Combination of Sats to receive atmost no. of free channels

[infotechie2001]

I'm in idea to go for fta dish and together i want to cover atmost number of channels from Insat 4B, NSS6, Insat 2E/4A, Asiasat 3s etc.. Right now i have a 60cm dish-receiver meant for DD D+. So what all it needs (extra dish, its size, lnbs, its type, switches etc) further to meet the above requirement. ppl already enjoying with such setup pl guide.

[quickboy]

(02-08-2010 08:23 PM)infotechie2001 Wrote:  I'm in idea to go for fta dish and together i want to cover atmost number of channels from Insat 4B, NSS6, Insat 2E/4A, Asiasat 3s etc.. Right now i have a 60cm dish-receiver meant for DD D+. So what all it needs (extra dish, its size, lnbs, its type, switches etc) further to meet the above requirement. ppl already enjoying with such setup pl guide.

Get a six feet c-band dish, and a few c-band lnbfs, you get approximately about 300-400 channels depencing on your luck and location,

Check out this post,
http://www.saveondish.com/forum/channels...#pid152383

[SummerIndia]

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Get a six feet c-band dish, and a few c-band lnbfs, you get approximately about 300-400 channels depencing on your luck and location,

Check out this post,
http://www.saveondish.com/forum/channels...#pid152383
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ok i get the above particulars. But is there any standard method for dish alignment and tunning. since few ppl say satellite meters are really waste for the job. (and what dishmen in my location do is feed a channel frequency already to the receiver and take it to the roof top, then connect it to the lnb and move the dish to check the singal strength of that particular channel in the receiver. hectic!)

[quickboy]

(02-14-2010 07:36 PM)SummerIndia Wrote:  ok i get the above particulars. But is there any standard method for dish alignment and tunning. since few ppl say satellite meters are really waste for the job. (and what dishmen in my location do is feed a channel frequency already to the receiver and take it to the roof top, then connect it to the lnb and move the dish to check the singal strength of that particular channel in the receiver. hectic!)

The Rs. 250/- satellite meters are useful for Ku-Band only , as they cannot handle c-band lnbfs which are more than 65DB gain , At the most they can show a gain of say 45dbw, So feeding the receiver and taking it to rooftop is the practical method, Also a small tv say for about 500-750 will be your freind here, Ie for budget guys, If you are looking for an all-in-one quality solution you need a bird-dog or Trimax meter, They show you everything including the satellite your dish is aimed, They can even read the satellite beacon , They will also power your lnbf without any reciever , Heres an example from Trimax
http://www.trimaxmeters.com/sm3500.html

Also theres the satcatcher, Got an offer of Rs.16000/- in Chennai
http://www.satshop.co.uk/section64/produ...v-mk3.html

If you can spend about Rs.9000 -12000 on a meter , Go for one of these, Ask your satellite store in local electronics market

[SummerIndia]

But the receiver is not allowing to feed the frequency details using menu > add new program. on pressing ok, prompts a msg 'no program available' and doesnt saves the freq details. what exactly it need to be done?

[quickboy]

(02-16-2010 07:54 PM)SummerIndia Wrote:  But the receiver is not allowing to feed the frequency details using menu > add new program. on pressing ok, prompts a msg 'no program available' and doesnt saves the freq details. what exactly it need to be done?

What receiver is that?

[SummerIndia]

ok, got it now. but pl tell the minimum dish size required for asiasat3s and insat2e. as i have 2 60cm dishes, i want to make use of them and have no plan to go for a 6ft dish now. let me experiment with this for sometime. few say the signal strength of asiasat3s on 60cm will be low. soo wats min. dish sz for above sats.

[quickboy]

Ok since you don't own a dth right now, You will be viewing free channels only, 60 cms is defnitely small for AS-3 ku-band and even ABs-1 ku-band, They are all in 38-40dbw range, Theres nothing on INSAT-2E in ku-band, You can get a few MANA-TV channels on Insat-3b ie all

Try Insat-4b , I mean the DD-DIrect+ and edusat and Insat-3CR,and ABS-1, you can direct one dish to 93.5 , DD-Direct+, and another to 74 degree east, one dish is enough for 74 & 75 , Please note the Edusat channels wont come in an autoscan, since they have symbol rates less than 2000, Most receivers are designed to scan from 2000 up only