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Sky & Freesat fringe reception
Astra 2E: Western Europe Reports
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<blockquote data-quote="joddle" data-source="post: 891167" data-attributes="member: 247983"><p>The biggest problem with trying to squeeze every last drop of signal from an underperforming dish to me it seems that from the moment you appear to achieve your goal (ie yippee - I've got a signal!!!) things start to change. The sat is always moving a tiny little bit in its fig of 8, the wind is always blowing, cloud cover and atmospherics are always changing, metal expands and contracts, and whilst none of these things really matter much on a dish which is performing well, when you are on the extreme edge of locking a signal they can all have an effect - and at that level the tiniest change can stop reception. When in this situation in the 2D days, I would often be up on my roof adjusting and tweeking and recovering a signal - only to find a few days later Iwould be repeating the whole provcess again. I did that for nearly two years swapping LNBs, fine tweeking skew and focus - what a waste of time!!! The solution was to get a better dish - note not larger - but definitly much more expensive.</p><p> </p><p>So - three things learned:</p><p> 1) If you are having to make adjustment regularly then you need a better (not necessarily larger) dish.</p><p>2) Once you have a good dish set up you can leave it alone - mine has not been adjusted for 5 years or more now</p><p>3) You gets what you pays for! - In this environment there is no substitute for good quality so just go for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joddle, post: 891167, member: 247983"] The biggest problem with trying to squeeze every last drop of signal from an underperforming dish to me it seems that from the moment you appear to achieve your goal (ie yippee - I've got a signal!!!) things start to change. The sat is always moving a tiny little bit in its fig of 8, the wind is always blowing, cloud cover and atmospherics are always changing, metal expands and contracts, and whilst none of these things really matter much on a dish which is performing well, when you are on the extreme edge of locking a signal they can all have an effect - and at that level the tiniest change can stop reception. When in this situation in the 2D days, I would often be up on my roof adjusting and tweeking and recovering a signal - only to find a few days later Iwould be repeating the whole provcess again. I did that for nearly two years swapping LNBs, fine tweeking skew and focus - what a waste of time!!! The solution was to get a better dish - note not larger - but definitly much more expensive. So - three things learned: 1) If you are having to make adjustment regularly then you need a better (not necessarily larger) dish. 2) Once you have a good dish set up you can leave it alone - mine has not been adjusted for 5 years or more now 3) You gets what you pays for! - In this environment there is no substitute for good quality so just go for it. [/QUOTE]
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