New, no-name dish needed improvement

[polgyver]

A few days ago I bought in satellite shop inexpensive no-name dish, sized 80 cm ; with LNBF it cost 45 bucks. It works OK now, but it needed some tinkering. Annotated pictures follow:

 

[Titanium]

Looks like a very basic OEM 80cm model likely manufactured by Azure Shine in Taiwan.


Brian Gohl
Titanium Satellite

 

[jorgek]

It looks a lot better than some of the flimsy same sized dishes from China that are sold in some discount sat suppliers in this area!

 

[pwrsurge]

Looks like a very basic OEM 80cm model likely manufactured by Azure Shine in Taiwan.


Brian Gohl
Titanium Satellite

Actually, this dish was manufactured Jonsa and not Azure Shrine. They are also located in Taiwan. It's a common dish here in Canada.

 

[Titanium]

You are right on this being a Jonsa dish. The dish edge design threw me as is a Azure design, but the cheap rear bracket dish mounting is definitely Jonsa. problem with most Jonsa dishes is the thin gauge reflector (I.E. Fortec Star). .6 and .7 gauge reflector thickness isn't sturdy enough in my opinion.

I remember being told about the copyright infringement lawsuit against Jonsa for using the edge design a few years ago. After that, all Azure reflectors are now stamped and labeled to enforce copyright.

 

[TRG]

Brian, will Titanium Satellite be selling any FTA dishes in the future?

 

[Titanium]

will Titanium Satellite be selling any FTA dishes

Was planning on bringing in some quality 10' prime focus mesh, but will opt out after last month's "KTI Mesh Dish Sale Fail". No plans to bring in Titanium Satellite branded 90cm, but recently discovered a potential opportunity to carry a quality, commercial, composite, <1m, offset type with matched scalar/feedhorn/LNB. Will make a decision within the next month as we negotiate.

 

[TRG]

Do you think that your composite, <1m, offset will perform similarly to a stamped 1.2 meter? I'm looking to increase my signal on 125W. I'm currently using an old 90cm 3ABN dish for the job but it wont lock a few of the feed transponders even after a good fine tune.

 

[Titanium]

Hard too say... What is the surface accuracy on the stamped 1.2M? Is the scalar matched? If the 1.2M has surface accuracy, high efficiency and illumination, the increased surface area would increase performance. A well formed 1M with matched scalar will out perform a poor design 1.2M.

I know that I didn't really answer your question. So many variables. Kinda like answering a question if a 440 will make a Ford Pinto with flat tires go faster......

A 1.2M is undersized for the link budget for some of the transponders on 125W. You may want a 1.8M to address the known signal issues hobbyists are experiewith smaller reflectors.

 

[TRG]

I was thinking about one of these http://www.satelliteav.com/p/shop/?ws_pid=616&ws_cat=470

A 1.8M ku offset would be cool but I think the wife would give me the boot if I got one.