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kevalino
Joined: 09 Sep 2005
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Location: Corfu, Greece
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 7:35 am Post subject:
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I have just bought and installed a 2.4m Fortec Star petalised dish in Corfu, Greece. I brought in a local installer to get the signal for me and he told me the dish was not good enough quality to get BBC & ITV. The Sky channels I can get I could have got with just a 90cm dish for a fraction of the cost.
Has anyone had any success with these dishes?
Kev. |
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Jim Watt
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 12:36 am Post subject:
Re: Fortec Petalised Dish |
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On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 03:08:02 -0600,
kevgpmu@hotmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (kevalino) wrote:
| Quote: | I have just bought and installed a 2.4m Fortec Star petalised dish in
Corfu, Greece. I brought in a local installer to get the signal for
me and he told me the dish was not good enough quality to get BBC
& ITV. The Sky channels I can get I could have got with just a
90cm dish for a fraction of the cost.
Has anyone had any success with these dishes?
Kev.
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I had a petalised 1.6m dish and replaced it with a channelmaster
1.2 which worked a lot better.
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Jim Watt
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kevalino
Joined: 09 Sep 2005
Posts: 8
Location: Corfu, Greece
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:31 am Post subject:
re:Fortec Petalised Dish |
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Cheers, Jim,
Seems to be the consensus that the petalised dishes are not as good. Fortec assure me that these are working all over the world. I have managed to get a broken BBC2 yesterday and Channel 4 appeared yesterday. Does this mean that we are almost there with the signal?
The dish came with a 3db Pearl LNB - would a better LNB get me the signals? Don't want to waste any more cash on this.
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Jim Watt
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Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:08 am Post subject:
Re: Fortec Petalised Dish |
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:08:05 -0600,
kevgpmu@hotmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (kevalino) wrote:
| Quote: | Cheers, Jim,
Seems to be the consensus that the petalised dishes are not as good.
Fortec assure me that these are working all over the world. I have
managed to get a broken BBC2 yesterday and Channel 4 appeared
yesterday. Does this mean that we are almost there with the signal?
The dish came with a 3db Pearl LNB - would a better LNB get me the
signals? Don't want to waste any more cash on this.
Kev.
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I tend to be a bit of skeptic about .3db LNB claims.
If you have others available try them and see, as performance does
seem to vary a lot across the band(s) and different LNB's
One thing which cannot be over stated is the need to tweak the
rotation and position of the LNB to get best results.
Similarly alignment of my larger dish took a long time and some
very small adjustments to get right.
Once you start to get a signal that breaks up, make small changes
wait a minute or so and see what it brings.
I see that ITV has opened up ITV1,2,4 on a Vertical transponder
which gives an extra 3db transmit power over the Horizontal ones
on A2D so this is great news for those in marginal areas.
ITV2 used to be a bit iffy for me when it rained.
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Jim Watt
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