Install happening this week! :)

[skomedal]

I paid £140.

What was the payment form cash, visa, cheque etc.

You might have a claim for shoddy workmanship.

But do check 7.0w to see if tracking the arc.

Regards

 

[Tony1A]

I've already scanned in 7.3w. I have a 1m Gibby dish with Inverto Black LNB. I'll be looking at 7.3w this afternoon when I have a flick around . Paid in cash btw.

 

[Lazarus]

You should get decent results from Eutelsat 7WA frequencies with that dish, hopefully.

Nothing from the Nilesat frequencies, though.

 

[Tony1A]

Tried Nilesat. Nothing!

 

[Lazarus]

^^^^^^

You want the Eutelsat 7WA TPs: As mentioned above, you won't get anything off the remaining Nilesat TPs.

Hang on a minute and I'll tell you which is the strongest TP here.

 

[Lazarus]

Ok

Try 10719 V 22000

 

[sonnetpete]

You could also try this, as it seems to be my best result :

 

[Channel Hopper]

At a later date I am going to call in someone else to sort this. There are things here that I am not truly happy with. Some courses of brick are hidden behind facia. Not a bum deal - but could have had a better one. Your opinions are welcome!!

The install doesn't look too bad, the height of metal above the brackets means that the dish could be raised a tad just in case there is another satellite at the end of the arc to view.
The T and K brackets used are the shortest I've seen and these should cope with the pole used, and it looks like the proper scaffold stuff, which is about the best for this system.
The cable can be pulled back slightly from the LNB clamp end as there appears to be enough in the drip loop.

Post a couple of images of the dish side on, it may be possible to determine if there is a small warp in the reflector surface that is draining the overall signal. The LNB is also at the extreme of the clamp, fine if the dish was peaked before locking up, but I would have expected optimum signal with it about 25-75% of the way.

What else are you not happy with, apart from the lack of 7W ?

 

[Tony1A]

It's the fact there is no washers on the bolts in the bottom bracket. Or in the bottom one in the K bracket. Improvements could have been made on this install. I know it! BTW I am getting 7W. I could have done better. I also would have used my meter and not the TV type Satlink one. Nothing wrong with them, I have one. But sometimes you need something better.

 

[pontiend]

Ok

Try 10719 V 22000

Yes that is a good one, Qater TV I always use it when checking signal strengh on 7.3.

 

[Lazarus]

Next up:

4W

Do not Blind Scan as you'll get 5W!

Try 10806 V 30000 (TA3) and take it from there.

 

[Huevos]

Do not Blind Scan as you'll get 5W!

Depends what you are using.

 

[gibertini]

The install doesn't look too bad

i disagree personally m8... looks like a job done by an enthusiast helping a m8 out for the price of a drink and not a professional who does it day in, day out for a living. any installer worth his salt does the best possible job with the equipment provided and he should be ashamed charging £140 for the job done imo

 

[Huevos]

i disagree personally m8... looks like a job done by an enthusiast

Totally disagree. A professional does it for a job and tries to complete the job as quick as possible. On the other hand an enthusiast has plenty of time to faff around getting things "perfect".

he should be ashamed charging £140

Can't see anything wrong with charging that. These days that barely buys a shopping trolley full of groceries. And he has to pay tax, SS, and goodness knows what other expense out of it.

 

[gibertini]

Totally disagree. A professional does it for a job and tries to complete the job as quick as possible. On the other hand an enthusiast has plenty of time to faff around getting things "perfect".

i understand the speed element but that still doesnt excuse shoddy workmanship and i standby what i said, the installer should be ashamed

 

[hairybadger]

Totally disagree. A professional does it for a job and tries to complete the job as quick as possible. On the other hand an enthusiast has plenty of time to faff around getting things "perfect".

OK - but skimping on the washers? Lazy or just doesn't care?

 

[Huevos]

OK - but skimping on the washers? Lazy or just doesn't care?

Well I already said that above. Maybe he ran out. And it's not washers (plural), it is one washer. As far as I can see that is the only obvious oversight in this install.

 

[skomedal]

Pity it was a cash job.

 

[hairybadger]

Well I already said that above. Maybe he ran out. And it's not washers (plural), it is one washer. As far as I can see that is the only obvious oversight in this install.

"skimping on washer" wouldn't sound right Anyway 2 missing at the bottom, 1 at the top = 3. And that's just what we can see - it doesn't breed confidence. If what we can see if visibly lacking, who knows what lurks beneath the surface? Maybe he didn't have enough bolts of the right length/diameter either....

 

[Lazarus]

i understand the speed element but that still doesnt excuse shoddy workmanship and i standby what i said, the installer should be ashamed

That's the thing: The key element is Quality.


When all's said and done, Tony does appear to be getting performance commensurate with the size of dish and his location (from what we've had reported to us so far), but of course time will tell how robust the installation is.

And there, at least, hobby installations have the clear advantage of instant fault rectification/re-alignment etc. if the owner/user did the original work themselves.

How many of us have had to spend literally minutes re-aligning after high winds have revealed mechanical integrity flaws!