[mythtvnz] Does size matter?

Robin Gilks g8ecj at gilks.org
Wed Apr 16 01:07:50 BST 2008


> The only difference between dish sizes for D1 is how likely you are to
> experience rain fade.
>
> Larger dishes have a larger pickup area so you have more margin before
> signal drops too low.
>
> That being said with the torrential rain we had yesterday we still lost
> signal off D1 even on a 90cm dish :)
>

As well as rain fade, think ahead to how many feeds you will be splitting
the dish output to. One Sky box and 2 sat cards and you really should be
looking at the larger size...

-- 
Robin Gilks






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