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Originally Posted by Kymmy
Remember as well that the further north you go the weaker the signal is. If suffering from signal attenuation due to rain (rain drops of particular sizes can block a 10Ghz sat signal) then the only way of improving that is to raise the signal level. Which means a lower noise/higher gain LNB and also a larger dish. Proper alignment might help but some areas are known for local weather that will constantly drop out the signal.
I remember during Sky's analogue days that they used to recommend an 80cm dish (over the usual 60Cm dishes) for anyone above a certain latitude. The digital dishes are also now even smaller.. Looking though at the footprint charts they do say 95% of UK mainland can get astra2 on a 50cm dish, these though are ideal scenarios 
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First thing I noticed when we went south to visit family the other week was that all the dishes are smaller. I hadn't even realised, of course, because round here everyone has the same size dish ... but our dishes are all bigger than yours.
