Marcas
Member
- Joined
- Apr 16, 2008
- Messages
- 31
- Reaction score
- 2
- Points
- 8
- Age
- 59
- My Satellite Setup
- Fracarro penta 85cm dish, motek motor and Technomate 5200D receiver
- My Location
- Belfast
I have tried to get 5w with and without the motor without success. I can point it in the right direction with a signal meter but can't get a picture even by making minute adjustments. The best I can do is "bad signal" rather than "no signal." It is possible that some trees are in the way but I don't think they are close enough.
Since I couldn't set up on 5w I used instructions I got with the Motek and entered my co-ordinates into the Global Automatic Antenna Positioning System on a Motek website to get the azimuth angle on the motor for 19E. I set the motor to this angle, then mounted the dish on it and put the lot on my pole. I then followed the motek instructions and adjusted the dish to 19E manually. I did a bit of fine tuning using the motor controls then stored the best signal. I then checked if adjusting the elevation of the dish bracket would improve the signal. A change of about 1 degree or less brought a slight improvement. I also confirmed that changing the angle of the lnb didn't make a difference. From there I managed to find and store a number of other sats including Hotbird and Sirius2. The figures for Hotbird in terms of signal strength were similar to 19E.
Even if setting up according to the Motek instructions, rather than on 5w, might not seem the best idea, I suspect the motor isn't really the issue as I didn't get a better performance setting up manually on one sat.
Since I couldn't set up on 5w I used instructions I got with the Motek and entered my co-ordinates into the Global Automatic Antenna Positioning System on a Motek website to get the azimuth angle on the motor for 19E. I set the motor to this angle, then mounted the dish on it and put the lot on my pole. I then followed the motek instructions and adjusted the dish to 19E manually. I did a bit of fine tuning using the motor controls then stored the best signal. I then checked if adjusting the elevation of the dish bracket would improve the signal. A change of about 1 degree or less brought a slight improvement. I also confirmed that changing the angle of the lnb didn't make a difference. From there I managed to find and store a number of other sats including Hotbird and Sirius2. The figures for Hotbird in terms of signal strength were similar to 19E.
Even if setting up according to the Motek instructions, rather than on 5w, might not seem the best idea, I suspect the motor isn't really the issue as I didn't get a better performance setting up manually on one sat.