zorbua
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- My Satellite Setup
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Dreambox 8000 HD
Dreambox 800se
Dreambox 900UHD
Clark Tech 5000 HD
Numerous other receivers (Retired)
Dish Gibertini 1.5 M
Dishes Gibertini 1.2 x2
Dish Gibertini 1 M
- My Location
- Malta
I Finally managed to complete this today.
I do not think that I fully appreciated the precision involved and required. I guess I sort of hoped to move the dish around in the general direction and get lucky but that ended up being a wasted day.
With the help of - http://www.dishpointer.com/ - I was able to obtain the correct Elevation for the satellite from my location. I then downloaded an app called ' Level ' from the app store to set the inclination correctly. Once the correct inclination was set I was then able to locate the Sat with relative ease.
Thanks again for your help
Looking at the footprint I can see why I only get it now and then, not a bad catch .
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This map is not accurate:
I live on Portugal and I get almost all frequencys from this high beam.
Struggling to get any signal at all today. Ive been out tweaking the dish with my meter but just cant find a thing.
There is a large band of heavy rain moving across the Midlands today would that be the reason? If so does that mean every time it rains you might lose your signal?
Struggling to get any signal at all today. Ive been out tweaking the dish with my meter but just cant find a thing.
There is a large band of heavy rain moving across the Midlands today would that be the reason? If so does that mean every time it rains you might lose your signal?
What I have done in the past on a bird that's not drifting too far, like this one, is to stack lnb's on top of each other ;).
Its a low cost & somewhat problematical botch job rather than installing proper inclined satellite tracking on your dish.I have no idea what that means, but I would like to give it a try. Can you explain or is there a thread to discuss?
Thanks