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My reception equipment consists of a 370 cm mesh antenna (modell ST-12) from Eight Limited. I use a Chaparral Corotor as feedhorn and Chapparal KU- and C-band LNBs. My mesh is turned by a Nitec Robot Positioner (control unit EPS-103, outdoor unit EPR-203).

I use an Echostar AD 3600 with integrated Viaccess-CAM for the skew control. On the IF out of the Echostar i have connected a FortecStar Lifetime Ultra to search for feeds and the second tuner of my Arion AF-9300.

I can receive satellites from 87.5° East (Chinastar 1) to 40.5° West (NSS 806, only partially).

The main attention for the location search was the wish to receive the eastern satellites (for example to get NHK World on PAS 68.5° East).

The reception in C-band is possible without any major problems. In Ku-band i have to fight with weak signals and various signal interferences.

I can receive these signals without any interferences on my Diseqc 1.2 motorized 125cm offset antenna.

Since begin of December 2005 I can finally receive 22.5° West to 31.5° West without interferences. Before that date a tree partially disrupted the reception.

Before i got my ST-12 i had a 250cm Mesh antenna (Hybrid) in use. The thanks for this antenna goes to Alfred Olbort - Decoder und Satellitentechnik.

The 250cm mesh was turned in the beginning by an 24" actuator from Drake, which was replaced later with an 36" actuator from Jaeger.

• 125cm offset dish from Satec
• Ku-band LNB: 0.3db Inverto Pro
• Rotor: Stab HH120

This Diseqc 1.2 motorized dish is controlled with an ARION AF-9300. The dish can be rotated from 68.5° East to about 30° West. In summer the reception of Hispasat (30° West) is not possible because of trees, in winter there are no reception problems.

With this small fixed antenna pointed on Eutelsat W3A i could receive the datacasts of the provider Europe Online. For reception the Technisat Skystar 2 was used.

• 185cm Offset from Mabo
• at the moment mounted only for testing

This antenna is pointed for testing reasons to Panamsat 68° East - the real location will be chosen in spring/summer 2006.