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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
C-Band Reception, UK and Europe
C-Band with a Fortec 2.4m dish.
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<blockquote data-quote="foxcube" data-source="post: 1053978" data-attributes="member: 410901"><p>The local amateur radio club has acquired a Fortec 2.4m dish which will eventually be used to transmit 2.4GHz up to the amateur TV transponder on Es'Hail-2 at 25.5E, when it eventually goes up. </p><p></p><p>I've read the threads about the dish and the good and bad things about it. </p><p></p><p>C-band reception should give the opportunity to get the dish geometry correct and verify that its performance is reasonable. I've done a fair bit of satellite receiving on Ku band over the years, but C-band is new to me.</p><p></p><p>I couldn't resist having a quick try of the dish with a C1W-PLL before tweaking it and managed to receive a couple of transponders on 10E. Lyngsat suggests that a 1.25m dish should receive the 40dBW strength in NW UK, so obviously there's plenty of improvement to be made. The LNB clearly wasn't pointing at the middle of the dish. Should I be able to get everything at 10E with 2.4m eventually?</p><p></p><p>I have a clear view of anything east of 10E. Is there a better satellite that I could use as a yardstick, where I should get some transponders but not others? I'm using an amateur radio designed MiniTiouner receiver, which is optimised for the low (< 1000) symbol rates that amateurs can go down to. This gives an accurate readout of received strength in dBm, amongst other things. <a href="https://wiki.batc.org.uk/MiniTioune" target="_blank">MiniTioune - BATC Wiki</a></p><p></p><p>TIA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="foxcube, post: 1053978, member: 410901"] The local amateur radio club has acquired a Fortec 2.4m dish which will eventually be used to transmit 2.4GHz up to the amateur TV transponder on Es'Hail-2 at 25.5E, when it eventually goes up. I've read the threads about the dish and the good and bad things about it. C-band reception should give the opportunity to get the dish geometry correct and verify that its performance is reasonable. I've done a fair bit of satellite receiving on Ku band over the years, but C-band is new to me. I couldn't resist having a quick try of the dish with a C1W-PLL before tweaking it and managed to receive a couple of transponders on 10E. Lyngsat suggests that a 1.25m dish should receive the 40dBW strength in NW UK, so obviously there's plenty of improvement to be made. The LNB clearly wasn't pointing at the middle of the dish. Should I be able to get everything at 10E with 2.4m eventually? I have a clear view of anything east of 10E. Is there a better satellite that I could use as a yardstick, where I should get some transponders but not others? I'm using an amateur radio designed MiniTiouner receiver, which is optimised for the low (< 1000) symbol rates that amateurs can go down to. This gives an accurate readout of received strength in dBm, amongst other things. [URL="https://wiki.batc.org.uk/MiniTioune"]MiniTioune - BATC Wiki[/URL] TIA [/QUOTE]
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