Precision PF with Bullseye Ku LNB or various C & X bits
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Essex

T_G

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1 GigaBlue Quad plus, 1 Dreambox 5620, MOTECK SG2100A DISEqC Motor, 120 cm noname offset dish, Humax 95 cm offset dish and a few UK digiboxes.
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Somewhere where the Sauer is Kraut and the Wurst is Brat
Lovely patina on this one, spotted in Trapani, Sicily. There are a lot of analogue antennae on the roofs here. IMG_20230920_101524.jpg
 

sonnetpete

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Laminas 1.2M fibre dish with an IBU, on a Clarke Tech USALS motor, covering 57E - 24.5W to an Octagon SX88. Displayed on a 20" Dyon LED TV.

Seperate 80 cm dish on 28E with a Humax Freesat for SWMBO.
Free Sat V8 meter. Sony Bravia 46" LCD, Sony BluRay and Home Cinema.
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Normandy, France
Nice selection opposite our 7th floor Air B&b in Istanbul. Not sure about 'health and safety' for the installers... 20231011_094612.jpg20231011_094612.jpg
 

Channel Hopper

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A little less analogue, and a lot more crap.
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Most likely, it does not really matter if the signal from the satellite is strong enough to get reception even on 0.5m dish.
A good installer can also add 'scalarity' to an offset feed, using a decent hammer.
 

sonnetpete

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Laminas 1.2M fibre dish with an IBU, on a Clarke Tech USALS motor, covering 57E - 24.5W to an Octagon SX88. Displayed on a 20" Dyon LED TV.

Seperate 80 cm dish on 28E with a Humax Freesat for SWMBO.
Free Sat V8 meter. Sony Bravia 46" LCD, Sony BluRay and Home Cinema.
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Normandy, France
I'm not sure where the feeds from the dishes went, as the building opposite was pretty well derelict. The larger dish on the right was a feed for a 5* hotel.
 

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Prodelin PFA 240 cm + EGIS ProfiTracker + Chaparral PR1 Ku feed
Octagon SF8008 (Twin & Combo) + TBS 6925
Chaparral M140 + Echostar DVR-7000 HDD + Lyngbox
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Melmac
Etisalat Jebel Ali ES the other day... it's hard to get a clear view of the facility nowadays, construction & buildings all around... it used to be nothing but a desert in the old dayz.

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Channel Hopper

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Etisalat Jebel Ali ES the other day... it's hard to get a clear view of the facility nowadays, construction & buildings all around... it used to be nothing but a desert in the old dayz.

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I went there in 1992, it had became a major transfer port a few years earlier. I saw many warehouses converted from manual labour to mechanised.

Fitted many dishes there and nearby, many friends I made in the process. Another 15 years to go before the contract is up for tax free status.
 
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Adam792

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Dishes: 80cm (5°W), 80cm (30°W), 60cm Zone 2 (13°E/19.2°E/28.2°E)
Receivers: HTPC w/ TBS6905 4x DVB-S2 PCIe tuner card running TVHeadend, Octagon SF8008 mini.
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A couple of big ones on the roof of the TVNZ building in Auckland, New Zealand!
 

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rodscha

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carcassonne south france,700ks south of Paris ,300k N of Barcelona
Lovely patina on this one, spotted in Trapani, Sicily. There are a lot of analogue antennae on the roofs here. View attachment 151888
the "analogue" antennas work fine on "digital" terrestrial.
Here i still have 1 "H" shaped for 819 lines black & white,along with a "2è chaine" yagi...which gives me the DTT bouquet (la TNT)
Never had to change it...Only the 819 signal has gone....
btw same for the dish... and lnb also "did" analogue when it was there.
 

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Satfaca

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The other day in Norway...

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Satfaca

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