euskalikaslea said:
Hi Nagusia,
As you may have seen from my previous posting I'm also in the San Sebastian area and completely lucked out with the 80cm dish. So, if you do change to a larger dish can you be so kind as to post what (minimum?) works for you. I REALLY do not want to go back to watching Spanish/Basque TV more than I have to, ie once a month, once the BBC changes sat. Ta.
Located in the Basque Country just south of San Sebastian @ 43.186929, -2.052548, yesterday I installed a new 1 metre dish (ALCAD PF-100 (100x110) with an Inverto single black ultra LNB. With cloudless skies I got the following results as measured on a a program called ProgFinder using a Tevii S660 USB receiver plugged into a PC.
S Q
10964H 84 42%
10994V 84 34%
11023H 0 0
11052H 84 45%
11126V 82 40%
Five and C4 HD and the ITV channels all worked fine when watched using ProgDVB, a PC based program. The not-so-good news is that no channel was watchable using my Freesat box, despite showing 40% quality on the diagnostics screen. However, this morning (again cloudless skies) these F2 channels are all working fine with 50% quality on the Freesat box. I use a Satlook Lite device to align the dish, For the 10964H transponder I get 9.2dB for signal noise ratio and 7.2e-05 (i.e. about 50%) for bit error rate. For 11126V I get 8.9dB and 7.6e-05. Both readings done inside the house with a about 20 metres of cable from the dish.
To be honest, I was in a bit of a rush and might possibly be able to fine-tune the alignment a bit. That said, the Freesat box doesn't seem to be as sensitive as the USB Tevii device which is a bit disappointing. I think that the 110 offset dish is about a far as I can go for a rooftop installation, and in any case, up here in the north of Spain it seems quite difficult to get hold of anything bigger.
I am a bit puzzled why I can't lock onto the BBC HD test channels on 11023H. The Satook Lite shows that there is something there on the spectrum but won't lock onto the signal because it's not DVB-S2 prepared. The Tevii is, but I'm not getting anything on ProgFinder, or progDVB (both to be recommended BTW although I find Windows 7 Media Center works perfectly, which is just as well as perhaps in the future I will have to go back to using it).