The tighter the mesh the better. However a C band 18 foot dish, like I used to have here in Central Mexico, even though it was terribly inefficient at Ku frequencies brought in a much stronger signal than a 1.5 meter Ku dish. The closer the mesh the more efficient, but a large C band dish even when inefficient usually provides a very strong Ku signal, much stronger than the typical smaller Ku band dish.
----- Original Message ----- From: Richard A. Keirstead To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [TVRO] Expand the view There are still some abandoned C band dishes in this area, & I have toyed with asking for them. Most are perforated metal. I seem to recall that if you can pass a pencil through the perforations, then it is not usable for Ku. Is this true? Rhetorical question: How many more dishes can I install before the YL kicks me out? Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote: > > Those Primestar dishes are great!! One was mine (I was a P* customer > & went to big dish after Direct TV cut the signal off) and the rest > I've pulled out of yards for free. Awesome for KU sats. My first > Primestar dish was parked on SBS-6 & it's not moving. > > I'll tell you what else is good. Hunt for free C band dishes when you > see a pizza pan on someone's house. I've gotten several that way all > for free. Once I got four 16 foot fiberglass dishes from an apartment > complex just for the asking. Brought tools, took it all apart & > hauled it off...... > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
