Opinions on Dishes?

[bloomdog]

Does anyone have any experience or comments on the geosat 90 cm (ku) dish?

How about the folowing?:
winegard 1 m
Fortec 90 cm
winegard 76cm

Thanks to all!:

 

[PSB]

Moved out of the DVB PC area to the MAIN FTA area!

The 1m Winegard (All American made) is the best of the above bunch!

 

[bloomdog]

is it worth the extra expense compared to the others?

 

[tdti1]

is it worth the extra expense compared to the others?

Well the bigger the better, if you asked about 3 dishes of the same size it would be easy to pont you to the better one, though the 1 meter dish is very good 1.2 meter would be even better.

 

[PSB]

is it worth the extra expense compared to the others?

YES!

 

[GaryPen]

Does anyone have any experience or comments on the geosat 90 cm (ku) dish?

How about the folowing?:
winegard 1 m
Fortec 90 cm
winegard 76cm

Thanks to all!:

I use the Winegard 76cm, with a cheapass Fortec LNB, and I get great signal as far east as 72w. (My TS is E9 at 121, btw). I haven't tried any further east yet. The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in my neighbor's back yard will probably kill LOS after that.

I was limited to 76cm because of esthetic concerns. If you can get the 1m Winegard, you should do it. If it's made as well as the 76cm, you'll have a well made dish, and undoubtadly great reception regardless of LNB, judging from my experience with the "tiny" 76cm.

 

[vfrjim]

I have both, 1m Winegard and the 90 cm Geosatpro and both are good dishes but if you plan on putting it on a Motor, I would opt for the 90cm. I had two Stab motors that could not move the Winegard reliably with a Invacom QPH, it seemed that the weight was a little too much for it to work at all times. I just thought it was my first motor (Stab 120) but I sent it out for repair and it came back with no issues found. So I purchased a Stab 100 and it too had the same problem, it would not always move the dish when it was in a far west(or east) position accross the arc. Now with the "lightweight" 90cm, I have no problems. This is in my experience, some others may say otherwise but....

The 1m Winegard definitely receives a signal better though, by a 1-3 db.

Jim

 

[updatelee]

Ive got the 1m w/invacom qph-031 its defn a heavy dish, I wish they made a little bigger though, like the 1.2m as I live in the gwn (great white north) I could use that little extra hehe.

twinhan 1020 was pathetic, I felt so sorry for my motor it was looking like it was working so hard, so slow, so pained, hehe.

dreambox 7000 was a little better, didnt look like it was suffering, just slow.

coolsat 5000 was much better, I felt it wasnt straining at all

fortec mercury II, wow I had no idea that dish could move so fast and so acurate, crazy !!!

 

[bloomdog]

thanks, as always!
-bloomdog