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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 789341" data-attributes="member: 175144">It's worth checking the following thread<a href="http://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/fringe-reception-general/197162-ka-reception-no-go-so-far-me.html" target="_blank">http://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/fringe-reception-general/197162-ka-reception-no-go-so-far-me.html</a>for those experimenting outside the main footprint. And it is highly unlikely that any manufacturer is going to bring out a dual probe LNB for simultaneous viewing of Ku and Ka broadcasts anytime soon, the feed parameters behind each frequency is completely different. Don't forget the horrors that were the mixed Ku/C band units, which are of similar magnitude apart. What you gain in bandwidth, you lose in overall gain/efficiency, and at 20GHz, enlarging the dish size is not an option unless you have pots of cash. For now a potential solution will be a dual broadcast at Ka-band (for certain channels anyway), as the bandwidth allows quite a bit of spare capacity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 789341, member: 175144"] It's worth checking the following thread [url]http://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/fringe-reception-general/197162-ka-reception-no-go-so-far-me.html[/url] for those experimenting outside the main footprint. And it is highly unlikely that any manufacturer is going to bring out a dual probe LNB for simultaneous viewing of Ku and Ka broadcasts anytime soon, the feed parameters behind each frequency is completely different. Don't forget the horrors that were the mixed Ku/C band units, which are of similar magnitude apart. What you gain in bandwidth, you lose in overall gain/efficiency, and at 20GHz, enlarging the dish size is not an option unless you have pots of cash. For now a potential solution will be a dual broadcast at Ka-band (for certain channels anyway), as the bandwidth allows quite a bit of spare capacity. [/QUOTE]

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