Dishes on holiday

[RimaNTSS]

Looks like a gregorian type cm 1.8m or even prodelin?

Nope, they do not install 1,8m antennas on top of the vans. It is certainly 1,2m.

 

[RimaNTSS]

Remember, I had modified one INOX wall antenna holder? So, presented it to friend of mine and already installed to her wall. Triax 110 will go there for Astra 4 (Ex Sirius) reception. Twin LNB for twin-tuner Viasat receiver.

 

[Archived-1]

A few extra bits and you have a mount there Rimants , nice work

 

[RimaNTSS]

Installed and tuned Triax 110cm. I have never experienced new but faulty LNB before. This Twin, which came as a Viasat package was first one! Only one output is working. Very strange! Anyway, dish is installed and owner is happy, but still has to resolve faulty LNB issue.

 

[RimaNTSS]

Hey, English! Did not see any interesting dishes to take pictures of except this one Majority of houses have only small sk* ones installed. Is that only in London?

 

[Archived-1]

Hey, English! Did not see any interesting dishes to take pictures of except this one View attachment 85897 Majority of houses have only small sk* ones installed. Is that only in London?

Are you over here now Rimants ?, in Sheffield its mainly sky dishes, but there are certain parts of the city we have Asian communities and you will see bigger dishes around these areas, my next door neighbour is polish he laughs at me and my dishes, he has a 80cm pointed at 13E

 

[RimaNTSS]

but there are certain parts of the city we have Asian communities and you will see bigger dishes around these areas

is that safe to go to those areas at night time? ;)

 

[Archived-1]

is that safe to go to those areas at night time? ;)

Make your own mind up Rimants

 

[Archived-1]

Just found this on the internet, dishes most be hard to come by here. I think I will try this dish arm mod.

 

[lovelyperson]

Local advertising and obviously not read our thread on 'pole must be plumb upright.

 

[RimaNTSS]

Did not see this dish, just copied from internet, and I like it (the dish, not the copy process)

 

[nelson_b]

Brilliant ---- what a fantastic dish

 

[Pipedream]

This one was in Sidari Corfu

 

[RimaNTSS]

I was on one nice roof today. Nice, cuz there are lots of antennas installed . But reason was to help friend of mine to tune his new Laminas 2,7 m and, potentially, catch Turksat 4A @42*E. We did not succeed, and several reasons for that, such as: according to coverage zones at least 3 meters (maybe even bigger) dish is needed. Secondly, after we made string test there was almost 1 cm gap. We eliminated gap later, but that did not help. I also suspect that when they assembled antenna it was face-down on not very flat surface. I've made antenna's measurements and they are 2710mm x 3015 mm and depth 275mm. Did not have possibility to check whether LNB is in focus and is it looking at the proper point on the surface of the dish.

 

[archive10]

I was on one nice roof today. Nice, cuz there are lots of antennas installed View attachment 87054 . But reason was to help friend of mine to tune his new Laminas 2,7 m and, potentially, catch Turksat 4A @42*E. We did not succeed, and several reasons for that, such as: according to coverage zones at least 3 meters (maybe even bigger) dish is needed. Secondly, after we made string test there was almost 1 cm gap. We eliminated gap later, but that did not help. I also suspect that when they assembled antenna it was face-down on not very flat surface. I've made antenna's measurements and they are 2710mm x 3015 mm and depth 275mm. Did not have possibility to check whether LNB is in focus and is it looking at the proper point on the surface of the dish.

Apart from all the nice stuff up there...
I see lots of white cabling.
I have learnt, by now, that PE sheathing is the only way to go for *outdoor* cables.
And Poly-Ethylene tends to be manufactured as *black or grey*, not white.
If you get another chance on the roof, can you check the cables, just out of curiosity, and see if they will last (PE), or if they will degrade in a few years to render all the large nice dishes useless?


Do you remeber

 

[Archived-1]

Hi, me and the wife had a run out this morning, there used to be a few dishes here but down to one now, I think its something to do with virgin media.

It quite high above sea level here surely cant be good for reception on a morning like this, I would love to go mobile up here with a 1.8 on a nice day.

 

[Pipedream]

Hi, me and the wife had a run out this morning, there used to be a few dishes here but down to one now, I think its something to do with virgin media.

It quite high above sea level here surely cant be good for reception on a morning like this, I would love to go mobile up here with a 1.8 on a nice day.
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It looks very much like the one near the crematorium at Grenoside.

 

[Archived-1]

It looks very much like the one near the crematorium at Grenoside.

This should confirm it Steve a little bit higher up the hill.

 

[Archived-1]

Can you remember when there was a few Steve ?.

 

[RimaNTSS]

Another mega-penta dish