Recent content by wallycharlo

I've noticed the same over the last week or so.

I've noticed a considerable signal drop on Astra 2E UK beam for about at least a week or so. E.g. BBC ONE & TWO HD are now breaking up in the evening, was fine before. We had strong winds recently I had thought that perhaps my dish had shifted, which sent me out into the cold last night trying...

Agreed, and holding solid throughout the evening :)

2E UK beam considerably weaker here since at least a week, I lose most channels in the evening.

Some chatter about as of late that Sky are going to do a card change soon, with a nice pic of a red sky card doing the rounds. Could just be nonsense of course, but the timing would be pretty consistent with past swaps I think? Has anyone else heard anything?

Thanks a lot to everyone for your replies. The two dish solution would be preferrable to me simply because I have all of the equipment I need hanging around.All in all a bigger dish would of course be the cleaner solution, I currently have a 1m, so even going up to 1.25m may help signifigantly...

I'm living on the fringe of the 2E / 2F UK beam, and have noticed that I can get a noticeable improvement in reception of channels of one polarization by skewing the LNB, though at the disadvantage of then weakening those on the opposing polarization. Hence the following mad idea has occurred to...

All 2E spot beam channels coming in well, in general SNR today is much better than that which transmission started with last week ; e.g.BBC ONE HD had been one of the weaker channels with an SNR of ca 38-40%, but I'm seeing it at 52% right now. (I'm as West as you can get in Austria, right on...

Folks, I'm looking for a formula for Signal-to-Noise ratio for a satellite Rx setup, i.e. where SNR can be calcualted using metrics such as Antenna Gain, Receiver Noise Figure, LNB Noise Figure, Transmission line loss, etc, etc. Perhaps one of you learned folks can point me in the correct...

Anyone have any theories as to what may be going on here? I've not come accross anything like this before ...

Yes, I have noticed exactly the same as of late while watching Channel 4HD, and it has also baffled me! It was actually my strongest transponder on 2F Uk beam, but started acting up like this about a week or two ago. Very odd.

I am also seeing a considerable increase in Signal Strength on 2F spot beam over the last couple of days. 11023H now watchable with nearly no pixelation, had been losing it practically on a permanent basis before.

So, here is a picture of my current dish and stand. I am curious now as to whether the stand would still support the 125/150 ? The full setup will have to move to the right of course to compensate for the larger diameter. I had assumed up to now that the required pole diameter would be the...

So I'm on the fringe of the Astra 2F UK spot beam, I can receive all channels during the day, whereas there can be problems in the evening sometimes, though other times I just about hold onto them, it's about 50-50. My receiver is a DM800, and I've noted that an SNR reading of ca 45% of more...

OK, so I get it now why transponders are being duplicated at the moment, but why are the originals on 1N going way down in power?