Tiny SIDEWAYS dish - indoors 5w, 8w, 30w!

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I thought I'd start a new thread for this one as this is the first time I've used my "tiny Hispa" dish sideways - plus it's in a different location! I've gotta have my spanish telly even when I'm crashing at my parents'!

It's the first time I've tried this dish sideways and I was gobsmacked with the results. On Hispasat I get nearly all the stronger signals (both H and V) at 91% quality. That's around about the best signal you can get on this receiver (Fortec Ultimate) - only some transponders at 19e/28e through my properly installed outdoor fixed dish (back at mine) come in at a higher percentage.

Also, I tried the dish outdoors (and the right way up!) and wasn't getting these kinds of results!

I found Atlantic Bird 3 easy enough, just tuned into the France TV transponder and swung the dish roughly in the direction I figured it needed to point. 91% - I love that transponder, loud and clear, rain and shine. Shame there's not more like it in that part of the sky. Got the MCM/Globecast transponder too (nice feed from ETB Spain at the time!) Whilst in that neighbourhood I decided I may as well try 8 west. Couldn't get much other than Eutelsat test cards and the new Arabic FTA transponder. Some english language programming there.

And so to Hispasat... I stumble upon it accidently as it happens! I thought I had the dish pointed at Sirius. How wrong was I! Not even close! As much as I tried telling myself that the dish really wasn't pointing in the direction I imagined because it was offset to the side, I still managed to fluff it up.

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2cvbloke

Amazing!!!

These little dishes really are versatile little things, shame I broke the clamp on mine....

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Just moments after I posted that my phone rang to tell me I had new email - and lo and behold, 2cvbloke's replied to me post! Ain't modern technology great?! You're quick off the mark...

Yahoo Go! and 30 meg on my smartphone - gotta love it! Opera Mini came in handy earlier when I wanted to check transponder lists, my folks have a PC but no internet access - doh!

Couldn't upload these others in the first post, so here they are. Gives you more idea of the Hispa reception.

BTW, sorry to hear the clamp broke on yours. God knows what you were doing with it! I'll have to be careful with mine.

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2cvbloke

I've nackered the little brass screw thread thingy, it won't stay in place so I can't tighten up the clamp around the LNB, I'm sure a bit of superglue or areldite (can't remember how to spell it.... ) would sort it out...

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The irony is that it's so much easier to get Hispasat in that room than it is to get Freeview via an aerial in that room! The room is on the 'wrong side' of the house for reception off the local UHF transmitter, but on the 'right side' for satellite!

kamaleon

Hi skip, long time no see

hehe your porty's still rocking, great to see that