A little report about receiving British TV near the second null in Midsweden (near Falun). I thought I would write down my experiences and mistakes to help others and prevent unnecessary expenditures.
I finally admitted that my Gibertiny 150 wasn’t quite up to the job in receiving SKY and BBC. I bought the 180cm ChannelMaster. With a disc of that size you really start to notice the difference between 28,2 degrees east and 28,5 degrees. With a motorized dish this isn’t an issue but without the tweaking is a compromise. After nearly 14 days with a result clearly worse than the old Gibertiny I have a good result. What I did was:
If you want to prioritize BBC and still get the other channels on 2F and 2G start with adjusting your dish perfectly to 2E on 28,5 east and ever so slowly finetune the dish westwards until you get an acceptable reception of 2G and 2F.
LNB: Inverto Black Ultra Pro single has served me very well and is an excellent LNB. The case for the quad is not as good though. I followed the advice from a Spanish forum and bought a Tecnomate TM-4. It outperformed BY FAR the Inverto even with the dedicated CM feedhorn. You would with the Technomate get a rocksolid picture on the vertical trsp on 2E (BBC London) where you with Inverto or Invacom quad would get a totally pixelated picture/no reception at all on the stronger horizontal trsp (BBC Oxford).
I also did the mistake of trying to upgrade my Sky box from the loyal servant Pace 2600 C1 to Sky+ DRX 890 and a second Freesat box (Humax HB 1100S). The Sky+ is almost as good but where the Pace gives reception on BBC 24/7 the Sky+ struggles a little bit in the evening dip but primarily the HD channels are more difficult to receive. The Humax gives a slightly worse result than the DRX 890. So I bought another Pace 2600 for the bedroom on ebay for 25£ :-)
..... too work for me....
