Ragnarok
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- Joined
- Apr 7, 2009
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- Age
- 43
- My Satellite Setup
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Samsung SKY HD box
wintv nova-s2 tuner card+Pheonix & infinity USB unlimited
- My Location
- UK
I picked up a Channel master 1.2m last year with a bloody great pole that needs concreting in the ground. complete with polar mount and jack and loads of 4 core cable suitable for driving the motor. All I needed was a V-box to test it all about and it works which i also picked up. I just added a golden media 201+ LNB which I had alot of luck with on my other dish. when the weather is good it's hard to say if the Inverto black ultra is better, but when the rain comes down the Golden media holds on to the signal soo much better. Might even be the LNB cap sheding the rain better.
Safe to say the weather has been too crappy and cold to to consider concreting until just recently. I do have the original manual, which is helpful. I do have a digital spirit level/protractor and workbench which may be able to help keep it in place while the concrete goes off.
I just brought another one with dish, polar mount, and tripod. I set this up temporarily too see it in action and see it working and put on the jack and got it moving and working. and some nice signals too. I currently have it tracking 36w- 28e , briefly had some luck with 36 and 39E a touch high on elevation on the west side but nearly bang on, but tracking too low past 16e to the east about a db out on 23.5e. Still not bad for very little tweaking and the tripod isn't the most stable or adjustable. but it's only temporary and must be moved soon.
I'm not sure how much these dings will affect performance but the signals are decent. I might have to put the other dish face on and find out.
I've already routed all the cables I need. I have a spot picked out where it should be able to see the whole arc and not too far of both Horizons while be able to manage trees, bushes providing shelter without impacting performance and so the whole world can't see it. My receiver is a VU+ Solo 4k.
My questions are
I've not done alot of concreting, I have some ballast available, but probably not enough. I got some crazy quotes from Travis Perkins for post Crete bags. Whats the best way to go about concreteing in this pole?
I want to pain the dish face green/yellow to match the bushes, What paints should I be using?
How much of the arc should I be able to realistically track with the original channel master 6033 polar mount? I want to get 36w - 42e, I'm hoping 60W- 60E is possible, especially when i have the proper solid foundation in place.
Alignment strategy? It not like having Usals goto x for you nearest south satellite, then go set the latitude on the motor, align and your almost done. getting the east west setting accurate looks a royal pain in the butt, and the top latitude marking ( which i'm assuming controls declination) and a broad lines and doesn't look easy to fine the exact spot for my latitude and set it and assume it's dead right. it sounds like i'll be doing alot of trial an error.
I think
Always adjust elevation declanation on centre satellite 1w in my case.
1. If ether west or east is too high or adjust east and wast until they are ok or equally out. once this is right
2. if necessary Adjust declination on 1w again correct then with elevation. ( east and west sats the dish was pointing too low , declination was too high and vise versa) , then check the satellites on the east and west again.
repeat until accurate.
Much thanks guys
Safe to say the weather has been too crappy and cold to to consider concreting until just recently. I do have the original manual, which is helpful. I do have a digital spirit level/protractor and workbench which may be able to help keep it in place while the concrete goes off.
I just brought another one with dish, polar mount, and tripod. I set this up temporarily too see it in action and see it working and put on the jack and got it moving and working. and some nice signals too. I currently have it tracking 36w- 28e , briefly had some luck with 36 and 39E a touch high on elevation on the west side but nearly bang on, but tracking too low past 16e to the east about a db out on 23.5e. Still not bad for very little tweaking and the tripod isn't the most stable or adjustable. but it's only temporary and must be moved soon.
I'm not sure how much these dings will affect performance but the signals are decent. I might have to put the other dish face on and find out.
I've already routed all the cables I need. I have a spot picked out where it should be able to see the whole arc and not too far of both Horizons while be able to manage trees, bushes providing shelter without impacting performance and so the whole world can't see it. My receiver is a VU+ Solo 4k.
My questions are
I've not done alot of concreting, I have some ballast available, but probably not enough. I got some crazy quotes from Travis Perkins for post Crete bags. Whats the best way to go about concreteing in this pole?
I want to pain the dish face green/yellow to match the bushes, What paints should I be using?
How much of the arc should I be able to realistically track with the original channel master 6033 polar mount? I want to get 36w - 42e, I'm hoping 60W- 60E is possible, especially when i have the proper solid foundation in place.
Alignment strategy? It not like having Usals goto x for you nearest south satellite, then go set the latitude on the motor, align and your almost done. getting the east west setting accurate looks a royal pain in the butt, and the top latitude marking ( which i'm assuming controls declination) and a broad lines and doesn't look easy to fine the exact spot for my latitude and set it and assume it's dead right. it sounds like i'll be doing alot of trial an error.
I think
Always adjust elevation declanation on centre satellite 1w in my case.
1. If ether west or east is too high or adjust east and wast until they are ok or equally out. once this is right
2. if necessary Adjust declination on 1w again correct then with elevation. ( east and west sats the dish was pointing too low , declination was too high and vise versa) , then check the satellites on the east and west again.
repeat until accurate.
Much thanks guys
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