Yorks
Mentally unstable.
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- My Satellite Setup
- Pretend to know what I'm doing. Only the clever ones rumble me.
- My Location
- S. Yorks
I have finally got around to doing my first ever installation.
I have a motorised 88cm dish on the back (installed by the local installer in April last year), but I can only get 45e to 8w due to neighbours house. (I asked them if they would convert their house into a bungalow but they declined).
So I thought the next best thing would be to put a dish up on the front to get Hispasat. I would never have dreamt of attempting this before joining this forum. I 've got all on putting an umbrella up on my own!
I found all the info I needed on this site by reading lots about other peoples experiences and recommendations, including favourite suppliers.
At the last Lidl 'Sat Bonanza', I dug deep and spent £22 on an 80cm dish, wall bracket and satfinder.
I bought 30 metres of PF100 (foam filled cable) from tlc-direct - it's quite a long way from the front of the house to the back far corner, and an Inverto 0.2LNB from Wizard Satellite (tenner delivered!) They actually sent a Lemon 0.2LNB, but I think they are the same company and the Lemon costs £2 more on the website. (We are talking Yorkshiremen and money here) - well chuffed!
I used Satlex Digital for setup info, and found Satcure's bit on how to fit an F connector very useful - yes we are talking complete Sat Bozo here.
I took an absolute age fitting the bracket (in between the raindrops), making sure I drilled the holes on template to get the pole vertical, although I know it's not critical on a static dish.
But once I'd done that (and it had stopped raining), the rest was a breeze. I had the inclination already set on the dish bracket (about 23 degrees according to Satlex).
I had the dish up, pointing in the general direction of where the sun is at 3pm BST (don't try this installation in the dark unless you have a compass and a miner's helmet) and hooked up my trusty Silvercrest satfinder - in anticipation.
I found a strong transponder from the list on this site, punched it into my receiver and had a signal more or less instantly, just by moving the dish a few degrees horizontally. (That squealing sound was music to my ears, until I realised the ladder was on the wife's foot).O-Ha
After no more than 10mins of careful adjustments, horizontal, vertical, skew, I had a Signal Level of 84% and Quality of 90% on my Fortec Star receiver. This is comparable to what I get on Hotbird with the 88cm dish, but I reckon I'm using a good 8-10 meters more of cable on this dish. Jobsagudden!
If I can do it then anyone can. Just do your homework first. All the info is here. I even played at fitting F connectors and tying the wife up with amalgamating tape! - I mean binding the joints with amalgamating tape before attempting the job. - No I wasn't in the boy scouts!
The only d.i.y. skills required were to drill four holes in a brick wall.
If anyone has read this far without slitting their wrists, you can put the knife down now!
Yorks
Pics 1,2,3 are Hispasat dish. Pic 4 motorised dish pointing at Hotbird with Lidl dish in the background. Nothing on wife and amalgamating tape yet.
I have a motorised 88cm dish on the back (installed by the local installer in April last year), but I can only get 45e to 8w due to neighbours house. (I asked them if they would convert their house into a bungalow but they declined).
So I thought the next best thing would be to put a dish up on the front to get Hispasat. I would never have dreamt of attempting this before joining this forum. I 've got all on putting an umbrella up on my own! I found all the info I needed on this site by reading lots about other peoples experiences and recommendations, including favourite suppliers.
At the last Lidl 'Sat Bonanza', I dug deep and spent £22 on an 80cm dish, wall bracket and satfinder.
I bought 30 metres of PF100 (foam filled cable) from tlc-direct - it's quite a long way from the front of the house to the back far corner, and an Inverto 0.2LNB from Wizard Satellite (tenner delivered!) They actually sent a Lemon 0.2LNB, but I think they are the same company and the Lemon costs £2 more on the website. (We are talking Yorkshiremen and money here) - well chuffed!
I used Satlex Digital for setup info, and found Satcure's bit on how to fit an F connector very useful - yes we are talking complete Sat Bozo here.
I took an absolute age fitting the bracket (in between the raindrops), making sure I drilled the holes on template to get the pole vertical, although I know it's not critical on a static dish.
But once I'd done that (and it had stopped raining), the rest was a breeze. I had the inclination already set on the dish bracket (about 23 degrees according to Satlex).
I had the dish up, pointing in the general direction of where the sun is at 3pm BST (don't try this installation in the dark unless you have a compass and a miner's helmet) and hooked up my trusty Silvercrest satfinder - in anticipation.
I found a strong transponder from the list on this site, punched it into my receiver and had a signal more or less instantly, just by moving the dish a few degrees horizontally. (That squealing sound was music to my ears, until I realised the ladder was on the wife's foot).O-Ha
After no more than 10mins of careful adjustments, horizontal, vertical, skew, I had a Signal Level of 84% and Quality of 90% on my Fortec Star receiver. This is comparable to what I get on Hotbird with the 88cm dish, but I reckon I'm using a good 8-10 meters more of cable on this dish. Jobsagudden!
If I can do it then anyone can. Just do your homework first. All the info is here. I even played at fitting F connectors and tying the wife up with amalgamating tape
! - I mean binding the joints with amalgamating tape before attempting the job. - No I wasn't in the boy scouts!The only d.i.y. skills required were to drill four holes in a brick wall.
If anyone has read this far without slitting their wrists, you can put the knife down now!
Yorks
Pics 1,2,3 are Hispasat dish. Pic 4 motorised dish pointing at Hotbird with Lidl dish in the background. Nothing on wife and amalgamating tape yet.
. arlreet. Top geeza.