Universal or Standard LNB

[Babadem]

When I setup my motorized 1.2m Geosat pro dish about six months ago, I set it up with a Universal LNB hoping to catch quite some signals below 11700 frequencies. Initially, I was able to grab a few Universal KU signals not worth mentioning east of 63.0°W. Is there hope of Universal frequencies below 11700 becoming abundant over here in not America? I know it is a pain to work on my Dish due to the height of my setup, but I have this urge to change from Universal to Standard KU band LNB. Will I be missing anything come World Cup Soccer time? What do you guys say?

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[Iceberg]

I dont even know if the North American sats can even get the low band. I have a standard LNB on my setup and other than a couple signals on 45 & 53 I'm not missing anything

[Babadem]

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[Babadem]

I dont even know if the North American sats can even get the low band. I have a standard LNB on my setup and other than a couple signals on 45 & 53 I'm not missing anything

I put in the Universal during my setup hoping for future possibility of North American satellites using low band signals, but so far it doesn't seem to be worth the trouble. Secondly, those Universal LNBs are not 22KHz friendly. Time to rethink/replace the Universal.....

[nycrich]

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The price of a Universal is almost the same with a standard lnb. In fact I use a quad universal (0.2) for $24 with excellent results on a motor from 12.5 to 129W. Currently there is a lot of sats being moved/replaced between 72W and 5W( our NA viewing horizon). Most of them are high powered Ku. Getting a universal gives you more channel option, provided you have access to the sky within that quadrant.
The Central and South American uplinkers are already advertising World Cup coverage. Good example of getting a universal would be for Hispasat 1C/D which would have coverage from Argentina, Spain, Columbia, Portugal.

[nycrich]

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I should correct the above, Hispasat 1C/D is linear. Depending on your location and spot beam area the will be lots of feeds from Intelsat satellites that use universal. Here is Ft Lauderdale, FL, I get Intelsat 903 (34.5W), Intelsat 14 (45W), Intelsat 707 (53W) requiring Universal lnb. There is also Intelsat 801 (29.5W) & Intelsat 25 (31.5W) that is about to be turned on requiring Universal.
However if you cannot get lower than 72W, it would not make a difference.