Recent content by 5ºwest

hi Brano I am in eastern asturias and am finding the 28deg reception difficult so some of the things I have found with fringe reception may help I have a Gibertini 1.5 dish with an Invacom quad LNB and Gibertini feed horn. When first set up I got almost nothing, then last winter it all sprang...

appologies for wrong info in the earlier post - the feedhorn I have is a Gibertini not Invacom ( captain jack - it came an online supplier in north wales £24) Dish is an offset Gibertini 1.5 and all the LNBs I tried are quad It appeared to me that the inverto black ultra was slightly better...

an update of my post from september have now got round to setting up the 1.5 gilbertini (offset) and have tried a selection of LNBs - invacom QDH 031 inverto black quad invacom QDH flange versions with an invacom feedhorn have managed to get a decent signal. using a horizon usb+ meter the...

hi txops I am about 100km west of you and had no luck with a 1.1m on 2F when CH4 etc moved so bought a 1.5 gilbertini and a selection of LNBs - inverto black quad, invacom QDH 031 and the flange versions with a gilbertini feedhorn, but they were no better. when BBC etc moved I gave up on uk...

my name has been changed since the upgrade it should be 5ºwest and cant find a way of changing names with the new system. FIXED

given that you are right on the limit of reception then as postulated above small changes could mean the difference between reception and no reception ( stating the obvious!) so it will be a slow process of trying to identify which. so to see if the culprit is the LNB getting hot can you...

before investing in new cable the first move should be to eliminate the cable from the equation. disconnect all the existing cables from the LNB and then check at the LNB with the meter and a new (short) cable ( in an earlier reply you said that you measure at the LNB so you may have tried this...

56.7º but that was a shade temp. LNBs or thermometers even in partial sun will be hotter. don't have the heat problem here in the north, but i do have the 2F problem. footprint maps suggest a 1.2m dish should be ok, but i get nothing with a 1.1m and invacom universal quad. also thinking of...

ho hum - there is something strange here. 100% SQ and very low SS is a new one for me. There is always some unwanted signal in the 'atmosphere' at the same frequency as the signal we are looking for and the LNB will pick this up + the LNB itself generates some noise. So with low signal I would...

thanks for the replies, I will use for further comments on that subject and can leave this threadfor the universal/ feed horn investigation. but your feedback and some on that other thread show that 2F can be received in Spain with 1.8m or 2.4m dishes. so now I have some confidence that I...

to pick up on the comment from radicaldoc on the loss of 2F I am on the north coast (of spain) where a 1.1m dish and an invacom quad gave pretty good reception of 2D with typical SQ of 50% and outages only during torrential rain and could get reasonble service with a 80cm. After the satellite...