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<blockquote data-quote="Hitchcock" data-source="post: 136948" data-attributes="member: 196478"><p>Steve, my hat's off to you, YOU'VE DONE IT, MY MATE! YOU'VE ACTUALLY DONE IT!! YOU'VE ACHIEVED THE "<span style="color: red"><strong>IMPOSSIBLE</strong></span>"!!! :-righton</p><p></p><p>I believe this is THE FIRST REPORT OF ANY RECEPTION OF 61.5°W IN <span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: green">IRELAND</span></span>!!! :-rock</p><p></p><p>SO CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN!!!</p><p></p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite22" alt=":-party1" title="xParty 1 :-party1" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":-party1" /> </p><p></p><p></p><p>What really amazes me is that you're managing to pick up the signal (albeit barely) with "just" a 2.4 m dish! I already knew this had been reported possible in Tenerife with a dish of the same size, but up north in Ireland — who would have imagined?! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /></p><p></p><p>Well, what a smack in the face of all the hard sceptics <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite14" alt=":-doh" title="DOH! :-doh" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":-doh" />! — those who maintained over and over it just couldn't be done! :-away</p><p></p><p>By they way, have you tried picking up any other <a href="http://www.lyngsat.com/america.html" target="_blank">other satellites</a> further west? I put in a <a href="http://www.satellites.co.uk/php-bin/forum/showthread.php?p=267989#post267989" target="_blank">post</a> two days ago in your previous thread and I suggested two other satellites that might be of equal or even more interest, namely <a href="http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/directvusa72.html" target="_blank">DirecTV 1</a> (72.5°W) and <a href="http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/expressvu2.html" target="_blank">Nimiq 2</a> (82°W).</p><p></p><p>Also, I would be interested to know which channels your receiver is managing to find, whether encrypted or unencrypted (You are not using a true Dish Network receiver from the States, are you?). On which frequency is the test card?</p><p></p><p>Are you using a circularly polarized feed (as opposed to linearly polarised which is how all the European satellites transmit in the Ku-band)? What is the noise figure of your LNB?</p><p></p><p>Again, cheers for some really NICE WORK there in Ireland! :-cheers </p><p></p><p>Alfred</p><p></p><p></p><p>P.S. It would be great if you could post a snapshot of your set-up to us here on the Forum.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hitchcock, post: 136948, member: 196478"] Steve, my hat's off to you, YOU'VE DONE IT, MY MATE! YOU'VE ACTUALLY DONE IT!! YOU'VE ACHIEVED THE "[color=red][b]IMPOSSIBLE[/b][/color]"!!! :-righton I believe this is THE FIRST REPORT OF ANY RECEPTION OF 61.5°W IN [size=4][color=green]IRELAND[/color][/size]!!! :-rock SO CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN!!! :-party1 What really amazes me is that you're managing to pick up the signal (albeit barely) with "just" a 2.4 m dish! I already knew this had been reported possible in Tenerife with a dish of the same size, but up north in Ireland — who would have imagined?! :eek: Well, what a smack in the face of all the hard sceptics :-DOH! — those who maintained over and over it just couldn't be done! :-away By they way, have you tried picking up any other [url="http://www.lyngsat.com/america.html"]other satellites[/url] further west? I put in a [url="http://www.satellites.co.uk/php-bin/forum/showthread.php?p=267989#post267989"]post[/url] two days ago in your previous thread and I suggested two other satellites that might be of equal or even more interest, namely [url="http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/directvusa72.html"]DirecTV 1[/url] (72.5°W) and [url="http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/expressvu2.html"]Nimiq 2[/url] (82°W). Also, I would be interested to know which channels your receiver is managing to find, whether encrypted or unencrypted (You are not using a true Dish Network receiver from the States, are you?). On which frequency is the test card? Are you using a circularly polarized feed (as opposed to linearly polarised which is how all the European satellites transmit in the Ku-band)? What is the noise figure of your LNB? Again, cheers for some really NICE WORK there in Ireland! :-cheers Alfred P.S. It would be great if you could post a snapshot of your set-up to us here on the Forum. [/QUOTE]
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