D4ftpunk
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- My Satellite Setup
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Dreambox 7020
Dreambox DM500
Sky Thomsom Digibox
StrongSat FTA Reciever
80cm Dish + 45cm Dish via Disecq A/B.
- My Location
- England
Firstly, thanks everyone for your help recently usual suspects; it started with re-aligning an old Sky dish to 13.0E, moved onto a multi dish setup, then to a "MULTYTENNE quad LNB mini dish" and now I've added a motorised 65cm/70cm square dish (Technisat) into the mix (largest I can fit into the constraints of my roof unfortunately.
With that, I managed to setup the dish without much drama. Started with true-south, setup the latitude alignment on the mount; made sure everything was dead on, 0 skew on LNB. No signal, then calibrated it and got a decent fix on Astra 2 (98%) then assumed everything else would be fine. On the basis of that assumption; did some scans, picked up quite a bit and was pleased... However I have a few questions before I tinker further...
- What are the East/West limits I should expect with such a setup? (for example, I cannot get 53.0E Express AM6, but at the same time didn't really expect to with such sized dish.)
- Should I expect to be able to fix on any satellite within those limits, or does it depend on their footprints?
- If I have a great fix on what I calibrated it to (Astra 2) can I assume everything else will fall in? or should I pick something and fine tune further?
- Anyone recommend some decent / interesting sats or frequencies to play with?
P.S. yes I know the L bracket I have is rubbish, but I needed something very very low profile from the wall to stop the LNB hitting the nearby panels.
With that, I managed to setup the dish without much drama. Started with true-south, setup the latitude alignment on the mount; made sure everything was dead on, 0 skew on LNB. No signal, then calibrated it and got a decent fix on Astra 2 (98%) then assumed everything else would be fine. On the basis of that assumption; did some scans, picked up quite a bit and was pleased... However I have a few questions before I tinker further...
- What are the East/West limits I should expect with such a setup? (for example, I cannot get 53.0E Express AM6, but at the same time didn't really expect to with such sized dish.)
- Should I expect to be able to fix on any satellite within those limits, or does it depend on their footprints?
- If I have a great fix on what I calibrated it to (Astra 2) can I assume everything else will fall in? or should I pick something and fine tune further?
- Anyone recommend some decent / interesting sats or frequencies to play with?
P.S. yes I know the L bracket I have is rubbish, but I needed something very very low profile from the wall to stop the LNB hitting the nearby panels.