Is this motorised set up ok?

anorak_ian · Oct 24th 2015

Hi, I'm new here and to satellite, and I need advice before buying.
I'm thinking of buying a motorised dish (nice and cheap) as I would like to pick up a few other satellites, and I wondered if this was any good:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221690730559?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

The satellites amoung others that I want to receive are Astra 2f (Sky 28.2e), Arabsat (26e) as they have free Fox films, Eutelsat / Hotbird (13e) more free films etc.
I take it the system above is ok for this?

Oh my receiver is an Openbox V8S.

Thanks for your advice.

**joeuser** · Oct 25th 2015

Not sure about that setup, and not sure of your location, but for 26e you probably need at least a 1.2 meter dish and probably a better LNB than provided in that package...

**THE FUGITIVE** · Oct 25th 2015

Agree totally with joeuser it is though a very good price although it does not state the GAIN of the dish it is still cheap

**bodiddly** · Oct 25th 2015

I've used that shop before and they are reliable. The price is very good, I think I paid that for the supreme dark motor when they came out. I would, however, get the biggest dish you can afford. I use a gibertini 1.25m. The bigger the dish, the more you gain.

bo.

anorak_ian · Oct 30th 2015

Thank you for your help.

How do we determine what is a good lnb?
The one that comes with the system is 0.1db.
I have three lnb's:
Ross ektk110 gain 65 db, noise 0.3 db
Sky mk4l./ sky4lp1102d00014071
The other is a sky lnb but I can't see what it is.

I take it that they're junk, and anything to do with sky is pretty much useless?

**THE FUGITIVE** · Oct 30th 2015

LNB stands for low noise blocker which means the lower the DB the better and 0.1 is very good so working on that your 0.3db is not bad but obviously not as good as a 0.1db

**canthackit** · Oct 30th 2015

am i missing something here.
the Ad says full motor setup but all that's advertised is an 85 cm dish and the wall mount, a full motor setup to me is with a positioner and jack or a diseqc rotor.

so please tell me where i'm reading it wrong.

regards: canthackit

**codar** · Oct 30th 2015

Supreme dark motor is included.

Is this motorised set up ok?

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