Nelbert
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- My Satellite Setup
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Fracarro Penta 85
Cuberevo DVB-S2/T
TM-6800HD
TM-2600 Motor
- My Location
- Tyne and Wear
After eventually receiving a dish without bends or dents, I got it put up yesterday. I'd read the guide for a motor dish setup and didn't see any major problems.
All was going well until I tried to align on Thor, I'm at 55.0 Lat and 1.5 W. Try as I might there was nothing there. I rechecked the pole (as it's 2.7M pole on 2 Ks with the sat up the pole) , rechecked the motor lat and dish elevation. Using dish pointer was pointing where I expected to find south/thor, and the receiver method for finding the sat but still got nothing
With the dark nights coming earlier I had to give up trying to align and call it a night. I went out and tightened everything up, then cleared away all the ladders.
It had all gone so well, should have known it was too good to be true.
Out of paranoia, in case the winds came up, I used the receiver to set the dish to Astra 28.2 so it would be parallel to the rear wall. Then the signal meter lit up with a quality of 68%. Tried a few sats and got Astra 28.2, Hotbird 13, Sirus 4E and even Hipsat in the west :-jumpsmile
Turns out I had the dish and motor in almost the right place. With some fine tuning today I got Thor no problem with 85% Signal and Quality. It was the tiniest of movements (less than 1 receiver motor step east and a tiny amount of elevation) This threw all the signal strengths on the other sats upto around 85%.
Even managed to pull some signals from Arabsat/Badr but probably not watchable for the most part.
I'm guessing there is still some tweaking as 80-85% quality on Astra 28.2E seems low for a Penta 85 (or maybe I expect too much) but for now we have some Russian Channels :-righton
All was going well until I tried to align on Thor, I'm at 55.0 Lat and 1.5 W. Try as I might there was nothing there. I rechecked the pole (as it's 2.7M pole on 2 Ks with the sat up the pole) , rechecked the motor lat and dish elevation. Using dish pointer was pointing where I expected to find south/thor, and the receiver method for finding the sat but still got nothing
With the dark nights coming earlier I had to give up trying to align and call it a night. I went out and tightened everything up, then cleared away all the ladders.
It had all gone so well, should have known it was too good to be true.Out of paranoia, in case the winds came up, I used the receiver to set the dish to Astra 28.2 so it would be parallel to the rear wall. Then the signal meter lit up with a quality of 68%. Tried a few sats and got Astra 28.2, Hotbird 13, Sirus 4E and even Hipsat in the west :-jumpsmile
Turns out I had the dish and motor in almost the right place. With some fine tuning today I got Thor no problem with 85% Signal and Quality. It was the tiniest of movements (less than 1 receiver motor step east and a tiny amount of elevation) This threw all the signal strengths on the other sats upto around 85%.
Even managed to pull some signals from Arabsat/Badr but probably not watchable for the most part.
I'm guessing there is still some tweaking as 80-85% quality on Astra 28.2E seems low for a Penta 85 (or maybe I expect too much) but for now we have some Russian Channels :-righton
The mistake many make when trying to find 1W, is using a very weak transponder frequency on the receiver, often the first few frequencies in the 1W transponder list are feed frequencies, with no permanent transmissions. I always use 11325H BBC World News.
