New Dish Advice

[lammy1961]

I'm going to upgrade my 85cm dish to a 1m, and I'm after a bit of advice either to go with a Gibertini or Orbital......The Sat Engineer who's going to fit it says he wouldent go any bigger than 1m Dish because of my Motor (so no 1.1m Triax replies)
So all I'm after is a bit of 1m Dish advice.

Thanks in advance.

[jjp2701]

m8 you can go up to 1.2m dish, any motor would handle a 1.2m, go for a orbital, cheap dishes but good results, gilbertini are expensive, i have looked all over the show for months for a gilbertini, so now i have a 1m orbital dish,

[silverfox0786]

orbitals are the best at the moment for the price better than triax

and the site sponsor has a good price too on them i got orbitals myself from the sponsor

[lammy1961]

Quick replies.....Thanks.
Looks like I'll be going for the Orbital.

Cheers.

[bigup7]

i would personally go for Gibertini over Orbital, i think they are a better dish quality wise.

also the TD110 measures up as a 1m anyway so model number is a bit misleading on the triax

either way make sure you use some T&K mounts if your wall mounting it :)

[silverfox0786]

i would personally go for Gibertini over Orbital, i think they are a better dish quality wise.

also the TD110 measures up as a 1m anyway so model number is a bit misleading on the triax

either way make sure you use some T&K mounts if your wall mounting it :)

for the price against quality ratio the orbital is a brilliant dish and will suffice the gibertinis are hard to get and a little over priced
dont get me wrong very good dishes
but for the availability price and quality the orbital is a better option

[lammy1961]

Te Sat Engineer quoted me: 1M Gibertini = £70, T&K Mounts with pole £25, labour £70.
Total = £175 all in.
Is that a good price ?
He's normally spot on.

[silverfox0786]

is the labour for setting up your motorised dish

if so then yes thats fine

[lammy1961]

Yes......Labour is for fitting new bracket, fitting new dish and setting up motor.

[silverfox0786]

Thats fine then i used to charge £150 when i uses to install just pure labour and other companies i seen charge £99 plus so £70 is ok for a motor setup

[bigup7]

Te Sat Engineer quoted me: 1M Gibertini = £70, T&K Mounts with pole £25, labour £70.
Total = £175 all in.
Is that a good price ?
He's normally spot on.

sounds like a good quality setup that :)

[allyb]

Sorry to jump on the thread, but where do you find a "sat guy" from. the ones i spoke to when i ended up with this dish seemed to be clueless about anything other than a motorised setup telling me multisat fixed could not be done! Did not know how to setup anything other than standard astra or motorised. my only choices, so i ended up going motorised. Not sure i would have chosen motor if i had the option of multisat fixed.

[Larry-G]

Sorry to jump on the thread, but where do you find a "sat guy" from. the ones i spoke to when i ended up with this dish seemed to be clueless about anything other than a motorised setup telling me multisat fixed could not be done! Did not know how to setup anything other than standard astra or motorised. my only choices, so i ended up going motorised. Not sure i would have chosen motor if i had the option of multisat fixed.

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[fevgatos]

Sorry to jump on the thread, but where do you find a "sat guy" from. the ones i spoke to when i ended up with this dish seemed to be clueless about anything other than a motorised setup telling me multisat fixed could not be done! Did not know how to setup anything other than standard astra or motorised. my only choices, so i ended up going motorised. Not sure i would have chosen motor if i had the option of multisat fixed.

we have sponsor, sorry I never read the rules.