MicroKu option

[kymics]

I'm moving into FTA at a full-bore turtle pace. My old Bell dish has now been repointed to 110/119 for getting AngelOne, NASA and GolTV. I picked up a Pansat 3500SD last night but I have to flash it back to factory before I hook it up. I'm waiting for Spring to get a proper dish/motor (crappy weather is coming soon).

My question is about StarChoice dishes. I know that the 75cm dish with the quad LNB can be used to pull in two sats 4 degrees apart, but what about its baby brother, the 60cm? The official size rating on the dish is 24", but I believe it's 30" wide x 18" tall. Any possibility that it might work for Ku video?

My long term goal is to set up low-cost stationary systems for some of my Christian friends to get IA5/AMC4 (IA5 is my TSS) and I suspect that I can find these 60cm, SC dishes for decent prices. I have seen the 75's too, but they are almost twice as much.

 

[Mr Tony]

You should be fine with a 60e. I have a DirecPC dish that is the same size (32x18) and it worked pretty good a few weekends ago with IA5, AMC4, IA8 and SBS6

I can get AMC4 (KUIL & 3ABN) with a 20" dish and a finely skewed KU LNB

 

[Larry1]

Your local StarChoice installer for your area may have a few of the older oval dishes from upgrading people to the dual dish. Should be able to get then either free or very cheap.

 

[kymics]

Thanks guys. It would be far more interesting to have two linear satellites for the winter than the three channels I'm getting on 110/119.

I'm not sure about the Starchoice mount, but perhaps I can take down my Bell dish and use the existing pole to mount a SC 60e.