Feedback ( my three days test) of titanium C1 pll.
Just like I promised, here is my experience on the said Cband lnb which I was impatiently waiting for.
Without further ado, let me just dive into it.
This lnb cost 60.57 USD including shipping cost to east Africa.
I tested it using two gulf star 6ft sat dishes, one pointed at 68.5
And another pointed at 76.5, ( sorry no parasiting)
To make it fair and interesting I replaced my old 777 gulf star Cband lnb with a new same 777 gulf star lnb model. The 777 gulf star lnb is what I've been using for about 6 years and cost only 6.5 USD and available here in TZ.
How the experiment was conducted.?
The receiver used was Freesat v8 Golden, and I experimented for three days in the morning, evening and midnight( around 00.00-00.30, but based on my problem with some channels being illusive especially at evening to midnight, I focused only on evenings and midnight and I have found little to no differences with regard to signal quality on each lnb on those 3 days.
The reason for picking 68.5 and 76.5 is because at 68.4 there is an elusive channel that comes during the day especialy at dawn and dance through the day when iam at work and disappears in the evening when I'm back home. (Many of you know already what channel I'm talking about).
On the other hand there was a time when I nabbed the cartoons on 76.5 like three months ago ( please don't ask why being such a grownup me self I still watch cartoons, hehehe! of course my kid loves them too).
So because of their classy cartoons I kept on assembling and disassembling the dish in hope of getting them but I've always ended up with failure.
So iset the titanium c1 pll on one dish and gulf star 777 on another dish and interchange them in order to get the findings.
Now the results.
On 68.5.
On &#%scvary channels which comes in the morning and disapears in the evening, The titanium c1 pll hit
56-59 signal quality while the gulf star 777 got 66-69
On xony channels (these by the way have no issues, they are always there 24/7. Its just for comparison purposes)
The titanium c1 pll got 36-38 while Gulf star 777 got 43-45
On &BO channel they both got within the range of 73-77( with the final testing around 23.10 hours, they both scored 77.
On 76.5
On this sat, two tps were used to test the performance of these two lnbs.
One for Dzney channels and another for A*N channels
The resuts
On Dzney channels the titanium C1 pll Managed to get them on the range of 63-66(remember these channels disappeared like 3 months ago, and never accessed them prior this experimentation).
As the titanium c1 pll got them on the said signal quality, the gulf star could not get them on both three days' experimentation.
On A*N channels, titanium c1 pll and gulf star 777 got them on
42-43 range.
My take!
Those &%#scavery channels on 68.5 aren't weak on signal but just elusive( I may be wrong on this)
Titanium c1 pll only performs better on 76.5 but trail on 68.5
While gulfstar 777 rocks on 68.5 but looses badly on 76.5.
Final view
Despite the fact that c1 pll is 6 times higher the cost of gulf star 777, it does not perform better in every channel, nope! It only rocks on channels with weak signal but not on elusive channels like #&%scavery channels.
The gulf star 777 on the other hand when its new, it kills the elusive #&$scavery channels on 68.5. Now I have them dancing 24/7 on my 6 ft gulf star dish.
Therefore, c1 pll is not worth the cost, and gulf star 777 is one killer lnb at a fraction of 15000 Tsh, equivalent to 750 Kenya shillings or 6.5 USD.
However for me, I'm not regreting any bit folking 60.57 USD. Having those Di$ney channels again makes me forget c1 plls poor performance on 68.5.
There you have it.