Captain Jack
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Ooops... west indeed.
Tivù said:Fair enough if you're happy driving it. Once you've found 13E or 19E, use the "Network On" option as this will find a fair few more TPs for you and reduce the amount of manual editing needed.
Zero skew should be ok for acquisition, but a better compromise position would be for you to turn it to one or two o'clock as seen looking from LNB towards dish. ie F connector will be at seven or eight o'clock
KingofSat is fine.
hdp160 said:What do think is the weak link? the dish, the LNB, connectors/cable or the receiver.
BTW which receiver are you using?
rolfw said:The taller shape of the camping dish is the standard shape, most non Sky dishes are taller than they are wide.
I use one of these small dishes as a test dish, but the signal to noise ratio is always poor, even on relatively strong satellites.
Rolandh said:Most none sky dishes do at least look circular, the Konig one looks like a sky dish has been stood on its side, I've seen camping dishes that are circular.
If you can get 28E with the portable dish, lnb and cabling then that proves there is absolutely nothing wrong with the dish, lnb or cable. The problem can only be one of three thingsRolandh said:I'm using a Foxsat-HD, which picks up both 28e & 19e ok when using the Mini Dish, but once I add the portable dish I can only get 28e from the fixed dish. The Konig LNB & the supplied cable are fine as when I hold the LNB infront of the Mini Dish I can get 19e, so it's git to be the dish as with all the different positions I've had the dish I would have thought that it would have locked onto a signal.
According to the seller it's alignment that's at fault as the Dish, Cable & LNB apparently can't fail.
I think the shape of the dish has got something to do with it, I've never seen a Dish that is taller than it is wide before, so maybe the weird shape that Konig have gone with is making it impossible to get perfect alignment of the Dish.
Roland
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davemurgtroyd said:If you can get 28E with the portable dish, lnb and cabling then that proves there is absolutely nothing wrong with the dish, lnb or cable. The problem can only be one of three things
1 Your alignment which has to be within a degree or two - note also that the lnb needs to be more upright (less skew) than for 28 E (the smaller dish size would make this more critical)
2 Line of sight problem with the satellite - something in the way
3 The dish is too small for your location - unlikely as you can receive 28 E which has similar signal strength and you can receive 19E off focus on a Sky minidish.