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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 1304" data-attributes="member: 174998">First, have a good browse through this board. You'll actually find answers to most of your questions.Very briefly:whether or not a dish of a particular size is good wnough depends on what you want to receive and where you are located. Since you don't say either, it's impossible to answer the question. Where I live (Holland) for example, an 80cm dish is sufficient for almost all European sats. But from most of the UK you would need a bigger dish for several (eg the Scandanavian ones, especially Sirius).And a mesh dish always has a slightly lower gain than a solid dish (say, between 10 and 20% less).Re. polar-mount/motor, for an 80cm dish a Jager99 SilentGold would be perfectly adequate and quite cheap. It's a good motor but check the dish you match it with because it interferes with some. Otherwise go for a slightly bigger Jaeger (also gives you more security against high winds).I'd never recommend buying pirate cards through the internet (or any other route for that matter). First, why line the pockets of the international criminal organisations that sell/source them? Secondly it's more satisfying and a lot cheaper to program your own...Why are you interested in 68.5e particularly? It's very low on the horizon from Europe (I assume that's where you are located) and there are plenty of sports and asian channels on other satellites.You must be more specific about what you want to weatch before we can advise you on what you need. But note: there are no Mediaguard-encrypted channels on that sat anyway, so your Aston CAM would not be suitable. They are mainly encrypted under the &quot;Irdeto&quot; system, and the majority are in C-band to boot (so you'd need a C-band LNBF, a prime-focus dish, and a receiver capable of accessing the lower C-band frequencies...)2old</blockquote>

[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 1304, member: 174998"] First, have a good browse through this board. You'll actually find answers to most of your questions. Very briefly: whether or not a dish of a particular size is good wnough depends on what you want to receive and where you are located. Since you don't say either, it's impossible to answer the question. Where I live (Holland) for example, an 80cm dish is sufficient for almost all European sats. But from most of the UK you would need a bigger dish for several (eg the Scandanavian ones, especially Sirius). And a mesh dish always has a slightly lower gain than a solid dish (say, between 10 and 20% less). Re. polar-mount/motor, for an 80cm dish a Jager99 SilentGold would be perfectly adequate and quite cheap. It's a good motor but check the dish you match it with because it interferes with some. Otherwise go for a slightly bigger Jaeger (also gives you more security against high winds). I'd never recommend buying pirate cards through the internet (or any other route for that matter). First, why line the pockets of the international criminal organisations that sell/source them? Secondly it's more satisfying and a lot cheaper to program your own... Why are you interested in 68.5e particularly? It's very low on the horizon from Europe (I assume that's where you are located) and there are plenty of sports and asian channels on other satellites. You must be more specific about what you want to weatch before we can advise you on what you need. But note: there are no Mediaguard-encrypted channels on that sat anyway, so your Aston CAM would not be suitable. They are mainly encrypted under the "Irdeto" system, and the majority are in C-band to boot (so you'd need a C-band LNBF, a prime-focus dish, and a receiver capable of accessing the lower C-band frequencies...) 2old [/QUOTE]

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