New dish advice?

[iceman325]

I am currently running a Dm500s using a sky minidish. But im looking to upgrade it as im setting a Dm800HD in another room. As i have a very early minidish (1999), i have been told that the LNB cant be changed.

Also, with a bigger/better dish i assume i should get a better signal and less interuption during bad weather.

The minidish is 40cm so looking to get a 60/65cm dish. As this is 50% larger, i presume it will be much better?

Also, the general opinions are that solid is beter than mesh so will be getting a solid.

I will also be adding a quad LNB to future proof it.

So the question is, what dish and lnb would you reccomend? I have a budget of around ?70 for the pair.

Is this any good? Triax TD64 64cm Solid Satellite Dish Freesat Sky Free To Air | eBay

[dick b]

I run near Hull a triax 64cm just for 28.2E with a quad lnb serving 4 rooms and its no trouble at all no rain fade etc: and should suit no problem.as to LNB I"v got a cheap lemon on it but its fine as 28.2E is really strong on all TPs in the UK.(just get the skew right)

[ramjet]

59cm zone 2 raven here in the nw (as used in scotland) with a sly octo on it, but did have a sly quad on it previously

[iceman325]

I run near Hull a triax 64cm just for 28.2E with a quad lnb serving 4 rooms and its no trouble at all no rain fade etc: and should suit no problem.as to LNB I"v got a cheap lemon on it but its fine as 28.2E is really strong on all TPs in the UK.(just get the skew right)

Thanks, triax it is then.

[benny/9]

hi mate,
i have a virtually new triax 110 with a inverto black gold lnb
i my garage and if your in the north west of the uk erea then
you can have it free of charge,

[iceman325]

hi mate,
i have a virtually new triax 110 with a inverto black gold lnb
i my garage and if your in the north west of the uk erea then
you can have it free of charge,

Thank you for the offer. I am in Manchester but the dish size is just too big unfortunately. is the LNB single or dual?

[Shady]

hi mate,
i have a virtually new triax 110 with a inverto black gold lnb
i my garage and if your in the north west of the uk erea then
you can have it free of charge,

what a superbly kind offer. top bloke

[benny/9]

Thank you for the offer. I am in Manchester but the dish size is just too big unfortunately. is the LNB single or dual?

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these triax 110 dishes are only a good sized 1m dish and
can be fitted on house without permission,the lnb is a single

[dick b]

Thank you for the offer. I am in Manchester but the dish size is just too big unfortunately. is the LNB single or dual?

I"d snap it up mate you can at a later date add a multi lnb rail for other sats.you can get a quad lnb and wall mount for under ?40 if you shop around.

[iceman325]

I"d snap it up mate you can at a later date add a multi lnb rail for other sats.you can get a quad lnb and wall mount for under ?40 if you shop around.

The dish is just too big to where i want to mount it. Fantastic offer though.

[iceman325]

Now that ive decided to go with the Triax TD64 dish, i need to choose a quad lnb. I only require two feeds but im getting a quad to future proof.

The obvious lnb is getting a triax one like here, Triax Universal Quad LNB with 40mm Neck | eBay

Or shall i get one that is claimed to be better signal strenth and quality? TECHNOMATE TM-4 HIGH-GAIN GOLD 0.1dB QUAD LNB | eBay

[dick b]

either of those will be fine and doubt you would find any difference.seal the unused outlets with self amalalg tape(or some other method)

[iceman325]

Sorry to bring this back up but ive just noticed that you can get a Sky zone2 dish which is 60cm.

Question is, it the zone 2 dish much better than a standard 40cm dish and a triax td64?

Thanks

[ramjet]

a 59cm zone 2 sly dish is better than a 39cm zone 1 because it is bigger (obviously)

the triax is better than both of them, but chances are you will be ok with a zone 2 as long as its for using as a fixed dish and nor motorised. so if you ever plan to go motorised stick with a triax, the bigger the better

[iceman325]

Cheers mate.

I think ill go for the zone 2 as i can get it with a quad lnb for about half the price of the triax.

And as i will only be using it to pickup 28.2e, i should be ok.