That LNB looks like a good deal. I'd jump at it at that price.
Incidentally, Astra 2 isn't
a satellite, it's a cluster ... 3 of them at present. Eurobird is at the same location. A properly aligned Sky dish should receive a range of channels from these satellites.
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Originally Posted by Road_Hog
Lastly, the screw connecters on the cable supplied with the dish are prefitted and it would seem that you would have to drill a much larger hole for the cable than is necessary. What have others done, I'm loathed to mess with a cable and have to refit the connector but it seems silly to drill a larger hole than is necessary.
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Buy cable that doesn't have pre-fitted f-plugs ... sorry, I know that's not helpful in your current situation! TBH if you're drilling through brick you're going to need to make the hole bigger than the cable anyway. The extra couple of mm needed to get a fitted f-plug through it isn't going to make a whole lot of difference, as you will need to plug up the hole with a suitable exterior sealant either way.
If drilling through wood (which I did), I would rather cut off the f-plugs and re-fit them, and give myself less of a filling job afterwards. If they are screw-on connectors you won't even need to cut them; you may be able to carefully pull them off and if the copper braid underneath is undamaged you won't need to re-trim the cable before re-fitting the plug.