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

[Malard]

does anyone have experience in tuning this sized dish to nilesat? if anyone is in the peterborough area, i'm willing to pay for it to be tuned

Thanks

 

[Channel Hopper]

Bit far from here unfortunately.

At what point did you think you needed expertise aligning the dish ?

 

[Malard]

i dont have a clinometer to get the vertical alignment, physically moving the dish is proving tricky on my own.

 

[satelliteman]

Have you a meter to set it up on Nile?

 

[Malard]

no, but i managed to find a local sat engineer who helped me fine tune it, its currently very overcast with light drizzle and i am getting 80% on 11977V and 79% on 11996H

which should give me some overage with rain fade i figure?

 

[satelliteman]

Got to be happy with that result for H Tp's

 

[Malard]

actually with more tweeking, i got the V upto 94% and H upto 91%

 

[satelliteman]

When done, why not upload some pictures

 

[Malard]

have done, check previous post to my facebook album

 

[Telia]

Your Facebook requires password which we don't have.

 

[satelliteman]

have done, check previous post to my facebook album

Uploading your set up images here (as attachments) might be of some interest to others

 

[Malard]

group 1 of photos

 

[Malard]

group 2 .....

 

[Malard]

and the last batch

 

[Channel Hopper]

Nice photos and results, and the dish looks like it is in good shape.

Now all you have to do is tell the wife and kids the garden is off bounds.

 

[Vipersan]

..A thing of great beauty Malard ..
Poetry in steel & Aluminium.
:-worship

I am soooo envious.
VS

 

[Malard]

Nice photos and results, and the dish looks like it is in good shape.

Now all you have to do is tell the wife and kids the garden is off bounds.

well, luckily have no wife or kids so no problem there although that said i can stand right infront of the dish, and even inside and it has no noticable effect on the picture, only if i stick something directly infront of the lnb does it break up.

 

[wod]

very nice have you got showtime in for the football ?

the neighbours must not mind the dish as it will be very large in size.

wouldn't a 1.8m have been enough for 7west ?

 

[Telia]

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

 

[Malard]

i've got every nilesat transponder and all are over 80% quality when overcast, today was bright and it was up near 95% on my technomate box

neighbours helped me build it and yes i have showtime channels.

Its possible the dish is overkill, but its for commercial use (my garden is only a temporary site) so better be safe that sorry