Dish Size ?

[Derekwd]

How do i find out sat dish size, i live in the northwest, my house faces east ish,
I am getting a TM600 later this week
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I have a sky dish up now and will just be on freesat for a while but want to try and get a motorized dish in a month or two.

As the dish will be on the front of the house i want to keep it as small as i can but dont want to loose out on any channels i might be able to get.


Thanks for any info
Derek

[Satsearching]

Rule of thumb, go for the biggest you can manage.

at least 80, 90 or 100cm dish.

Worth spending some time on lyngsat

For example, click on Thor 3/5/6 & Intelsat 10-02 at 0.8°W - LyngSat

There is a list of the channels on 1'w, note the column on the right called "Beam" As can be seen, the satellites at that location have various different beams or "Foot prints" (K1, K2, Spot 2, Spot1, T1, T2 etc).

If you click on the beam links, it gives you a rough idea on the dish size for your area.

So look up the satellites and channels you are mostly interested in, check the beam/foot print for your area and work out what dish size you want.

But as I say, min is really 80 to 90cm, I use a 100cm. But if it is just certain Euro channels you want, you could work out a smaller size using lyngsat.

hth
SS

[nj2006]

personaly i opted for the 80cm motoized pack from Wizard Satellite, Satellite receivers, dishes, lnbs and equipment thanks to renny and ss with a dm500s

not meny people notice my dish on the frount of the house lol some friends have only just noticed it a year on .

[Derekwd]

Thanks lads,can see its a bit more involved than dbox (flash,ftp and watch lol)
but something to play with instead of the crap on virgin/sky

Going to go with motorized 90cm i think and see what i can get, hopefully not be to noticeable lol.

As i am new to this sat millarky mabe need a bit more advice when i get my dish lol

Thanks Derek

[Satsearching]

If you are concious of the dish standing out, you could spray paint it with a colour to match the background!

Normally a non-metalic matt car paint aerosol will do, just don't spray the lnb face.

SS

[PaphosAL]

Weren't you cold dressed up as that snowman, Nj? Out of interest, why did you opt for a mount point for the dish some distance away from your intended cable entry point, m8?

[RoYaL KiD]

@ AL, probably line of sight.

@ Derek, you could buy this lol sateuropa.co.uk: SatPlus 85cm Transparent Dish

[nj2006]

Originally Posted by PaphosAL

Weren't you cold dressed up as that snowman, Nj? Out of interest, why did you opt for a mount point for the dish some distance away from your intended cable entry point, m8?

no reason really apart from it wasnt right above my front door there although cable enrty should of been the attic looking back at it now

[Satsearching]

Propper upwards drip loop entry with sealent noted though!

Originally Posted by nj2006

no reason really apart from it wasnt right above my front door there although cable enrty should of been the attic looking back at it now

[Derekwd]

@R K,not a bad idea m8, but gave it some thought and not too bothered really as neighbors next door are not bad, i live in a semi and mine is the last in the street before a big play field, people across road facing mine are not bad either so hopefully wont have a problem lol

Cheers Derek