Dishes on holiday

[archive10]

Thieves beware . dam I had my eye on the TX feed arms

It just occurred to me what's been nagging me about the look of the feed-arms:
You might not be happy with the result if you just grabbed the feed arms.
To me it looks like those are 0.8 f/D dishes, so you would need to grab the reflector as well, or your LNB would be a bit far from the optimal focus point of the more common 0.6 f/D reflector...

 

[RimaNTSS]

I was on one exhibition today, that was about smart energy and unmanned aerial stuff. Spotted Ku-band LNB made in Hungary and transportable 2-axis automatically operated solar umbrella made of carbon fiber (very light and strong). I asked the man, whether it possible to put satellite dish instead of solar panels, he said, yes, of course but will be super expensive.

 

[Ratchet]

Spot the dish Clocked this while in Budapest last week. I think it's on the roof of an educational establishment on the Buda side.

 

[hairybadger]

Herceg-Novi, Montenegro a few days ago. A dish about to be used for an uplink from a music festival in the fort. I think the dish was 1.8 or 2m - for reference I am 170cm (for those of you still using old money that's er 5'7", or is when I'm wearing *very* thick socks at least). Didn't get the model number but it had Prodelin stamped on the back. It also appeared to have some form of heating element on the back.

 

[archive10]

Herceg-Novi, Montenegro a few days ago. A dish about to be used for an uplink from a music festival in the fort. I think the dish was 1.8 or 2m - for reference I am 170cm (for those of you still using old money that's er 5'7", or is when I'm wearing *very* thick socks at least). Didn't get the model number but it had Prodelin stamped on the back. It also appeared to have some form of heating element on the back.

That is a Prodelin series 1184. Veery nice dish, 1.8 meters.
(RimaNTSS has two, the lucky git!)
Never seem the monut before, though - looks quite interesting.
Wouldn't want to manage that in windy conditions though. Suppose the wind never blows down there?
Also seems to have de-icing option - but I don't reckognize it.
Wouldn't have expeted one of those as a mobile upling device - you can get motorized and automated things these days.
Of course - if you're on a shoe-string, the old stuff will give you mileage.

 

[Fisty McB]

Not exactly exotic, but I noticed these two dishes around the back entrance of William Hill bookmakers in Omagh, N Ireland.

One on the left is definitely a Channel Master with well reinforced wall bracketry. It looks like a 1.2 metre version. Making rough observations I'm reasonably certain this is looking at Astra 4A at 4.8 East.

The dish on the right seems to be a no-name dish, probably 80cm. This is looking further east in the sky compared to the CM dish. At first I thought it might be looking at Astra 2E/F/G at 28.2 East but I then thought that I'm sure the likes of William Hill wouldn't be installing such dishes especially for domestic channels and that they can't show At The Races or Racing UK in the premises legally anyway! So I'm now thinking that it's aimed at 33 East for Turf TV on Eutelsat 33B. Not able to 100% confirm it myself however - inside the bookmakers there was just one main screen showing racing with 12 other screens showing text & still images. If it is Turf TV, it might be a backup feed if the SiS feed goes down. If someone who installs satellite systems at bookmakers knows more, I'd be interested to know.

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[parkiepie420]

if I was guessing it would be for turf on 33e

 

[RimaNTSS]

Just returned from my friend's apartment where, on balcony, we installed CM120 he got couple of days ago. Of course, he washed plastic surface, brushed with metal brush the mount and sprayed it with metallic paint. Some nuts&bolts are changed to INOX. I picket up signal "impolitely" fast (installed dish and got lock immediately), so we had more time to drink beer. There is polar mount, but by now it will stay tuned to 4,8*E, if there is a need than can be motorized. Of course he need to add more weight on the ground stand.

 

[Captain Jack]

Metallic paint? Doesn't that play havoc with the signals?

 

[RimaNTSS]

Kidding ? All jobs were done under my close supervision.... metallic paint only on the mount and ground stand. Plastic just washed, no paint there ;)

 

[archive10]

Just been on a 4-day visit to South Korea. (Yes, business trip, so it may conflict with the topic title, but, hey...)

Not too many domestic dishes seem - this country is extremely well wired (many have fibre-to-the-home, most have 100 Mb/s+ download speeds.

But here is a selection of dishes from the roof of an un-named STB manufacturer. Looks like most of it is C-band stuff, although having no idea of the sat profile in Korea, I might be wrong.

Purely for entertainment, here's an updated set of pictures of the same set of dishes, only 9 months later....

What are the petalised dishes?
They seem not too flimsy ... but are they Ku or C?

 

[Archive4]

Purely for entertainment, here's an updated set of pictures of the same set of dishes, only 9 months later....

What are the petalised dishes?
They seem not too flimsy ... but are they Ku or C?

They are Kor South band, aimed North, guess the ran out of speakers!

 

[hairybadger]

Purely for entertainment, here's an updated set of pictures of the same set of dishes, only 9 months later....

I suspect that certain members' gardens look a bit like that....

 

[mikeisyou]

Dish outside the Vitality Stadium ahead of AFC Bournemouth vs Sunderland AFC, can't tell where its pointing. Probably not the best angle for a photo.

 

[RimaNTSS]

That is Gregorian type dish, media are using them for up/down links.

 

[Captain Jack]

Looks like a Fibo 120 from here

 

[Archive4]

Looks like a Fibo 120 from here

Got to respect your eyesight if you can see Bournemouth from Langford!

 

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[CROSSBONES]

ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM!

 

[wod]

Looks like a gregorian type cm 1.8m or even prodelin?