Got my brand new CM1.2m AKA ASC Signal off set dish.

[GreenmanBelg]

Hello,
Got back from Lille in France on friday evening last with my 1.2m off dish, I am delighted with it.

Now its time to get it up on the side of the house, have to get the brackets made.

Enclosed a few pics.

Regards JD Belgium.

[CROSSBONES]

Did you order the 1224 with the link I pm`ed you?

[GreenmanBelg]

Did you order the 1224 with the link I pm`ed you?

Hi CB,
No, I was offered a CM polar mount plus actuator in exchange for a AS/EL mount and took it.
Will let you know how I get on.
Regards JD Belgium.

[wod]

that is a good deal as they are hard to find one anywhere. i had to buy the 1224 to motorise my dish

[GreenmanBelg]

that is a good deal as they are hard to find one anywhere. i had to buy the 1224 to motorise my dish

How long do you have the 1224?

Is it slow or fast or the same speed as a polar mount?

How was it to line out?

Are you happy with it.

Is it standing on its own or against a wall?

ALLSATCOM dot COM have CM Polar mounts new and reasonable prices.

Thanks JD Belgium.

[charly20]

nice JD. Glad it worked out for you.

[GreenmanBelg]

nice JD. Glad it worked out for you.

Thanks Charly,
Just need to get it up in the air and to get wall brackets.

BTW if you are ever in Rue de Brabant get yourself a BEST 0.1db LNB, they're great.

Thanks for the ALLSATCOM dot COM details.

JD Belgium..

[CROSSBONES]

get yourself a BEST 0.1db LNB, they're great.

Yes also re badged as the dark gold lnb and re priced

[GreenmanBelg]

Yes also re badged as the dark gold lnb and re priced

Got it for €15, they really are something else, a more than 60% improvement, I wonder has anyone used one? Wife really delighted with the reception, just waiting for some bad weather to really test it.

[GreenmanBelg]

Any views on these LNB's?

[pedro2000uk]

Any views on these LNB's?

When we tested Best .1 LNBfs what we noticed was that although they peaked at high-ish numbers, they fluctuated more than any others on weak satellites.

[GreenmanBelg]

When we tested Best .1 LNBfs what we noticed was that although they peaked at high-ish numbers, they fluctuated more than any others on weak satellites.

Thats very interesting, quality dose move around. I await bad weather to see are we over the threshold for MBC to stay with us in bad weather.

Will come back on that one.

[canofan]

When we tested Best .1 LNBfs what we noticed was that although they peaked at high-ish numbers, they fluctuated more than any others on weak satellites.

Could you be more clear on this Pedro?
What we found was that weaker satellite reception is improved.
You say "high-ish" numbers do you mean frequencies or signal rates?
If you meant frequencies then Nilesat and Badr operate both above 11700mhz
if you mean signal rates, then this is another matter because this has to do with local oscillator stability.
Anyway both Nilesat and Badr operate with the 27500 signal rate. Excepting the feeds of course and the Oman mux on Badr.

[pedro2000uk]

Just quality %

... the Best .1 LNBfs hit high-ish quality numbers compared to a number of well known LNBfs ... Inverto/ Invacom/ Sharp/ MTI/ Smart/ etc... but only the Best .1 showed this irregular 'wobble'. For example a Q signal of 70- 75% (quality / each) on the above LNBs all showed a steady figure only fluctuating 1-2% each... the Best wobbled 5% or more- it's peak values matching some of the above LNBfs but dropping below all the above at its lowest.

A good test would be to move the dish slightly off sat to near breakup point and see what those 'low' points do compared to the other LNBfs re picture breakup.

What that wobble is I'm not sure....amped up?

[canofan]

I have not noted these anomalies.
I shall check and will get back to you.
By the way the Best quattros have no problem at all.

[GreenmanBelg]

Bought a 2.5 meter by 75mm pole have brackets to be welded on. I also bought a meter lenght of this type pole with some metal struts to use as a ground mount to get everything set up on the ground.

Pics to follow.

[GreenmanBelg]

On wednesday aternoon I got the hardware ie the metal poles etc.

Yesterday evening a pal welded all the bits needed.

I have a ground mount to line out everything on the ground plus the wall mount which I will take a few pics of tomorow. If the weather is ok I'll line out and then attach the wall mount to the wall.

Enclosed a few pics.

Comments welcome.

[pedro2000uk]

On wednesday aternoon .................................................. ...Enclosed a few pics.

Comments welcome.

You look a lot younger than we thought... well done son... did you get that bloke to help you lift it?

[GreenmanBelg]

You look a lot younger than we thought... well done son... did you get that bloke to help you lift it?

Ye that older grumpy fellow helped but it was my know how that got it up and running.

[CROSSBONES]

Very nice dish!

No wonder the little guy is standing there, you have nicked his car play mat!

[GreenmanBelg]

Hello,
Things are all bolted together,plugged in the LNB to the receiver, connected the Jeager actuator. Got Thor got the horizontals on Nile sat but little other. Should I as I'm in Belgium use Sirius as my starting point. I've read lots so any tips welcome.

[wod]

yes, you need to align the dish on the nearest satellite to your location, what is your latitude and longitude ?

also have you set the polar mount elevation correctly with an angle finder ? this is set to your latitude figure - 90 to get the degrees setting for it

[GreenmanBelg]

Dish Setup Data
Latitude: 51.1063°
Longitude: 5.1581° Name: 5.0E Sirius 3 | Sirius 4 | Thor 2
Distance: 38483km Motor Latitude: 51.1°
Declination Angle: 7.4°
Dish Elevation: °
Elevation: 31.5°
Azimuth (true): 180.2°
Azimuth (magn.): 180.2°
LNB Skew: 0.1° Dish Skew: 90.0°

Off out with my spanners will report back.

[pedro2000uk]

You can nudge your polarmount over to 0.2e (on the dial on the polar mount) and leave it there, then look for 5e turning the whole polarmount on the pole and the dish up and down until you are in the middle of 5e and then tighten up then do the rest of the arc.

[bigtee]

Got it for €15, they really are something else, a more than 60% improvement, I wonder has anyone used one? Wife really delighted with the reception, just waiting for some bad weather to really test it.

There is an Ebay seller currently doing them for £13 delivered; just ordered one, so should know about the seller's service and performance of the LNB soon.