Hirschmann suppliers

Anyone know of another company that can source Hirschmann dishes, apart from
Alltrade.

They hardly ever have any stock, and when they do I have to keep returning
the dishes because they come with huge dents in them. Really frustrating but
I can't find another supplier. All the other usual places don't sell them.

Any ideas, or am I stuck with Alltrade?

"Carpy" wrote in message
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Anyone know of another company that can source Hirschmann dishes, apart
from
Alltrade.

They hardly ever have any stock, and when they do I have to keep returning
the dishes because they come with huge dents in them. Really frustrating
but
I can't find another supplier. All the other usual places don't sell them.

Any ideas, or am I stuck with Alltrade?



http://cpc.farnell.com/SE00265/aeria...questid=109911

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"Carpy" wrote in message
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Anyone know of another company that can source Hirschmann dishes, apart
from
Alltrade.

They hardly ever have any stock, and when they do I have to keep
returning
the dishes because they come with huge dents in them. Really frustrating
but
I can't find another supplier. All the other usual places don't sell
them.

Any ideas, or am I stuck with Alltrade?



http://cpc.farnell.com/SE00265/aeria...questid=109911


Yes, CPC have them, but not all sizes and types. And they are expensive
compared to Alltrade. I usually find that Alltrade will send what stock they
have and send the rest when they get it.

Bill

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"Carpy" wrote in message
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Anyone know of another company that can source Hirschmann dishes,
apart
from
Alltrade.

They hardly ever have any stock, and when they do I have to keep
returning
the dishes because they come with huge dents in them. Really
frustrating
but
I can't find another supplier. All the other usual places don't sell
them.

Any ideas, or am I stuck with Alltrade?



http://cpc.farnell.com/SE00265/aeria...questid=109911


Yes, CPC have them, but not all sizes and types. And they are
expensive compared to Alltrade. I usually find that Alltrade will send
what stock they have and send the rest when they get it.

Bill



Could someone please explain the benefit (?) of a £70 dish over one by
Metronic or whatever at about £25 or less. Unless you use and incredibly
expensive LNB to go with it, what's the point?


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

Could someone please explain the benefit (?) of a £70 dish over one by
Metronic or whatever at about £25 or less. Unless you use and incredibly
expensive LNB to go with it, what's the point?


I'm not sure I can justify it.

But I put up an 80cm Hirschmann dish here at Lowe Towers, and I have to say
I was deeply impressed by it's engineering. Compared to the sky dishes
I've looked at, this thing is just a beautifull piece of engineering. The
arm swings down , and locks into place with a single allen bolt. The whole
thing is clamped with a well-engineered frame utterly rigidly to the
mounting pole. The whole assembly simply exudes quality.

I just like things that are done well, rather than just done adequately.

The actual benefits over a cheaper dish would probably be:

1) Bigger dish = stronger signal, more resistant to rain-fade, particularly
in the North;

2) Better engineering: Doesn't flap about in the wind;

3) Better materials: will outlast a cheaper dish;

4) Standard collar: Accepts a regular LNB. ( vs. sky-minidish. )

5) Fast assembly: simply swing the arm down and bolt it in place with one
bolt.

6) Kudos from having the only non-sky dish in the neighbourhood, causing
uncertain glances from the neighbours, no doubt wondering if I get better
porn than them. ( I don't. )

--
Ron

"Woody" wrote in message
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Could someone please explain the benefit (?) of a £70 dish over one by
Metronic or whatever at about £25 or less. Unless you use and incredibly
expensive LNB to go with it, what's the point?

They fix together quickly.
They are more accurately made and perform significantly better.
They don't get distorted in the wind.

Believe me, we wouldn't use an expensive product if a cheap one was as good.
I've tried all sorts and thank God I've found Hirshmann.

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Woody" wrote in message
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Could someone please explain the benefit (?) of a £70 dish over one by
Metronic or whatever at about £25 or less. Unless you use and incredibly
expensive LNB to go with it, what's the point?

They fix together quickly.
They are more accurately made and perform significantly better.
They don't get distorted in the wind.

Believe me, we wouldn't use an expensive product if a cheap one was as
good. I've tried all sorts and thank God I've found Hirshmann.

Bill


Thanks for the replies. I didn't know CPC stocked them (the 75 anyway) but
the £79.99 price is way out. I'm just getting a bit fed up with Alltrade
lately but looks like I'll still have to use them. They've stopped doing the
quality non penetrating roof mount (made by Blake) and now only stock a much
cheaper version at half the price (presumably not Blake) but it's had so
much metal removed from the middle section it flexes like crazy in the wind.

It's about half the weight of the Blake one but "looks" pretty much the
same. It's crap basically, and I've told them, and they tell me in return
that they've had no other complaints about it and it's staying.

Also I use quite a lot of Vision products (mastheads / external splitters /
di & triplexers etc but they don't stock them so I have to go elsewhere.

So, I had to phone Eurosat in the end to get hold of the Blake NPRM. They
were dead keen to try and do some business saying they can give me special
prices for anything I wanted, and to ignore the "normal" trade price list
which I already have. Got some black 250m drums of WF100 for £50 and a few
other bits. They deliver too which I didn't know about. But they don't stock
Hirschmann dishes!

Oh and the Hirschmann dishes are well worth paying extra for. If you've
tried other dishes, then try a Hirschmann one, you'll know immediately why
we use them. Very fast to install but absolutely rock solid and engineered
superbly. The boxes they come in are rubbish which is probably why I have to
send 3 back to get one without dents in.

-GB-Carpy wrote:

I didn't know CPC stocked them (the 75 anyway)

Looks like not for long

"Available until stocks are exhausted"

"-GB-Carpy" wrote in message
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Oh and the Hirschmann dishes are well worth paying extra for. If you've
tried other dishes, then try a Hirschmann one, you'll know immediately why
we use them. Very fast to install but absolutely rock solid and engineered
superbly. The boxes they come in are rubbish which is probably why I have
to send 3 back to get one without dents in.

The very good polystyrene box inners were discontinued about a year ago.
Pity.

Bill

"Carpy" wrote in message
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Anyone know of another company that can source Hirschmann dishes, apart
from Alltrade.

They hardly ever have any stock, and when they do I have to keep returning
the dishes because they come with huge dents in them. Really frustrating
but I can't find another supplier. All the other usual places don't sell
them.

Any ideas, or am I stuck with Alltrade?



I bought one from this outfit:

http://www.falconsat.co.uk/dishes-br...-c-45_136.html

--
Ron