Probelms with receiving Hellas sat and others.

StewartT

Hi all

Earlier this year I had an 80 cm motorised dish installed along with a Topfield TF6000PVR Wireless PVR. It's set up the receiver to use USALS. All was well then one day I could not watch anything on Hellas sat 39.0 E. At the time I was still setting up the satellites I wanted so I thought I had messed it up. When I rescanned I picked up a total of 0 TV and 0 radio channels. I've not had a chance to look at it until last week. The signal level as shown on the PVR is about 72% -76% which seems to be the norm here (Chesterfield) but the quality varies. On 11099 / V /1478 and 11140 / V / 1425 the quality is 99%. On all other transponders the quality is 0 however some of them will flicker to maybe 5 - 10%. If I scan now I sometimes pickup a total of 2 channels. ReformTV on 11099 / V /1478 and Pgm1 on 11140 / V / 1425. Other satellites at 28.5 E and to the west of that are fine. Anything to the east has problems. Eurobird 3 33.0 E is 0 quality on all transponders except 11596 / V / 27500 which is 69% on quality. A scan finds no channels. On Eutelsat W4 36 E it's 0 quality on 0 channels on scan. I don't know if I have a setup problem or if there is something that I can't see blocking or interfering with the signal. Sorry this is long winded but I wanted to include as much info as I could.I hope someone will be able to point me in tyhe right direction to solve this.

TIA

Stewart

guest

In all probability you have suffered from a very small mechanical misalignment induced by either strong winds and/or inadequately tightened bolts and clamps.

At best your Dish may have slipped a bit around the Motor stub.

At worst, but also easily resolved, your Mount may have gone a tiny bit out of true. This has happened to me (and I reckon I'm not alone ............) as the result of insufficiently torqued nuts on the V clamps between T&K brackets and pole. As the "holes" in the brackets are slotted, a soupçon of slippage occurred (The pole tipped forward) and Satellites towards the end of the Arc disappeared.

5 minutes with a spirit level and self-grip wench sorted that out.

Bbigfoot

Hi StewartT,

I have your problemat Hellas 39e. I had my system installed by a Sat Installer
and still no joy with 39e.
my problem seems to be, when the Motor stops a 39e, the 80cm dishes
plain is 10 to 15% looking down. check your Dish and see if its Vertical
or is it up or down.
I know 30w is a low satellite the dish has to be Vertical to pull in 30w.

About you Signal quality, it may to your LNBs Scew.
I just moved a Zone 1 S*y dish to (1w and Thor 0.8w) the Sig Quality
on Thor was between (32% and 65%). I rememberd about S*ys LNB
being at 15% Scew to the Left as you look at the Dish.
Turned the LNB to just about Vertical with the 35cm Dish, and the
Thor Sig quality shot up to ( 61% and 81%).
The same with Digitv @ 1w Sig Quality was (17%) on DigiFilm 1, Tweeked
the LNB and digiFilm 1 shop up to 31%. now pull in all 450 Open
Channels on Thor and Intelsat with a Zone 1, 35cm Dish.
More than 70 Film cannels, and never miss a match.

BF...

Channel Hopper

It might be worth checking if the driver cog in the motor has play on the arc at that point. I have seen a few of the cheaper motors with nylon cogs, and on one from a well known branded supplier, thrust bearings made out of plastic.

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"

satelliteman

39e & 42e are easily receivable, sounds like your not tracking the arc on the far East. Might be worth sending your dish back to reference and checking dish alignment.

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StewartT

Thanks for the advice and to all the others who took the time to reply. I'll get the dish checked out soonest.

Thanks again for the advice.