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Sky & Freesat fringe reception
poor Freesat in Alicante, Costa Blanca 2.4m Fortec Star dish
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<blockquote data-quote="dxsat" data-source="post: 577963" data-attributes="member: 193607"><p>Andy-</p><p>If money is tight you had better go for the Famaval (Portugese) and fit it with an Invacom quad and Invacom ADF-120 feedhorn (both available directly from Invacom)</p><p>Some facts which are indisputable:-</p><p>•Prime focus dishes HAVE to be fitted with a C120 LNB and adjustable prime focus feedhorn. They should NEVER be fitted with a LNBF or one- piece LNB.</p><p>•Installers in your area typically fit prime focus dishes with a LNBF as they are cheap (for the installer- typically less than 10 euros for a Sharp or similar)</p><p>•Offset dishes have higher gain than prime focus of the same size. The reasons are complicated but they relate to laws of nature not opinion.</p><p>•All dishes larger than 120 cm work better with a C120 LNB and feedhorn matched to the dish, particularly for BBC & ITV (Astra 2D). Dishes larger than 120cm will work with a LNBF fitted, but never to their full potential.</p><p></p><p>The idea that ASC signal dishes 'flex in the wind' is one of the more ridiculous things I have read for some time. They are highly stable and have the strongest support structure of any dish made for direct to home reception.. It's FortecStar and other metal sheet dishes such as Famaval that flex in the wind: one strong gust can destroy a FortecStar 2.4m.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dxsat, post: 577963, member: 193607"] Andy- If money is tight you had better go for the Famaval (Portugese) and fit it with an Invacom quad and Invacom ADF-120 feedhorn (both available directly from Invacom) Some facts which are indisputable:- •Prime focus dishes HAVE to be fitted with a C120 LNB and adjustable prime focus feedhorn. They should NEVER be fitted with a LNBF or one- piece LNB. •Installers in your area typically fit prime focus dishes with a LNBF as they are cheap (for the installer- typically less than 10 euros for a Sharp or similar) •Offset dishes have higher gain than prime focus of the same size. The reasons are complicated but they relate to laws of nature not opinion. •All dishes larger than 120 cm work better with a C120 LNB and feedhorn matched to the dish, particularly for BBC & ITV (Astra 2D). Dishes larger than 120cm will work with a LNBF fitted, but never to their full potential. The idea that ASC signal dishes 'flex in the wind' is one of the more ridiculous things I have read for some time. They are highly stable and have the strongest support structure of any dish made for direct to home reception.. It's FortecStar and other metal sheet dishes such as Famaval that flex in the wind: one strong gust can destroy a FortecStar 2.4m. [/QUOTE]
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