solomonjesus:

Good day installers
i have been trying to track nilesat with 2.4m dish in makurdi but is not working using all the right frequency when i hit green and i scan to get the channel , but is giving me a different channel i am using fuji lnb ,what could be the possible solution

enitan2002:
This is a thread for you guys that are new in the satellite world, come here with your questions and I can assure you they all will be attended to. With the help of fellow learned guys in this area we all will make you feel welcome.

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Izzo1:
please memberz i need champion tv and redlight biss keys on yamal 402 11008v5000 izzogenious@gmail.com

checkmateman:
abeg o, am new to FTA although
i've read through FAQ thread but i
will like to know which decoder
should i go for cos i just check
strong website and i thinking of srt
4915 or srt 4940 also i am not of
the perfect lnb cos am planning on
a 2.8-3 meter cos i like watching tv
and also do i need any other thing
apart from decoder, dish, lnb, rf
cable cos i believe i can do it
myself

blexxonmak:
Call me.

checkmateman:

deen2us:


Good day bro
Pls am new here and want to know more about qsat and i live in ibadan pls how can u help me. You can whatsapp me with 08033761716 so that i will call you. Thank u

enitan2002:
This is a thread for you guys that are new in the satellite world, come here with your questions and I can assure you they all will be attended to. With the help of fellow learned guys in this area we all will make you feel welcome.

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Questions Please and Lets start it rolling

Adielcy:
SELECTION OF DISH

Solid dishes offer many advantages over mesh or
perforated dishes. Solid dishes are sturdier, they
hold their shape and they do not flex in the wind.
They are more expensive, but have better value
for money. Most popular solid dish is the prime
focus one, where the feed/LNB assembly is
positioned exactly on the focal point of the dish.
Expect solid aluminium dishes to have a useful
life of 10 to 20 years. Their efficiency ranges from
60% for dishes greater than 3.0 meters to 75% for
smaller dishes. Solid segmented dishes are also
available; segmentation, however, implies
reducing shipping costs during transport from one
country to the other. Segmenting a parabolic dish
causes typically a 10%-20% reduction in efficiency
with increased side lobes. TITOSAT systems use
only solid one piece (non-segmented) dishes. We
have had satellite dishes installed over 20 years
ago which are still fully operational in a
satisfactory condition.
Mesh or perforated dishes are more flexible than
solid dishes. They move more in the wind -
causing the satellite signal to disappear - and are
less durable. Mesh dishes are much less
expensive, but need more frequent replacement.
Expect mesh or perforated dishes to have a useful
life of 3 to 5 years. Other disadvantages of mesh
or perforated dishes include poor side lobe
rejection of adjacent satellites and the rejection is
not consistent from year to year. Furthermore,
they have poorer efficiencies, typically 35%, since
they are imported segmented. This means that a
2.4 meter solid dish with 70% efficiency performs
as good as (if not better than) a 3.4 meter mesh
dish!
Offset dishes are another type of dish seen on
the market. "Offset" means the feed element is
purposely kept outside of the "main beam"
between the dish and satellite. Offset dishes
reduce terrestrial interference and improve the
beam shape slightly, but they are more complex
to set up and adjust. They have higher
efficiencies than prime-focus solid dishes,
typically around 75%. However, they are only
available in small sizes typically from 60 cm to
1.8 m.
Diameter choices come down to one statement:
"Bigger is better". Bigger dishes offer higher gain,
they have narrower beamwidths that have better
side lobe rejection of adjacent satellites and
better rejection of terrestrial interference. Of
course this terminology applies only within the
same type of dishes, i.e a 3.0 meter solid one
piece dish outperforms a 2.4 meter solid one
piece antenna. So, theoretically, a 2.4 meter solid
one piece dish should perform as good as a 3.4
meter mesh segmented dish. Whist this may be
true if the antennas were operated at C band, but
believe it or not, experience showed that a 2.4m
solid dish outperforms a 5.0m mesh dish at Ku
band.