dish size for Hotbird help

[total newby]

hi im lookin for advice on a dish and lnb type for hotbird, iv seen dishes on ebay 100cm with no lnb for ?50 deliverd but has no lnb are these dishes sutable? also what lnb would do the job many thanks alan.

[djpopeye1971]

check the 3 sats on one dish posts took me a while but if you have meter and 80 cm dish you could do that

[ramjet]

hi im lookin for advice on a dish and lnb type for hotbird, iv seen dishes on ebay 100cm with no lnb for ?50 deliverd but has no lnb are these dishes sutable? also what lnb would do the job many thanks alan.

if you are uk based then almost any dish will do the job from 40cm upwards but I would suggest a zone 2 60cm sly dish or similar size or bigger and use a universal lnb

so for the uk a zone 2 sly dish with sly lnb would work and would be the cheapest I would think due to the plentiful nature of them and availability

any size bigger than that will work but is overkill

[BigfatPaulie]

I'm in the Midlands, and get hotbird on a standard sky minidish!

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[djpopeye1971]

i did what digicon did 3 lnbs on a zone 2 sly dish its mint

[andy91]

Amazing if you browse the forum what you might find.

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/f11/required-dish-size-guide-7076/

Andy.

[mdt]

I'm in the Midlands, and get hotbird on a standard sky minidish!

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you get all transponders in all weather on a zone1 mini-dish?

OP if you want reliable reception of all channels from 13 east get yourself a quality dish and lnb like the triax td78 and inverto black ultra... granted a zone2 will suffice but imo its best to buy quality components now as you may want to upgrade in the future. regards mdt

[djpopeye1971]

i did what digicon done i look forward to the future and a dish up now may not we what we are using in a year or so

[mdt]

i did what digicon did 3 lnbs on a zone 2 sly dish its mint




your dish is a generic triax td78 copy m8 not a zone2 mini-dish although id choose yours over the zone2 myself. regards mdt

[total newby]

thanks for the comments iv got a standard sky dish at the moment oval mesh type around 60cm, i pointed it at the hotbird sat with the meter and got it spot on, but only getting about 14 chanels , any ideas? im in scotland uk

[ramjet]

make sure its got a universal lnb on it

if it was an old dish with the analogue lnb, the lnb would need changing

but if it worked with sly digital and all the channels on their box it should work on hotbird

[mdt]

thanks for the comments iv got a standard sky dish at the moment oval mesh type around 60cm, i pointed it at the hotbird sat with the meter and got it spot on, but only getting about 14 chanels , any ideas? im in scotland uk

are you sure you are on hotbird? can you name some of the 14 channels? even with a old analogue lnb of 10ghz you would still get more than 14 channels. regards mdt

[gerrywac]

I've just bought a Skybox F3 receiver and as my motorised dish is U/s hooked it up to a cheap 40cm camping dish and several year old "no-name" Universal LNB, for a quick test set up with a meter

Pulled in 400+ FTA channels on Hotbird at varying qualities. I'm in Leeds West Yorkshire

My normal dish was a 50cm on a Technomate 2300 motor ha pulled in numerous sats an more channels than my old box could handle

I know Scotland is further north but 14 seems a bit low

Gezz

[jr250]

I can get plenty channels on Hotbird with a 88 cm dish and I am way up the North West of Scotland.