With the loss of Venesat I am looking at NSS 806 to replace it. The thing is that while I've installed two antennas for Ku band (Hispasat and Venesat). I have no experience with C Band. It looks daunting, I mean right off the bat I might need a bigger antenna. I have seen some info on mini BUD so I will look into repurposing the new antenna I have for Hispasat towards the NSS 806 and the old smaller antenna that I had towards Venesat to Hispasat. The LNB does look to be more expensive too.
Is CBand harder to work with than Ku?
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Is it harder to work with? I'd have to say no, with a dish that's sufficient. Meaning, a weaker Tp close to the horizon, is going to usually going to require a bigger dish. Also, being published footprint maps cannot be guaranteed 100% accurate, all one can do is "try". Generally, it requires a minimum of a 6ft dish. Some have had success with a 1.2m dish on C band, but usually is limited to the strongest of TP's. The LNBF's are a little more expensive, but not that prohibitive. What size dishes you have there?
The dishes, mounts, motors, and other parts are bigger and heavier.
I agree the adjustment is a little less critical, but care is still worth taking, for best results.
As for expensive, this LNBF for C-band, doesn't seem bad to me (I have several).
I agree the adjustment is a little less critical, but care is still worth taking, for best results.
As for expensive, this LNBF for C-band, doesn't seem bad to me (I have several).
NSS-806 is circularly polarized, so you really need a true circular feedhorn to allow the smallest possible antenna.
If you use a dielectric plate in either a C-band feedhorn or with an LNBF, it will help somewhat, but does not work as well as a true circular waveguide such as those found on the former ADL and Seavey Engineering circular feedhorns. You can use a dielectric plate type device, but with close frequency spacing on many channels of NSS-806, the lack of isolation from these devices will mean a sacrifice of one polarity over the other. (You won't get all channels; just the stronger ones, and which ones will depend upon how the polarity is skewed--favoring Left or Right hand circular. A solution is to use a larger antenna (8 or 10 feet in many cases), as a six footer will simply not pull in everything in this situation.
If you use a dielectric plate in either a C-band feedhorn or with an LNBF, it will help somewhat, but does not work as well as a true circular waveguide such as those found on the former ADL and Seavey Engineering circular feedhorns. You can use a dielectric plate type device, but with close frequency spacing on many channels of NSS-806, the lack of isolation from these devices will mean a sacrifice of one polarity over the other. (You won't get all channels; just the stronger ones, and which ones will depend upon how the polarity is skewed--favoring Left or Right hand circular. A solution is to use a larger antenna (8 or 10 feet in many cases), as a six footer will simply not pull in everything in this situation.
Thank you guys. It actually does sound a little bit harder. lol. I will try to change the Hispasat to the smaller antenna tomorrow and use the 54 inch to try to get NSS 806.
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