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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
Dual feed: 5W (main focus) + 13E - 90cm Triax dish
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<blockquote data-quote="Hughes" data-source="post: 897679" data-attributes="member: 189710"><p>Another mystery solved. As you all predicted the problem was at the Earth station and not the satellite! On Thursday I googled in French Fransat reception in Portugal, and then in Morocco. It soon became clear that there is indeed a strong signal this far west. So this morning I re-aligned my 60cm dish from 19E to 5W, using a sat beeper meter. This gave a very healthy scream, suggesting good signal strength. I then unscrewed the cable from the 120cm dish, connected it to the quad LNB on the small dish, went inside, and had perfect reception on the FTA channels. It was then the turn of the second feed, which goes direct to to a Fransat box. I unscrewed the F connector, and pulled the cable free through the undergrowth which forms part of the Hughes "garden" only to find a nasty kink, then a cut almost right through , and when I had chopped off the bad bits found that the whole cable had its copper foil oxidized muddy brown, and damp. I cut off a few more metres, still damp and discoloured, but I connected up anyway to another port on the LNB, and the Metronic Fransat SD box immediately updated itself and for the first time ever asked me which France 3 region I would like to make my own. I chose France 3 Montpellier! All the encrypted SD channels now work perfectly, as do the radio stations at last. They are on high frequencies and were perhaps most affected by the poor cable.</p><p>So a successful outcome, without having to take TV into garden. And the 120cm dish is now free for more fun, maybe I'll have a go at 7W!</p><p>We've been at our present address for 15 years, so some of the cables are pretty old and have suffered many years of heat, cold and rain, and were never installed very well in the first place!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hughes, post: 897679, member: 189710"] Another mystery solved. As you all predicted the problem was at the Earth station and not the satellite! On Thursday I googled in French Fransat reception in Portugal, and then in Morocco. It soon became clear that there is indeed a strong signal this far west. So this morning I re-aligned my 60cm dish from 19E to 5W, using a sat beeper meter. This gave a very healthy scream, suggesting good signal strength. I then unscrewed the cable from the 120cm dish, connected it to the quad LNB on the small dish, went inside, and had perfect reception on the FTA channels. It was then the turn of the second feed, which goes direct to to a Fransat box. I unscrewed the F connector, and pulled the cable free through the undergrowth which forms part of the Hughes "garden" only to find a nasty kink, then a cut almost right through , and when I had chopped off the bad bits found that the whole cable had its copper foil oxidized muddy brown, and damp. I cut off a few more metres, still damp and discoloured, but I connected up anyway to another port on the LNB, and the Metronic Fransat SD box immediately updated itself and for the first time ever asked me which France 3 region I would like to make my own. I chose France 3 Montpellier! All the encrypted SD channels now work perfectly, as do the radio stations at last. They are on high frequencies and were perhaps most affected by the poor cable. So a successful outcome, without having to take TV into garden. And the 120cm dish is now free for more fun, maybe I'll have a go at 7W! We've been at our present address for 15 years, so some of the cables are pretty old and have suffered many years of heat, cold and rain, and were never installed very well in the first place! [/QUOTE]
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