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Originally Posted by glen4cindy
The article did not address the sats being 2 degrees apart, but, it did indicate that the users achieved fairly high signal strength and qualtiy readings with very watchabel pictures.
I'm not going to run out and replace my 80cm with a 120 just to toy with this, but, I have seen and replied to posts regarding C-Band on a small dish and found this article interesting. |
Alot of us here have toyed with it. It's a fun hobby project. Not worth it if you want a reliable source for c-band, but if you like to play around and get some extra channels it can be fun to try.
SR is not a problem. I had equal success with high and low SR. Atlantic sats are alot easier and you will get 100s of channels because sats are spaced more apart.
On
120cm dish I believe beamwidth on c-band is something like 5 degrees. If you are
aiming to US sats, you better hope that it has a strong transponder and that there are no sats on either side of it that have signal on similar frequency (doesn't have to be same frequency since a transponder with high SR on adjacent sat can over flood bunch of frequencies with smaller SR on sat yuou are pointing too).
Some transponders are so strong that you can be pointing 2-3 degrees away from that sat and still get the signal in because beamwidth is so wide.