MBC on 26e

[dvmedia]

I'm near London and have a motorised 1 meter dish, which gets a solid 65% quality signal from Badr-4.

However no MBC..!!!

Any tips? Judging by other posts around here and other forums, I *should* be able to get it!!

 

[satelliteman]

Very fine alignment and may not with an Orbital, lol

Tp11 from Astra 28°e and from Astra1G 23.5°e share the same or similar frequencies and can kill Mbc on some dish set ups.

 

[Robbo]

You should be able to get the MBC's. I have them on a temporary 80cm that I have in my garden.

I also have an orbital 1m, I'll give it a go on that later, if I get time. If I can't get it here, you probably won't get it there (with the same dish).

Also I have found that if you fine tune the dish on 12182H, the MBCs are not normally that far off. The LNB used can be critical on some dishes though.

11919H is a bit tricky as it is also used on 28E.

 

[dvmedia]

Very fine alignment and may not with an Orbital, lol

Tp11 from Astra 28°e and from Astra1G 23.5°e share the same or similar frequencies and can kill Mbc on some dish set ups.

Diamond mate!

Aligning to 26.2e picks up MBC (admittedly with a terrible signal)

Aligning to 25.9e picks up loads of leakage from 23.5e

 

[dvmedia]

You should be able to get the MBC's. I have them on a temporary 80cm that I have in my garden.

I also have an orbital 1m, I'll give it a go on that later, if I get time. If I can't get it here, you probably won't get it there (with the same dish).

Also I have found that if you fine tune the dish on 12182H, the MBCs are not normally that far off. The LNB used can be critical on some dishes though.

11919H is a bit tricky as it is also used on 28E.

I have JUST about managed to pick up MBC by moving between 26.1-26.3e

Although it's not really watchable It's extreme fringe being 46% quality with rather a lot of pixellation.

 

[Robbo]

Once you get the best spot on the motor , 26.2E ??

just very gently push on the top or the bottom of the dish to see if you can get it any better. Also fiddle with the LNB a bit, push it in and out of holder.

Try a different LNB maybe.

 

[satelliteman]

Although... I wouldn't fiddle too much given C/Hopper set it up with a pro meter. Those Orbital 1M dishes can perform as good as other 80cm.

 

[Robbo]

Mark it first, both the skew and position.

 

[woborny]

What is Nilesat reception like in the UK? if it is good you could try then instead of Arabsat. They have MBCs on there also!

 

[Robbo]

An Orbital 1m won't get the MBCs from nilesat near London. Tis not a brilliant dish.

 

[satelliteman]

You get it on the Td110 though don't you Robbo?

 

[Robbo]

Yes, of course, and on 26E.;) 24/7, as long as it doesn't rain.

 

[Robbo]

Ok, just did a quick check on 11919H (MBC transponder on 26E), got it no problem with the 1m orbital dish fitted with an Inverto Silvertech single LNB.

Fairly strong signal too, for that transponder.

 

[dvmedia]

Okay.. after an afternoon of fun fringe reception...!!

I got all the MBC channels from 26e in the end with 58% quality (good enough unless it rains!) I managed this by positioning to 26.2e.

Eventually, I got literally a couple of transponders from Nilesat, by positioning to 6.8w. I had a handful of channels at 45% quality (breaking up), but in the last hour they have disappeared completely, and all I can get is channel names now! There is SHED loads of 8w leakage...

Adrenalin pumping stuff this ;)

 

[Ratchet]

I live a lot further north and have a smaller dish (89cm x 80cm) and can get the MBC channels in good weather. It took weeks of fiddling with focal length to get it right though.

 

[A nonymous]

An Orbital 1m won't get the MBCs from nilesat near London. Tis not a brilliant dish.

All depends on who sets it up

I can get some7w transponders on mine but only with a lot of messing about, i don't think its really worth the time IMHO unless you like these channels

I can also get MBC on 26e although the signal is not that good with quite high BER readings

:-beer

Nano

 

[bigtee]

Yep, at my location very very near (you) Robbo, I can get the Nilesat 7w MBCs (11938?) on my 1m Orbital about 75-80% of the time and with some just still usable breaking the rest of the time.

What I have found is that where the dish elevation (declination) has to be is extremely crucial on that dish for Nilesat; the minutest fraction away from that position could mean no reception on the weakest V transponders, the absolute weakest being 11900V.


By the way, I wanted to add that on a good day lately I can get two H transponders i.e. 12226 and 12303.

 

[Robbo]

Damn, that means I 'll have to try harder.It was a while back when I last tried, got the stronger TPs very easily though. My 90cm Fibo and Triax 110 get the MBCs on 7W easily though, even with a bit of spitting in the wind.
11919H is another stonger H. I had that before, but right now, just getting a bit of sound.

 

[thecaretaker]

Can I really thank you guys & Gals. I didn't know I could get anything on 7W until I read this thread. :-rock

I can get all the Nilesat 101/102 'V' tps but just 1 'H' pol using my Fracarro Penta 85cm (60 miles south of london - 1066 country).

MBC on 7W I'm getting 89% strength 47% quality

As for MBC on 26E, I have no problems here. 91% strength 64% quality on 11.919H

Thanks again folks! I'm well please, that's an extra 140 channels I didn't know I could get.

PS: I'm getting a channel labelled 'HD' on 7w 12.015 49% quality but no picture on this one. It says it is Mpeg4 on sat lists. Anybody get this one, maybe I just haven't enough signal quality to show it.

 

[Robbo]

PS: I'm getting a channel labelled 'HD' on 7w 12.015 49% quality but no picture on this one. It says it is Mpeg4 on sat lists. Anybody get this one, maybe I just haven't enough signal quality to show it.

Yes, I'm getting it too, quality looks sufficient, but just getting blank picture.

It might be a recever issue, because it is not DVB-S2, or there might just not be a picture.