Trouble locating Hotbird 13E

Melvyn

Hi all,

for a couple of months or so I've been able to get all the hotbird channels but recently a strong wind must have moved my dish and now I'm having trouble locating the satellite again.

Now my dish is a 60cm I think and is one of the early sky ones. The only tools I have at my disposal are an old analog receiver and a satfinder meter - which I must say isn't the most user friendly bit of kit. To view the channels I'm using altdvb.

Anyway I managed to get very close as I started getting a few channels at varying quality - some very good quality actually. I assumed all the satellite chanels or whatever are all very close together so if I could point roughly in the right direction then I should get all the channels. Is my assumption correct or do I really have to fine tune where my dish points to?

Also I've tried again tonight to improve the signal, and although the satfinder seems to be finding something I've lost all the channels again.

Even when I was getting all the hotbird channels a couple of months back the highest signal strength I ever saw in AltDVb was something like 47% Level and 30% Quality. Now I'm getting 43% level and 15-17% Quality but no picture. Before today when I got a few channels I was getting 45%L and 20%Q.

Firstly can someone tell me what signal quality readings I could/should be getting. Perhaps my dish is warped or something. My LNB is only a few months old by the way.

Second is there a piece of kit - like a satfinder that could more accurately find a satellite in the Sky. I mean what do the professionals use?

Thanks in advance for any pointers. I'm pulling my hair out here racing up and down the ladder, connecting and reconnecting that rubbishy satfinder, and finding I've still got no picture.

Oh - I just thought of another question. Is there a signal booster or whatever that could help.

thanks again - Melv

Topper

First of all you must consider other thing as well for example, is there an ingress of moisture into the cable, is the F connector coverd with self amalgamating tape?
whilst 60 cm should be Ok to receive most channels any slight deviation in accuracy of alignment will degrade the signal considerably
Hotbird is a collection of 4 co-located satellites and in theory you should not notice any difference but again it depend upon the above points
unless your cable run is in excess of 50 metres no it will not help indeed may hinder

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Melvyn

Hi All......a quick update. I managed to track down Hotbird again - more luck than judgement. Let's hope those strong easterly winds down blow it off track again.

Anyway, as an aside I noticed that a load of channels weren't working so I reset the transponder list (120+ now) and retuned. All pretty much nack to normal again but M****vision channels aren't working. I've seen some posts saying they are out but is there anything else decent on HB? Perhaps with a different softcam.

cheers
M

hoppo1

no is the answer to anything else decent on Hotbird.
It may be worth you finding Hispasat at 30W for the Mediapark package, but i have no idea of the dish size needed for the UK. 40cm in Spain. But you ain't in Spain!!