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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thecaretaker" data-source="post: 579214" data-attributes="member: 292455">Well, the weather was nice and sunny this morning, so I swapped over the Traix for the Fracarro Penta. I've just checked each of the sats and tps I originally took reading for. Here are my results:[CODE]Satellite - Triax 64 - tp - Fracarro 681w 93%/80% (12.187V) 95%/82%4W 93%/48% (10.722H) 92%/49%5W 97%/77% (11.512V) 97%/77%8W 96%/79% (12.649V) 97%/79%12.5W 93%/59% (12.545H) 93%/64%15W 85%/60% (11.566H) 88%/67%22W 89%/69% (11.609H) 89%/75%24.5W 82%/70% (11.025V) 82%/71%27.5W 92%/64% (11.665V) 93%/60%30W 95%/76% 12.012V) 95%/80%43W 94%/69% (12.658V) 95%/73%45W 94%/73% (11.510H) 95%/74%58W 94%/70% (11.477H) 94%/70%4.0E 86%/53% (11.047H) 90%/58%4.8E 92%/73% (11.766H) 92%/73%7E 94%/67% (11.492V) 94%/66%9E 93%/74% (11.804V) 94%/75%10E 84%/53% (11.175H) - no signal13E 97%/78% (12.597V) 97%/80%16E 92%/52% (11.055V) 92%/47%19.2E 97%/80% (12.246V) 97%/80%23.5E 91%/49% (12.565V) 92%/51%26E 92%/49% (12.532H) - no signal28.2E 97%/82% (10.773H) 97%/78%33E 81%/66% (11.094H) 82%/66%36E 88%/47% (12.557V) 89%/47%39E 89%/74% (12.715H) 90%/74%42E 94%/77% (11.803V) 94%/78%[/CODE]To be totally honest, I didn't think there was any difference until I did the check. Most satellites show a very small improvement in either signal strength or quality or both. I wouldn't go as far to say it is working the same as an 80cm dish, maybe a very poorly made one.I've lost the few channels I had on 10E & 26E. 28.2E bleeds over more on 26E. For some odd reason I've noticed a drop in quality on Astra 28.2E, strength is the same but the quality has gone from 82% down to 78%. Maybe it still needs some tweaking, maybe the lnb angle.All in all, the improvement is tiny, but a few of the very weak signals on 1W are not breaking up so readily. The Fracarro dish seems very well built. Screwing the screws and bolts through the dish for the rear plate doesn't seem to deform the aluminium at all. Looking at the Triax dish closely shows very slight pulling of the dish metal. The feed arm and rear brackets are very solidly built (nice thick metal). I needs some time to play with it now!</blockquote>

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