Big Dish

[Jim Dale]

this is a satellite dish i'd like if i had the right garden, what you think,
185cm Satellite Dish
£99.99
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Product Features
Large dish to receive foreign satellite channels
185cm C/KU band prime focus dish antenna
Vertical and lateral adjustments to fine tune the alignment
Contains 6 sections to make it easier to transport
C - Band gain @4.0 GHz 35.89 dB
KU - Band gain @12.5 GHz 45.54 dB
Focus length 682 mm
Mounting type ground mount
Pole diameter acceptable 75 mm
Net weight 29.0 kg




Technical Specification


Type: Prime
Diameter: 185 cm
Panels (sections): 6
Aperture Efficiency: 70% min.
C - Band Gain @4.0 GHz: 35.89 dB
KU - Band Gain @12.5 GHz: 45.54 dB
F/D Ratio: 0.38
Focus Length: 682 mm
Material: Steel
Finish: Polyester Powder Coating
Colour: Grey / Cool Grey
MOUNTING:
Mounting Type: Ground Mount
Elevation Angle Range: 0 - 90
Azimuth: 0 - 360
Material: Steel
Finish: Polyester Powder Coating
Colour: Grey / Cool Grey
Pole Diameter Acceptable: 75 mm
Net Weight: 29.0 kg
ENVIRONMENT:
Operational Winds: 25 m / sec
Survival Winds: 40 m / sec
Ambient Temperature: -40C ~ +60C
Relative Humidity: 0 ~ 100 %

[kegnkiwi]

I've heard that they are not very good. Very difficult to put together due to poor instructions, they are a leaf design that you assemble yourself. I think you get the quality you pay for.

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[Glenn_911]

Real bad Prime Focus dish in 6 pieces, start to rust in a few months, this OffSet Gibertini 1.5 very solid and 100 times better.

Or nr 2 Channel Master Gregorian 2.4 thats what we call a Dish


Glenn_911

[satwyn]

yes agree leave well alone for prime focus consider precision solid spun alloy they do 1.8 and 2.2M

[dez]

Hi

Can confirm that these are a very poor dish thats why they are so cheap

I use a 1.2 metre fibo gregorian which easily outperforms it and it is now 12 years old.
dez

[Jim Dale]

Glenn your dish looks stunning and what a size, do you live in spain because the picture look like you do, well it cant be britain can it, if you got a dish like that whats your tv setup like, its got to be bloody mind blowing better than mine, jim dale

[veron57]

This size dish spells divorce
The price is very good but I kind of believe you get what you pay for.

[Glenn_911]

Jim Dale


The Channel Master 2.4 don't belong to me but you can use him in the UK for the Ku and C band, also you can turn him in a spit second into a Gregorian dish so he will recieve more signal by sub refector in front.
The Gibertini 1.5 is equal on a 1.8 or more then the Prime Focus dish.


Glenn_911


My location Rotterdam the Netherlands.

[Keano]

Yes stay away from those Fortec Star dishes. They can be alright if you are a pro in setting them up. ie using a lazer to help.

I use to have a gibertini 150cm dish with matched feedhorn and it was very good, I still have it at the sie of my house stripped down.

Now I have a Channel Master/Andrews 240cm dish. This is great dish but will not go down well with the wife so not a good idea to get one unless you are single.

If I had a massive garden and lived in a area with no neighbours then I would love a 370cm Prodelin.

Here a picture of my dish.

[luis88]

Keano, best get some miracle grow for your camouflage plants m8! And to think of the **** i get about having a mere 1.2 in the garden and a 1m on the gable. Also not a million miles from you spotted a dish outside a boozer the other day, didn't get close enough to see what it was but it was behind a fence behind a caravan and still stickin out!

[ABA]

no to small ive got a 2.3 7ft 6in on top of a tower
the bottom of dish is about 7 ft off the floor in the back garden


and the wife has never said a thing

[dishdad]

.....Now I have a Channel Master/Andrews 240cm dish. This is great dish but will not go down well with the wife so not a good idea to get one unless you are single.....Here a picture of my dish.

¿¿¿Have you still retained the colour you painted it to....as?

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[Keano]

Yes It is still brown and those trees in front have gone. Also the trellis at the side now as green wind break mesh stapled to it.
It does actual work from the kitchen window you hardly notice it now :respect-059:

[wsm25]

185cm Satellite Dish
£99.99
http://i42.tinypic.com/2zxxbw6.jpg


I've had the 2.4m version of this dish for the past 18 months.

It took a while to get installation right (3 hours to assemble and 2 or 3 days of fine tuning LNB and alot of calm nerves needed).

I get All Nilesat inc Showtime 24/7 no probs (London). There is big difference between the 1.8m and 2.4 if you think about it:

1.8m has area of approx 2.54m sq
2.4m has area of approx 4.5 m sq

That is a staggering deference of 45% in area :)

You need to get the matching LNB & feedhorn. Well worth it sofar for me, not moved it since day 1, while I had to re-align my 1.2m dish twice in the past 18mnoth.

I did need to sweep the snow off it recently to get the footy back, such hard life.

PS: I just want to say I tried the 1.8m before packing and returning for the 2.4m, if you have the space , go bigger.