What Sats Can you pick up with your size dish and where you Inland ?

Hi All,

I thought i would start this Thread as just a comparison to all members on there set up and where they are in the world so people can compare and see what size dish etc they need to get the satellites that they want to view ?

I have a Spiderbox STB with a Triax 95 cm dish with a Dark Motor on the side of my garage and i am about 30 miles away from London, I can pick up with good quality reception from the following Satellites up in the sky they are as follows -

45 East , 42 East, 39 East, 28.2 East, 26 East, 19.2 East, 16 East (or 15.8), 13 East, 10 East, 9 East, 7 East, 4.8 East, 4 East, 0.8 West, 1 West, 5 West, 8 West, 12.5 West, 15 West, 18 West, 22 West, 30 West.

Would be most grateful to know how others are getting with there reception quality and strenght around our globe ??

Saluti
Carmine

Quote from glenviewjf

Good thread m8..

Kerry, Ireland myself...

My set up is pretty off at the min due to an exposed dish in the wind!

Spiderbox 5000sd on an 80cm fixed dish on 28.2 east...

Dm500s with a disque motor with another 80cm only picking up 28.2 e, 23.5 e, 19e, 13e, 7e, 5e, 5w, 8w and 30w at the min...

After ordering an "Inverto Black Ultra Single LNB HIGH GAIN" so i hope with a bit of tweaking i will be able to get the weaker sats like 16 east and 0.8 west again

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Hi Glen,

I bought an Inverto Black Ultra and noticed a great difference in quality great buy.

Quote from pem1

vu duo 1.2 fibo i can get 45east to 53 west ? but 7 west nile sat is very weak all other ok ? i am in north west uk

wow you get 53 west whats worth watching there and how big is your dish ?

Quote from The A of AJ

Currently using a T90.

Getting 28e 23e 19e 13e 10+9e 4e 1w 5w

1m orbital. i could get from 42e to 30w 26e was just there and sometimes 7w

just south of london GB

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Hello A of AJ,
wow you get 7 west sometimes that`s a bonus i have never been able to get 7 west thats a hard one , thought you needed a dish the size of a house tp pick up that one lol !!!
I can get quite a bit on 26 east all through the day.

Saluti
Carmine

Quote from dream500

Nice set up pem1, I also have a 1.2m Fibo Gregorian dish. Quite fortunate with my location as I have an undisturbed view of the Southern sky.

Arc is about 50E to 58W with not much useful in the outer limits, concentrate mainly 36E to 30W with, like you, a struggle with 7W most of the time. I'm in the West Midlands.
For those who don't know what a gregorian dish is, this is the 90cm version. They really are the dogz nutz

Nice one Dream 500, great dish indeed

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the last time i had 7 west was a few years ago when i had my 1m ordital up. T90 won`t touch that sat anymore.

I will be trying later this year with a CM1.2m with feed horn so should get some good results with that.

feed horn is that whats on the set up photo above ??

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Thanks for that mate, anyone else looking to share there set up with what they can see please post here .....