Clear Satellite Dishes..

[GavS]

Hi guys... im looking to take a leap and go from cable to sat... My kryptview is doing my head in..

I am looking at putting a 0.8-1m dish on the back of my flat... Ground floor so the dish will be roughly 3-4m from ground level (on an almost south facing wall). The buildings in front of where the dish is going to be situated, are only single storey and quite a bit away. I'm located in Central Scotland..

I have been looking at dishes and have seen some transparent ones available. Are these any good? I don't want my neighbours complaining about the size of the dish so I thought a transparent dish might make it less of an issue.

TIA

Gav

[mark8393]

What Sats are you after, if just sly, standard mini dish would do

[GavS]

What Sats are you after, if just sly, standard mini dish would do

The honest answer is... i'm not sure..

Sly is the primary one but I am quite interested in seeing what is available on some of the other European sat's..

I am totally open to any advice anyone can give me... I am feeling a bit out of my depth at the moment :-)

[ramjet]

ideally you want a motorised dish then, but neighbours may object to motor noise as well as the size of it

[GavS]

ideally you want a motorised dish then, but neighbours may object to motor noise as well as the size of it

Really? Are they that loud? The dish is going to be situated between the kitchen and bathroom windows so it's going to be a bit away from any bedrooms...

[ramjet]

you need to decide what satellites you wish to view and how many of them

then dicide on fixed dish with 1 lnb, fixed dish with several lnb,s , or motorised dish

if you are worried about size, then you should also be worried about motor noise (the noise varies but seems louder at night)

[GavS]

Hmm.. thats something to think about..

I'm looking for movies and sports coverage.. Which satellites should I be looking at? Astra + Hotbird.. Any others?

[ramjet]

Hmm.. thats something to think about..

I'm looking for movies and sports coverage.. Which satellites should I be looking at? Astra + Hotbird.. Any others?

30w , 0.8w , 5e , 7e , 10e , 13e , 16e , 19e , 28e , 39e , 42e

[andy91]

Could always put this on the dish:idea:
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Andy.

[GavS]

30w , 0.8w , 5e , 7e , 10e , 13e , 16e , 19e , 28e , 39e , 42e


Should manage all of them except 39e and 42e...

Well according to dishpointer...


....Clear dishes.... are they any good? :-)

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Should manage all of them except 39e and 42e...

Well according to dishpointer...


....Clear dishes.... are they any good? :-)

Clear sat dishes only go up 85cm,so you should pick up most sats needed,motor you can hear them but they aint that bad with the noise depends on how fussy your neighbours are....

[GavS]

Clear sat dishes only go up 85cm,so you should pick up most sats needed,motor you can hear them but they aint that bad with the noise depends on how fussy your neighbours are....

Thanks guy's.. The info is great..

They aren't too bad but I just don't want to give them any major reason to moan :-)

85cm Primesat transparent dish
50mm Tmount with 480mm stand-off
Inverto Black Ultra LNB
Technomate TM-2300

This looks like it's going to be my shopping list.....

How does it look to you guys? (i bow to your superior knowledge)

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Thanks guy's.. The info is great..

They aren't too bad but I just don't want to give them any major reason to moan :-)

85cm Primesat transparent dish
50mm Tmount with 480mm stand-off
Inverto Black Ultra LNB
Technomate TM-2300

This looks like it's going to be my shopping list.....

How does it look to you guys? (i bow to your superior knowledge)

Looks great & should be fine...

[GavS]

Thanks Override......

That just leaves me a decoder to look into..

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Thanks Override......

That just leaves me a decoder to look into..


Depends on your budget but either VU+ or DM800se...