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We’ve got quite a few new products coming to FridgeFTA for testing and possibly offering, none excites me more than this one…

Introducing the DMS Avenger PLL321-S2 Ku LNBF.

This very possibly could be the best Ku LNBF on the market.

Let’s go over LNBs / LNBFs….

Us Americans and Canadians have been stuck for a long time. We want the best performace as cheap as China can give it to us. For the money we can do really good. OpenBox S10, Avenger 0.1dB LNBF, Spitfire Elite and the like. These are great, inexpensive products.

In order to take things to the next level you are looking at commercial grade equipment. I won’t even get into commercial receivers starting at $2,000. Companies that have those also buy our S10’s if that says anything. For us hobby guys with a budget there is only a couple things we can do: bigger dish (brute force) or LNB/LNBF.

I hit the ceiling myself with the C-band small dish project. I supertuned everything so precise that the only way to improve would be a $200+ commercial high stability LNB or bigger dish. Nothing else to be done to improve further.

Unfortunately the new DMS LNBF won’t help for C-band small dish since it is Ku, but it might just open a whole new world for weak signal DVB-S2. The principle is exactly the same: once you tweak on your dish and have a good STB, all you can do is improve stability.

Simply put, we are trying for signals that are received at headends with 1.8m or bigger dishes. Many S2 signals are weak, narrow bandwidth, and high FEC. Without going to a bigger dish we just can’t get these reliably. About the only way to improve reception other than a bigger dish is to get a low drift, low noise high stability commercial LNBF. When you are trying for a needle in a haystack you don’t use a bulldozer, you go by hand with a magnet. Same with LNBF stability.

The new PLL321-S2 has a stability of 300kHz, which is a range you see with $200+ commercial LNBFs. Compare this to a typical 2000KHz stability and you see the difference between “hand sort” and a bulldozer.

I don’t expect this new LNBF to make much if any difference on stout signals, but I am thinking it will make a heck of a difference on harder to get stuff like the NBC-S2 on AMC1/103W.

The only disadvantage I see here is for us guys using DiseqC 1.2 manual positioning with ALi based STBs such as Traxis and the OpenBox S9, S10 and S12 line. Since this is a universal LNBF it will have the same manual positioning meter issue on horizontal TPs that the ALi based boxes have. Annoying, but once setup makes no difference.

Because MrTim and DMSI have came thru above and beyond our expectations in the past with products such as the original Avenger, I am offering the PLL321-S2 now for pre-order before we test it. Price is discounted for the pre-order guys and you will get the first of the new LNBF. Shipping is estimated as Monday, December 12. Demand will certainly be crazy, so earlier orders ship and process first.

I will be testing this LNBF over the weekend. Once testing is complete the pre-order discount goes away. Reserve one now before prices and demand go up!

More information, picture, specs and ordering are at the following link:

Note: FridgeVIPs don’t order below, you’ll get discount pricing in the VIP area.

http://store.fridgefta.info/?page_id=1490