Hey guys... HOpe someone can help. I am in need of a 12' solid 2 degree compliant dish? Clear Channel would like to make about 2000 bucks off of us... but that's not gonna happen. Any suggestions? Or do any of you have any dishes you would like to pass along? Station is in North Mississippi, we have a starguide III on the way, but no dish.....
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www.radio-classifieds.com would be a good palce to put something up.
I must say tho, you posted the same exact thing on 3 different boards. Personally, I don't mind but one of the rules of radio -info forbids such cross posting.
*giggles* i know of a satelitte dish sitting in Marks, MS that hasn't been used in years but it's not in the worlds best shape. i don't know if the owner would let you have it or not...
I must say tho, you posted the same exact thing on 3 different boards. Personally, I don't mind but one of the rules of radio -info forbids such cross posting.
*giggles* i know of a satelitte dish sitting in Marks, MS that hasn't been used in years but it's not in the worlds best shape. i don't know if the owner would let you have it or not...
I get all of our network satellites from SEG Electronics out of Saint Louis.
http://www.sateng.com/tcn/
They might be able to help you.
http://www.sateng.com/tcn/
They might be able to help you.
Are you sure you need a solid dish? If you've got a Starguide on the way (I think I saw elsewhere) a 12 foot mesh would be way more than enough. I think there may be a 12 foot mesh nearby you could pick up reasonably.
The Premiere guys told me solid... but if mesh works it works... I figure there are plenty of these sats just littering north mississippi looking for a good home.. I just need to find one for my roof....
NE is right, a 12 or even 10' mesh dish will work.
Of course, that all depends on what the definition of "work" is.
Premiere / CC is right in that the only way to guarantee that your signal will be rainfade and interference-free is to make it 12' (which makes the beam narrow enough that if someone lights up a fat carrier on a satellite 2 degrees away from you, you won't see it), and solid (which assures that the shape of the reflector is correct enough to insure proper gain and beam shape). The reason you want antenna gain is to have enough excess receptivity to handle signal loss when it rains - this is called fade margin.
So, if you're in a jam, it's a clear day and you have to have something, most any 10' dish will work. What will bite you by using a less-than perfect dish is the dropouts you'll get from weather and interference.
Do spend the money on a top-quality phase-locked LNB, Starguide won't work without it. DawnSat, Clear Channel or other sat vendors have them.
You mentioned roof-mounting. Although mesh dishes tend to be lighter, thus requiring a smaller mount, the disadvantage is that they flop around in the wind, i.e. give you more chance of signal errors. You probably already know this, but above a relatively low wind speed, a mesh dish looks solid in terms of wind load, and thus has no survivability advantage.
Good luck.
Of course, that all depends on what the definition of "work" is.
Premiere / CC is right in that the only way to guarantee that your signal will be rainfade and interference-free is to make it 12' (which makes the beam narrow enough that if someone lights up a fat carrier on a satellite 2 degrees away from you, you won't see it), and solid (which assures that the shape of the reflector is correct enough to insure proper gain and beam shape). The reason you want antenna gain is to have enough excess receptivity to handle signal loss when it rains - this is called fade margin.
So, if you're in a jam, it's a clear day and you have to have something, most any 10' dish will work. What will bite you by using a less-than perfect dish is the dropouts you'll get from weather and interference.
Do spend the money on a top-quality phase-locked LNB, Starguide won't work without it. DawnSat, Clear Channel or other sat vendors have them.
You mentioned roof-mounting. Although mesh dishes tend to be lighter, thus requiring a smaller mount, the disadvantage is that they flop around in the wind, i.e. give you more chance of signal errors. You probably already know this, but above a relatively low wind speed, a mesh dish looks solid in terms of wind load, and thus has no survivability advantage.
Good luck.
Forgot to mention earlier, but another sat dish vendor is Perfect Ten (Perfectten?) out of Arkansas.
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