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Has anyone used a satellite signal amplifer/booster like the ones on ebay (approx £4)? Is this the equivalent of using a smaller dish than would normally be required. If these are ok then being able to transport/store a smaller dish has obvious benefits.
Is this the equivalent of using a smaller dish than would normally be required.
It's too cheap to anything clever. So it will amplify the signal a bit and the noise a bit, not a whole lot of net gain, it could even make things worse.
But at the price, no harm in trying on an existing system.
Plan B is the best quality LNB you can get, now this will produce results coz it's quality engineering and it's in the right position to capture as much signal as possible.
Something similar is binoculars - ever tried a 75 x 8 and 25 x 8 side by side, the 75 will knock your eyes out compared to a 25, just the same as big dish, small dish.
The LNB can be looked at as 75mm quality glass, coated, against 75mm cheapo glass non-coated.
They only work if you have locked on an am getting a picture thats breaking up.
if you havent got a picture at all and havent locked on they wont work at all.
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I wouldn't expect them to be a jot of use in a motorhome. They're really for boosting signal strength on very long cable runs - which you won't get in a motorhome.
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Confirming with Gaspode.. If it's the in-line type amplifier then they are mainly used in long cable runs to boost signal down the cable..
Think of the dish as a bucket and the signal as water.. The bigger the bucket the more water !!!
Agree withall of the above (and love that photo Tonka). If you have a cr*p signal and amplify it you get bigger cr*p! Better to spend the money on good reciever device (analogue, digital TV or Sat), feed it down good cable to minimise interference and improve shielding in the process. The worst culprit is cheap extention cables. From experience it can wreck anything! A simple, well specified system will beat signal boosters every time!
My rule is get a good signal then fight to keep it until it gets to the display device.
OK this is getting embarrasing now. Snelly's dish isn't as big as Tonkas but he has a telly van with his name on it! I'm off to Jodrell Bank to take a picture of me next to a MASSIVE dish!
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