Flat Panel Antenna for C-band TVRO? 26
Anonymous Coward asks: "Does Slashdot know of any anyone who makes a flat panel antenna for C-band Satellite TV? The only makers of commercial flat panel antennas that I'm aware of is this one, but it's only KU-band."
Huge? (Score:3)
Re:Huge? (Score:4, Informative)
hmm (Score:5, Funny)
Suggestion (Score:3, Funny)
One site (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.skygate.bg/skygate/Acivities/SamplePro
Re:One site (Score:1)
Re:One site (Score:3, Interesting)
Build your own (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Build your own (Score:1, Informative)
This antenna with the lens and feed horn together aren't exactly flat and still take up the same or more space as a dish. I'm still looking for a true flat panel C-band antenna, mostly for watching NASA and TechTV.
Re:Build your own (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Build your own (Score:2)
Here is how it works. The simplest model is square and the easiest to describe. The same rules apply to eliptical and circurlar. The center of two sides are the conductors. Believe me on that one. Now to insulate them from each other.. Take the
Re:Build your own (Score:2)
ok (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:ok (Score:1)
Re:ok (Score:2)
Re:ok (Score:5, Informative)
C-Band signals with a good antenna look better than DSS because the signals are analog and operate on lower frequencies than the DSS Stuff. They suffer less from rain fade than the higher frequencies, and compression artifacts from the digital modes. My parents have a big dish I helped install in the late 80's. They retired to a rural area beyond the reach of cable and the nearest TV station was 75 miles away, so the big dish was really their only option then. It still looks great today, though if they had to start over from scratch they would opt for the small dish. They use a small dish for their motorhome when they travel, and a small dish [directway.com] for broadband internet.
That being said, the big dish's main drawbacks are its size, with 6 footers being the minimum to get a decent signal, and the fact that there are only 24 transponders on each satellite. This means that unless you want to install multiple dishes like the cable companies, you need a way to steer the dish, which adds a layer of complexity to the operation and maintenance of the dish.
Re:ok (Score:1, Interesting)
C Band is now mostly digital also. A couple of different formats which are really just variations of the same thing. DVB MPEG2 which comforms to the MPEG standard, and digicypher which is a variation on MPEG2 by Motorola.
There continue to be some analog feeds also which are either unscrambled or available by subscription with videocipher II. Most of the digicipher channels can be subscribed to, some of the DVB channels can also be subscribed to. You need a different rec
Re:ok (Score:1)
Re:Don't overlook Radio (Score:2)
Re:Wiki-pedia (Score:1)
Wikipedia is a good resource for all types of information, even on C-Band/TVRO.
Re:ok (Score:3, Informative)
Another manufacturer to try for flat-panel C-Band (Score:1)