F/S: 1.8m Satellite Dish in Palmerston North, Anyone Interested?

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#71690 15-Nov-2010 16:19

Hi all,

Am selling my 1.8m Satellite Dish now the F1 season has ended.

Comes pre assembled and mounted on a stylish old wooden shipping crate.....
(Doesn't require concreting a pole in the ground etc, so easy to relocate)

Punches above its weight due to kick a$$ C band LNB which is included.
(see BSC42113K at http://jayx.co.nz/CLNB's.html)

I've had from new (just under a year) and have sunk a can of Zinc It on it too so essentially no rust.
(though Zinc spray is a darker colour than grey paint of dish itself.)

Would need to be collected from Palmerston North.

Looking for say $250 and will offer here before heading over to TradeMe.
Selling only as F1/League seasons have ended and we have now moved to a smaller town house/section.

Cheers.

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#404948 15-Nov-2010 16:34

Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly can you pick up with one of these beauties ?

Is there a website/forum somewhere I can get all the details ?

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#405026 15-Nov-2010 19:10

martyyn: Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly can you pick up with one of these beauties ?

Is there a website/forum somewhere I can get all the details ?

Check out this site, under technical articles.

http://www.jayx.co.nz/

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#405169 16-Nov-2010 08:08

I used mine to watch NRL league games off the Intelsat 5 satellite, and F1 race/qualifying coverage off the Indonesian Palapa D satellite. There are lots of channels available, it's just up to you to find the ones that suit your needs.

Overkill for the league as you can get it on a smaller dish, just means you get more signal on a larger dish is all, so not a bad thing.

As mentioned, http://www.jayx.co.nz/WhatcanIget.html has a good list to get started with.

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#405374 16-Nov-2010 15:41

Hmmmm, just what i've always wanted.....

Did you ever have a motor attached to this, or did you just move it yourself?

Was the mounting strong enough to keep it from getting blown over?

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#405688 17-Nov-2010 08:44

allstarnz: Hmmmm, just what i've always wanted.....

Well then your dreams could easily come true then

allstarnz:
Did you ever have a motor attached to this, or did you just move it yourself?

No I haven't had a motor attached as I was after a dirt cheap alternative to SKY TV, so I just moved it myself.
Used www.dishpointer.com, put in my address and the satellite I was after.
Used the map to identify some point to align with in my neighbourhood and went from there.

allstarnz: Was the mounting strong enough to keep it from getting blown over?

Certainly was. It has never fallen over or even come close to this. You are welcome to the concrete blocks I have sitting on the shipping pallet if you want, adds to the class.

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#405850 17-Nov-2010 12:30

one more question (i'm full of them).

You said you can get Palapa D, and IS5. Did you have any luck getting Asiasat 3S and Asiasat 5? I'm guessing this dish might be a bit on the small side for them.

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#405889 17-Nov-2010 13:40

allstarnz: one more question (i'm full of them).

No worries, I try to help out here when I can, hoping what goes around comes around when I need a bit of guidance!

allstarnz: Did you have any luck getting Asiasat 3S and Asiasat 5? I'm guessing this dish might be a bit on the small side for them.

Lyngsat pages show you all the transponder frequencies and roughly all the channels that are on them.
The colour codes are at the bottom and you're looking for FTA free to air digital channels.

http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/asia.html is your first point of call normally and then onto:
http://www.lyngsat.com/asia3s.html
http://www.lyngsat.com/asia5.html

However in this case these haven't got the the beam coverage maps for the sats you are interested in sorry.
Beam coverage maps are here:
http://www.asiasat.com/asiasat/contentView.php?section=3&lang=0
But they don't show EIRP values, strength at the various locations.

Basically you are after a value of roughly 35 dBW or higher at your location in NZ with this size dish. The more sensitve/top quality LNB gives you a bit of margin but roughly this is not a bad figure to work with.

C band

EIRP (dBW)         Size(cm)

>42                         80

42                           80-100

41                           90-115

40                           100-125

39                           115-145

38                           125-160

37                           145-180

36                           160-200

35                           180-225

An example of the type of lyngsat map I mean is this one for Intelsat 5
(which has BBC World/Australian Network on it.)
See over NZ this has a value of roughly 40.6, so looking at the chart above you could get this on a 1.2m dish ok.

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#405896 17-Nov-2010 13:52

Looking at these coverage maps that I was able to find, it looks very unlikely that you could receive these.
http://www.satbeams.com/footprints?beam=5236

http://www.satbeams.com/footprints?beam=6114

These pages are indicating a 2.9m to 3.7m so that starts getting into some serious realestate surface area and cost wise. Personally this was just outside my brief to get the content I was interested in for a cheap price as a viable alternative to SKY TV.

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#405906 17-Nov-2010 14:25

thanks. I was just wondering if you'd tried.... As3 and As5 have some good uplinks of stuff, as well as DW. I'm pretty sure it'd be too small to get them.

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#405916 17-Nov-2010 14:38

allstarnz: thanks. I was just wondering if you'd tried....

No I haven't sorry, wasn't interested in those ones.

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#409575 25-Nov-2010 18:14

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#409634 25-Nov-2010 20:54

Jaxson: I used mine to watch NRL league games off the Intelsat 5 satellite, and F1 race/qualifying coverage off the Indonesian Palapa D satellite. There are lots of channels available, it's just up to you to find the ones that suit your needs.

I assume the normal sky dish doesn't have enough guts to get the satellite with NRL? The only reason I have Sky is for the league. Is the signal DVB-S or DVB-S2?

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#409771 26-Nov-2010 09:29

No the standard 65cm sky dish is not quite up to it. Everything I used this dish for was standard DVB-S. I think from memory there were no S2 broadcasts I came across, even the SBS HD is standard DVB-S I think, someone will correct me if I'm wrong on that.

It's covered on Australian network via Intelsat 5 and you need a 90cm or larger sat dish to receive that reliably. (Even at 90cm (typically an offset dish) you need 'scalar rings' around the lnb to catch every last bit of signal possible).

1.2m is better and at 1.8m you are sweet as.

Remember Australian Network shows a lot of programs but is only one channel so sometimes you may not get the Warriors live or at all one week. Typically though it's been really good for us. 4:3 aspect ratio though from memory, but yeah, the price is right.