Last week I finally got around to putting my 'big dish' to use! It's a 2.4M solid 'petal' dish on pole mount. The pole goes down 1.8M underground and is held in place by approx 0.75 cubic meters of concrete. I now have it aimed at Intelsat 5 and am picking up BBC World News Asia and ABC Australia Network FTA (free to air) television channels off C-Band.
C-Band operates in approx the 3Ghz-4Ghz downlink frequency range, much lower frequency than the more common "Ku" band (11-13Ghz) used on smaller dishes.
After having the dish up for over a year it's nice to finally be using it for something useful. We now have a total of 21 free to air channels on our telly. If only I had time to watch them all ;-)
Here is a picture of the dish all aimed up and in operation:
