SkyStar 2 TV PCI + Multytenne - Is it really as good as it sounds?

[Gav]

http://www.technisat.com/en/produkte...9,100&pid=1677

Hi again, Just been looking on the technisat site and found this rather amazing sounding dish.

'There is no need to rotate the antenna for this. Once the antenna has been adjusted to the ASTRA 19,2° East position, it will additionally receive the digital radio and television programmes broadcast on the positions EUTELSAT 13° East, ASTRA 23,5° East and Eurobird-ASTRA 28,5° East. That means you can receive an incredible choice of national and international programmes.'

Has anyone ever heard of this/used this? For a newbie like me, this could be the ultimate solution! I personally don't understand how it could access 13, 19.2, 23.5 and 28.5 East without repositioning.

Thoughs?

EDIT: With a price of £110 for the 'Super Dish' and the Card, surely this is the ultimate setup if it does indeed work!

[Jimdefruit]

It looks very good if it works. It will obviously depend on where you are located.

Be our test agent Gav. Let us know if it works. Certainly the SS2 bit of the package works ok.

[Analoguesat]

Remember the dish is way too small in the UK to get Astra 3A stuff, although its should work with Astra 1D.

[Stv]

A friend kindly looked over this for me: _http://www.sat4all.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1060836&an=0&page=0

He says towards the end "some are complaining that bad weather influences the signal quite badly"

So I guess that if it doesn't work too well in Germany then it stands less chance here. Please correct me if I'm wrong

There were also some performance tests, but I'm not sure whether they are useful to us...

LNB 1 19,2 graden oost Astra 1
transponder polarisatie sr sterkte kwaliteit pakket
12,575 H 22,000 99% 67% Canal Digitaal Nederland
10,788 V 22,000 93% 76% Digital Plus España
11,836 H 27,500 93% 67% ARD Digital Deutschland
11,953 H 27,500 93% 64% ZDF Vision Deutschland
12,692 H 22,000 95% 64% ORF Digital Österreich

LNB 2 13,0 graden oost Hotbird
transponder polarisatie sr sterkte kwaliteit pakket
10,758 V 27,500 93% 70% TPS France
11,662 V 27,500 91% 40% Mulitvision France
12,399 H 27,500 93% 37% SSR/SRG Suisse
11,766 V 27,500 89% 43% RAI Italia

LNB 3 23,5 graden oost Astra 3
transponder polarisatie sr sterkte kwaliteit pakket
11,475 V 27,500 96% 70% Première International
12,032 H 27,500 93% 61% testcard
12,525 V 27,500 97% 67% CT Ceskà
12,565 H 27,500 99% 73% STV Slovakia

LNB 4 28,2 graden oost Astra 2
transponder polarisatie sr sterkte kwaliteit pakket
10,773 H 22,000 94% 67% BBC United Kingdom
10,758 V 22,000 93% 58% ITV United Kingdom
11,934 V 27,500 92% 55% Sky United Kingdom
12,168 V 27,500 93% 64% Channel 4 United Kingdom

LNB 4 28,5 graden oost Eurobird
transponder polarisatie sr sterkte kwaliteit pakket
11,222 V 27,500 93% 55% Vectone India
11,343 V 27,500 94% 37% Sky United Kingdom

transponder = transponder
polarisatie = polarisation
sr = ?
sterkte = strength
kwaliteit = quality
pakket = channel (I guess)
graden = degrees
oost = east

[Analoguesat]

Well you can forget Astra 3A for certain on that tiddly little dish in the UK. The downlink powers for Astra 1 and Hotbird are similar in the UK as in Germany so it should work reasonably well.

[BGonaSTICK]

There's a review of this dish/multi-LNB in January's Wotsat.

It basically reached the same conclusions as Analoguesat has.