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Hi gingercol.

                  That's a good point, but it's not quite as black and white as you make it seem, as it is often difficult, to determin if you have got a clear line of sight to the satellite, as we have found on campsites with lots of tree shade, signals can pass through light leaves, and canvas even, although this does atenuate the signal, thus requiring a larger dish than first envisiged.

Just have a look at my 80cm Dish in my gallery, you can hardly see it for the trees, but we get all the channels picture perfect.

Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 12/8/2011

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As for Vin Blanc's Dish, it would be interesting to know the make and model, and weather the 40cm is the width of the Dish face or the height?.

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Hi Vin Blanc.

                    I guess with the Arcon 57cm being of a Prime Focus design, that will make alignment a tad easiar as the dish will look directly at the satellite unlike a Ofset dish. you will have to let us know your none meter method.

I do have a Solarsat dish, that uses the sun, to find your satellite of choice, it is 100% acurate, but of coarse can only be set up when the sun is out.

As for your Acron Dish, is the LNB interchangeable, or is it fully embedded into the Dish?.

Also have you any info as to who the manufacturer is, as they are making a bold claim, that it work as well as a 80cm Dish (74cm in old money!).

I would be intrested to find out what the db Gain is of the Arcon at around 11Ghz.

Of course it's "Cassegrain" design does pull in more signal than a regular PFA or Ofset Dish, Philips used to do a Ofset "Cassegrain" dish back in the 1980's but it never caught on due to using a bespoke LNB design. having said that it could easaly outperform larger Dish's than itself.

Edit = found technical info, at 37.1 db Gain, now that's pretty good if below 12Ghz and will certainley give a regular 80cm Dish a run for it's money, although with a decent 80cm Dish costing say £50 tops c/w LNB and the Arcon costing £160 it ought to, I would be worried about it getting nicked whilst I am watching the telly lol.