Florida Trouble With Smaller C Band Dish?

[keebs]

I Found A 6ft And A 8ft C Band Dish In Really Good Condition. From What I Understand This Size Dish Might Be A Problem Here In Florida? Is This True? The Owners Had The Dish So How Bad Can It Be? What Would Be My Limitations With This Size? The 6 Footer Looks Almost New. Thanks------

I think rainman and wejones has big dishes of about same size and a few others. They will have better info and several years experience = best bet for info + a few others.


I think you might also want to ? take a string / thin rope and let it slowly curve to the bow ? of the dish and so verify if a part is bent / will cause possible problems or something similar.

[pmb1010]

there are many factors other than simply dish size that can make reception troublesome.

- LNB(F) used (some are better than others)

- sat being looked at.

Example: you can find out how "strong" a satellite you are looking to use from Lyngsat:
Galaxy 13/Horizons 1 at 127.0°W - LyngSat Maps

Look at it's "footprint" and how much signal (ERP) is being splayed onto where you are. So it would seem in FL the signal for HBO on cband should be pretty good.

Another issue with smaller dishes is co-satellite interference. The C band signal from a co-located sat (ie: one at 127W and 129W) might interfere with each other. THe smaller dish's view will see both of them at the same time, where the bigger dish could discern the beams better.

So will a 6 foot work? Yes. Will a 8 or 10 foot work better? most likely.

If you are doing this for fun - put in the 6 footer. If you are doing this for serious TV work - get the biggest you can afford, find, install. I think you'll be happer in the long run.

[rainman]

as pmb1010 said bigger is better due to the side interference from other sats 2 degrees apart. so go with the 8 footer also use a good lnbf or a good feedhorn and lnb's.