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Originally Posted by rainman
got the norsats on the way should be here next week. have to say got a great wife to put up with my hobbie.  |
What type Norsats did you get? Those things vary in price from under $100 to up around $1000. Last time I replaced an NLB, I replaced a CalAmp lnb with a Norsat. My goal was to reduce the freq drift. My CalAmp tended to drift about 1.5 MHz at times. The Norsat I got, which was one of their cheaper lnbs, was one rated for about 0.75 MHz drift, and it has performed as advertised drift wise.
Other than the drift though, I think my CalAmp was actually a bit better relative to sensitivity, and the Norsat seems a bit better relative to noise, although that's probably because my CalAmp was pretty old. But I got the impression that maybe Norsats didn't have quite as much gain as CalAmps in order to get better noise figures. Overall though I've been pretty happy with my Norsat. It locks much faster on DCII signals. If you got one of the more expensive ones, I'd be interested in what you think of it.