1.8 dish help needed please

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i have had a 80 cm dish for over a year and have just brought a 1.8 merte dish so i can pick up nilesat i live in portsmouth have done some reading and some post say i might struggle to pick up nilesat can some please help.
 

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What make dish is it? What lnb and feed are you using?
 

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red rum,


when i had a 1.6mtr dish i got the verticals and thats from hartlepool in the north east, so realy you should pick it up, possibly the horizontals as well
 

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At a guess its one of the 99 quid Maplin dishes. (Horribly low quality and have a nasty tendency to buckle in winter storms!)
 

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Well if it is, then spend a few hours assembling the reflector, ideall on a very flat floor surface, one of our members RD100 has managed to get one to perform reasonably, but said that setup is crucial. The dish is i believed supplied with a standard LNBF, a C120 and feedhorn would probably produce better results.

If it isn't, would be interesting to know which brand it is. :)
 

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it is a IRTE s.p.a made in italy i have order a c120 and a feedhorn and a v box 2 as the dish and moter is very old have been told this is what i need hopeing to get tomorrow to start geting it setup just hopeing it is big enough for nilesat so i can get the football cheers redrum
 

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Look forward to reading the results Redrum, although I had the impression it was going to be a fixed system.... don't know where that came from :D
 

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yes mate will let you know hope quite soon have you heard of the dish.
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redrum said:
it is a IRTE s.p.a made in italy i have order a c120 and a feedhorn and a v box 2 as the dish and moter is very old have been told this is what i need hopeing to get tomorrow to start geting it setup just hopeing it is big enough for nilesat so i can get the football cheers redrum

on the feedhorn did you buy an adjustable one so you can get the best setting for the dish, the invacom feedhorn is a good one.

if the motor is an actuator then you might need to change it for a new one.
 

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not to sure want i have ordered.the motor is a superjack ll +
 

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the motor should look like this if the dish uses a polar mount
 

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The IRTE is a very good dish. There is a matched feed horn for the IRTE, see if you can get hold of one. It will perform much better with the matched feed.


-http://www.irte.it/I/a_csat.htm
 

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yes wod it does look like that won when rain stops will try and set up let you know how i get on
 

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set my 1.8 dish up and have pick up nilesat got all the showtime channels and sports channels signal strength is between 45 and 65 so i thing when it rains might not get a picture.
 

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What feed horn did you use?
 

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not to sure but dont thing i change the feed horn just but the c120 on.
i im bretty new had this so my sound a bit thick.my next thing is to get a viewing card or keys what is my best option look for key and could only find old one so i am guessing they dont come up very often can someone help.
 

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So What feed horn did you use with the C120 lnb?

Regarding the keys, just use the latest patch for your Technomate;)

Dont you use a spell checker?:-rofl2;)
 

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I'm using the original feed horn that came with the dish.

That's why I don't leave many posts as spelling and grammar not my strong points. (I get the wife to do it when she's about!)
 

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You will have no problem in Portsmouth getting the horizontal channels on 7 W with a 1.8m IRTE dish. I am in S W England and have a 2.0m IRTE and get all the horizontal channels.
 
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