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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1114153" data-attributes="member: 176704">Manufacturer's claimed performance is &quot;one thing&quot;, whereas the &quot;real life&quot; performance of a dish can be be totally &quot;something else&quot; - it hugely depends on how well the dish is &quot;set up&quot;.When I was physically more able than I am now ( deterioration due to a dodgy knee, and a much dodgier spine + &quot;age&quot;!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite14" alt=":-doh" title="DOH!&nbsp; &nbsp; :-doh" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":-doh" /> ) I would take a long time to carefully get the azimuth, elevation and declination as accurately as possible for each dish (and especially the steerable ones) and that worked pretty well &quot;on average&quot;- even with cheap/recycled &quot;no name&quot; dishes! (I can still deal with aligning my fixed dishes, but I generally have to &quot;call in the cavalry&quot; for the steerable ones).Therefore, don't make the &quot;paper specs&quot; the main reason for choosing one dish over another of a relatively similar size because the real deciding factor (especially if you are &quot;new to the game&quot;) should be how easily you think that you can get the best out of it (and whether you can actually physically handle the task of alignment).BTW: something along the above lines has been written here VERY MANY TIMES &quot;over the years&quot; (in fact, we get pretty &quot;tired&quot; of repeating that advice<img src="http://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />!)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1114153, member: 176704"] Manufacturer's claimed performance is "one thing", whereas the "real life" performance of a dish can be be [I]totally[/I] "something else" -[B] it hugely depends on how well the dish is "set up".[/B] When I was physically more able than I am now ( deterioration due to a dodgy knee, and a much dodgier spine + "age"!:-doh ) I would take a long time to carefully get the azimuth, elevation and declination as accurately as possible for each dish (and especially the steerable ones) and that worked pretty well "on average"- [I]even with cheap/recycled "no name" dishes![/I] (I can still deal with aligning my fixed dishes, but I generally have to "call in the cavalry" for the steerable ones). Therefore, [B]don't[/B] make the "paper specs" the main reason for choosing one [B]dish over another of a relatively similar size because the real deciding factor (especially if you are "new to the game") should[/B] be how easily you think that you can get the best out of it [I](and whether you can actually physically handle the task of alignment)[/I]. BTW: something along the above lines has been written here VERY MANY TIMES "over the years" [I](in fact, we get pretty "tired" of repeating that advice:rolleyes:!)[/I] [/QUOTE]

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