Please can anyone advise whether different dish antenna sizes are needed for different satellites? I have a 60cm dish with humax receiver. I get nilesat at the moment and wanted to know if different size dish is needed for arabsat/hotbird/etc.
Hi actually 60 cm dish is enough for nilesat, if you need Hotbird too, you still can use the same dish, just buy an LNB with stand and ask the technician to position the LNB(so called Camera) near by dish matching the frequency of Hotbird. The technician will help you to do that.
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Thanks MagicDragon. Will try 120cm.
Hotbird 120 cm
Nilesat 80 cm
I live near Silver Cafe
Dishes mounted on the compound wall, appr. 2.50 m altitude
Guys thanks for you replies.
Looks like dish size is important. If I understand correctly the geo orbit site recommends the following for qatar;
nilesat 75cm (mine is 60cm and works ok!)
arabsat 130cm
hotbird 150cm
I guess these are approximation but can anyone please confirm these figures from their own installation?
thanks again.
Hi actually 60 cm dish is enough for nilesat, if you need Hotbird too, you still can use the same dish, just buy an LNB with stand and ask the technician to position the LNB(so called Camera) near by dish matching the frequency of Hotbird. The technician will help you to do that.
You can find the "footprint" of Hotbird here:
http://www.geo-orbit.org/sizepgs/shtbrdwp.html
It shows which dish size you need in Qatar.
it depends on the strength of the sognal that any satellite is sending to this region ... if the signal is somehow weak .. u need a larger dish
for ARABSAT, NILESAT, & HOTBIRD one meter dish is good in gulf region
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