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years ago I saw a photo of a 4meter dish in russia - not sure what they were
tuning in <g>
it might be available quite cheap - but s+h will kill you :-))))))
rgds hans
> 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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