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Has anyone used a 1.8 meter dish? The DB gain goes up huge.
-Stuart
hans esser wrote:
> > Has anyone that is getting data through a satellite feed ever
> > experimented with using a larger dish than the one that is usually sent
> > with their system originally, that is, a 1 meter dish?
>
> I have 1.2 meters
>
> > Would an increase
> > in DB gain help increase the tick data?
>
> only under special weather conditions
>
> > Since cable feeds are sent from
> > the local cable companies that use the largest size dishes, would it be
> > reasonable to say that one should see the largest tick data from those
> > feeds, or do they also have a bandwidth problem, since they are assigned a
> > side band? I am considering gong to a larger dish to help improve signal
> > during rain fade, storms, etc.
>
> currently we have a very bad storm here and I have NO data - with some blips in
> between (happens 2x a year <g>) - a smaller dish MIGHT not have the blips of
> data in between - however under normal weather condition - its more a DBC
> dropping tick due to bandwith problem than your dish
>
> rgds hans
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