Zone 1 Satellite Dish & Single Output LNB for Sky/FreeSat/HD/SD

Fairly easy to assemble and works well

This is a zone 2 sat dish, and is quite a bit larger than the zone 1 mini-dish that it is replacing. However, reception is crystal clear on the Sony TV. Installation will take a little bit of thought if you have not put up a satellite dish before, but well within the capabilities of any competent diy'er. Good sturdy product that looks as though it will last years!

Connections are exposed to weather

Well packaged arrived quickly and well made extras included cable and connectors plus satellite finder.

Immediate afterthoughts. I ordered a twin LNB having read somewhere that it was two twin heads (=4?).. The required quad LNB was ordered and delivered 3 days later and was a simple change-over. The price difference is iro £2, not worth the risk. Assembly and cabling are pretty obvious, a degree in rocket science isn't needed. Fortunately my son-in-law has a good hammer drill and quickly produced the holes I had marked out in the East-South-East brick wall it was to be mounted on. It took us 2 hours to get it fixed and the old cables re-used for one of the destinations. Getting it in just the right position wasn't so easy. The morning after installation I ignored our previous attempts to fine tune it and decided on more drastic action. I first moved the dish horizontally 20 degrees through both sides of the desired angle, fixing it at the strongest signal produced by my SLx satellite finder. I then moved it vertically in like manner. Eventually I got quite a strong signal which I was then able to fine tune by small movements in both vertical and horizontal directions, finally completing the exercise by adjusting the LNB angle to achieve optimum performance. I was then delighted to see that on checking the reception on the TV/Humax, both strength and qualty of signal were showing 100%. I then manually tuned the Humax box to Freeview and all is now excellent. Now to tidy up the cabling!!One thing puzzled me: on one of our two Humax boxes a manual retune produced Freeview(Sat) at first attempt but on the other it produced some 420 channels commencing with channel no. 5001. I then had to auto tune it to get Freeview which in the process deleted the 5k channels. Was it a different satellite?All-in-all a rewarding exercise. The total cost including cabling (50 metres + connectors) and the replacement quad LNB has been iro £80.00. When I had our original dish installed 15 years ago it cost me £250.00.

Great price and quality item happy with order

Would have given 5 stars as it works well and easy to set up. Unfortunately mounting bracket for the dish was bent and required so careful adjustment with an adjustable wrench to lever it back into the correct position.

Replacing old satellite dish