2.4m Raven (Formerly ASC Signal, formerly Andrews, formerly Channel Master) dish inst

Malard · 29-08-2009

oh one more thing, i would'nt know about extra transponders, unfortunatly i only need the 2 used for EPL games, and i spent alot of time focusing the dish to pick these up as strongly as possible. I have no plans to re-orient the dish as its been used to stream pictures to our analysis center in esti.

Malard · 29-08-2009

Originally Posted by Telia

Will you get all Nilesat transponders with that dish in UK?

i'm getting all the transponders *i think* and very good quality. It seems slightly overkill also dish size wise from my location, but i only did a basic test of obscuring a portion of the dish by standing directly infront of part of the reflector.

**Telia** · 29-08-2009

You can never go too large for a dish, excellent choice.

***CROSSBONES*** · 29-08-2009

Excellent neat and tidy set up!

Thats what you call a dish!!

**nelson_b** · 30-08-2009

hi

a superb setup --

what l.n.b. / feed - setup have you used on the dish --
to bring in such good reults ?

Well done -- regards nelson.b.

Malard · 30-08-2009

Originally Posted by nelson_b

hi

a superb setup --

what l.n.b. / feed - setup have you used on the dish --
to bring in such good reults ?

Well done -- regards nelson.b.

I used the horn that came with it, and an invacom c120, the dish comes with a load of metalwork to support rx/tx but it all got removed and i just connected directly to the feed

***Turok*** · 30-08-2009

do you have some picture,of the current setup now?

**geoffrey** · 3 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by Malard

and the last batch

Many thanks for a very useful set of posts - as I am planning a 243 installation. I want to mount my antenna inverted as I am only looking at Astra which is at 53 degrees elevation here. This will make the dish 30 degrees from horizontal (as the offset angle is 22.6 degrees) so it can be more easily hidden. From the pictures (both your pictures and the installation manual) it looks as if the dish can be mounted inverted if the elevation attachment bracket is simply moved to the other end of the backframe assembly (or a new bracket fabricated for that position). From your now intimate knowledge of the antenna can you say if it looks if my proposal will work

**geoffrey** · 3 Weeks Ago

I have found the answer to my question thanks to Peter Gardner the product line manager at Raven Skyware (as the company is now known). He sent me a picture of the modification - adding a new tab for the elevation rod to the support bracket - however, he is unable to supply the tab as the support bracket is brought in from a subcontractor.

enc:

***Tivù*** · 3 Weeks Ago

Linkie returns "page not found"

**geoffrey** · 3 Weeks Ago

I have removed my attempt at pasting and added the picture as an attachment.

***Tivù*** · 3 Weeks Ago

That's done the trick

Malard · 2 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by geoffrey

Many thanks for a very useful set of posts - as I am planning a 243 installation. I want to mount my antenna inverted as I am only looking at Astra which is at 53 degrees elevation here. This will make the dish 30 degrees from horizontal (as the offset angle is 22.6 degrees) so it can be more easily hidden. From the pictures (both your pictures and the installation manual) it looks as if the dish can be mounted inverted if the elevation attachment bracket is simply moved to the other end of the backframe assembly (or a new bracket fabricated for that position). From your now intimate knowledge of the antenna can you say if it looks if my proposal will work

You should have no difficulty in adjusting the reflector to a 30 degree ~ angle.

the picture you attached is identical to the bracket that the unit ships with.

This would appear to be another instance of Raven trying to sell items that are not required.

I experienced a similar issue when i was oversold on my order and they would not accept a return.

Just buy the dish and kingpost/non penetrating ground mount and you will have everything you need except and LNB

combridge · 2 Weeks Ago

hi fantastic set up what r the pictures lke at the other end when you stream them is it still a good picture or do you lose some of the quailty thanks.
ive got 1.8 at moment and only get all v in the day time at 70% no h till night but thinking of up grading to a 2.4 but ive heard alot about people streaming it to each other but picture not very good just wondered what your thoughts were cheers

Malard · 2 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by combridge

hi fantastic set up what r the pictures lke at the other end when you stream them is it still a good picture or do you lose some of the quailty thanks.
ive got 1.8 at moment and only get all v in the day time at 70% no h till night but thinking of up grading to a 2.4 but ive heard alot about people streaming it to each other but picture not very good just wondered what your thoughts were cheers

Absolutely no problems at any time of the day from my location to get nilesat on a 2.4m dish

Could'nt fault it

combridge · 2 Weeks Ago

thanks do you use sling box to stream the pictures

**geoffrey** · 2 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by Malard

You should have no difficulty in adjusting the reflector to a 30 degree ~ angle.

the picture you attached is identical to the bracket that the unit ships with.

This would appear to be another instance of Raven trying to sell items that are not required.

I experienced a similar issue when i was oversold on my order and they would not accept a return.

Just buy the dish and kingpost/non penetrating ground mount and you will have everything you need except and LNB

Many thanks fo the reply.
From the pictures it looks as if the bracket is welded to the back support - are you saying that its actually bolted on ?

Geoffrey

Malard · 1 Week Ago

Originally Posted by geoffrey

Many thanks fo the reply.
From the pictures it looks as if the bracket is welded to the back support - are you saying that its actually bolted on ?

Geoffrey

It's all bolts to construct any welding is from fabrication

look at the component pictures to get a netter idea

thanks

Malard · 1 Week Ago

Originally Posted by combridge

thanks do you use sling box to stream the pictures

No, I've actually got a set of exterity pro encoders to the job but I wouldn't rate them highly despite their 4.5k price tag

if I was going to do this again I would possibly use slingboxes and then do an encoding of the pictures at the remote location into an ip stream

combridge · 1 Week Ago

cheers are you still getting strong frequence on both transponders thanks

Malard · 5 Days Ago

Originally Posted by combridge

cheers are you still getting strong frequence on both transponders thanks

yes and i have no reason to suspect it changing in the future.

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