Originally Posted by titan23  Well I have now sorted it out , I was on the wrong satellite. Despite having a very strong sat meter signal and it dropping significantly moving farther east It looks like I was on 23.5 not 28.2. My Maplin sat meter just does not see 28.2 it seems to be swamped by 23.5. What was confusing was the 4200 indicates a good signal strength for 28.2. Once I realised the problem I marked a guesstimated 5 deg on the tube and moved it in tiny increments until I got a signal on the reciever, I now have all the channels. |
Thanks Titan23!
I followed your steps
of tweaking slowly to the east from where I thought I was pointed at astra and BINGO! I hear the distinctive BBC radio 4 voice for a microsecond. Fishing about there got me onto Astra proper. As you said "What was confusing was the 4200 indicates a good signal strength for 28.2."