Thanks for the great info guys......here's how it went
Spent a lot of time adjusting the pole with the dish and motor on it...its my old sky mount that was squint....got everything level as it should be then started the fun bit
Couldn't find Thor.....so thought about it and thought if i could get a good signal on hotbird or Astra 19e then the rest should follow.....used the receiver to move the motor and had a few goes at moving the dish but picking up different satellites than the ones i wanted then after a few hours and numerous trips up the ladder ...bingo found 19e...not a great signal bit a signal none the less.....a little bit of tweaking and more swearing than usual the signal improved...scanned and got over 700 channels...went to 28.2 and scanned there getting a lot of channels as well...went back to hotbird and got 10 channels.....gave it one more tweek with the meter on one of the channels and the signal went from 20% to over 70%....scanned again and picked up over 1000 channels and an improved signal on the others as well.
So all in all a happy bunny
Now off for a glass or two of wine
Once again guys thanks for your help |