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The Available Options of Motorizing a Satellite Dish

For many of us, a way to receive TV is with satellites. There exists viewing cards & subscriptions for packages from from around the globe, you possibly have one as well and getting channels through a satellite dish. One interesting thing is that if you tried rotating your dish it might be able to view channels from other satellites. As we know, the sky is packed with satellites and FTA (Free To Air) channels which most likely does not need a huge dish. To view FTA you don’t need a subscription. The most viewed FTA satellites within Europe are Hotbird and Astra, these carries a large amount of FTA channels in different languages, such as Italian, Spanish and Russian. If you are outside Europe, there are many other satellites with Free To Air channels. Believe me there are a lot of channels in the sky. The way to watch multiple satellites is by motorizing the dish. With motorizing a dish, you will gain the freedom of having more than one satellites.

36v H to H motors and actuators are stronger, can cope with higher wind loads and move larger dishes and these use their own power source via a receivers built-in 36v positioner. However most receivers don’t have a built-in positioner but don’t worry, in this case you could use a piece of hardware like the V-Box.

Prior to mounting, its a good move to plan where to place the dish so fences and other objects are not obstructing view to the satellites you want to watch. This can often cause complications with low elevation satellites. Limit here is the size of dish. Visit Lyngsat to find out which size dish is recommended from your location for any selected satellite. So the bigger dish you have, the more channels you can scan in. There is also the option of subscribing to packages from other satellites. Remember lots of channels have English audio tracks. There are choices like Sport, Cartoon and Music channels. Like if you are living in Norway you don’t have to select only Viasat and Canal Digital.

I should mention there exists different types of bands, these are working in their own frequencies. C-Band is low band and most of the time requires huge dishes. Ku-Band which is the most common, works in the higher frequencies. Both these bands have Vertical and Horizontal (Linear), Left and Right (Circular) polarization. A LNB is either Linear or Circular, you could still use both on the dish if you mount the two LNB’s next to each other. When you do this you must use a 2/1 DiSEqC switch, this will automatically tell the receiver what LNB to select for the type of signal. There are endless combination’s of dishes, motors and satellite receivers but its not as confusing as you may think. The horizon is containing loads of satellites and channels which anyone can watch using equipment that’s available on the market. Discover information covering satellite TV. Have fun.