My current Fibo setup

[CROSSBONES]

Think im going to have to get one for my 1.2 Greg! Some nice pics there guys!

 

[Channel Hopper]

Less noise?
Thanks for the tip mate, i have been struggling this problem for a long time.

Cheapest cure for noise is

Fine sand in the main post, and
Spray foam filler for blocking holes in walls (the pressurised stuff that gets everywhere and won't come off flesh) liberally applied to the outer rim of the dish.

 

[dago]

glad to see you to the pictures in the summer!
nice set up mate.
regards.

 

[Likvid]

Thanks, i will post nicer pics when i get the new camera.

The above pics doesn't do justice at all.

 

[johnsattuk]

Cheapest cure for noise is

Fine sand in the main post, and
Spray foam filler for blocking holes in walls (the pressurised stuff that gets everywhere and won't come off flesh) liberally applied to the outer rim of the dish.

Not used foam myself, sounds quick and easy.

Any thing that will stop the dish from 'ringing' is good for reducing the noise, I have remounted the dish support plate using a polyurathane adhesive as is used to mount windscreens, and am going to spray the back of the dish with sound deadening underseal. I have done this on other dishes and seems to make quite a difference, not done any scientific measurements though.

 

[johnsattuk]

Thanks, i will post nicer pics when i get the new camera.

The above pics doesn't do justice at all.

Is 'No news, Good news'

 

[Likvid]

Is 'No news, Good news'

I got my camera today so i will post some pics during the day

 

[Likvid]

Here it is my new setup, enjoy.

 

[johnsattuk]

Very nice setup, pics were worth waiting for. :-thumb1

 

[dago]

nice one m8, be lucky.

regards.

 

[CROSSBONES]

Excellent neat and tidy job Likvid!

I am going to get a 1224 for my c/master 1.8m

 

[DSM]

I can understand the fine sand bit but why would you apply expanding foam to the satellite dishes edge?

 

[johnsattuk]

I can understand the fine sand bit but why would you apply expanding foam to the satellite dishes edge?

The motor driving the dish has a multistage simple gearbox, which conseqently generates a variety of freqencies/vibrations.

It is likely that one or more of these freqencies excite the resonent freqency of the dish, and are amplified considerably. If you hold the bare motor in your hand, or resting on the carpet or similar, they do not make much noise in themselves, the dish and the mount amplifies this noise.

The edge of the excited dish will likely have the greatest amplitude and will be most effected by any means applied to dampen it's resonance. I have used various materials on dishes, underseal, damping pads as used on cars. but have not tried foam as yet, because it had not occured to me.

The foam seems like a good idea, because it is quick, easy and cheapish, and sticks like the proverbial, I shall be trying this out in the near future. I will probably foam the whole of the back of the dish.

 

[Likvid]

Here is some more pictures to proove the kinda of performance i get out of my system.

These pictures was taken at around 4:00PM today, you can see clearly that i pull in both the horisontal and vertical transponders on Astra 2D.

You can also see that i can receive Showtime on Nilesat 7.0W and that i can receiver AMOS 4.0W.

The system performs to the max, took a long time to evaluate which parts worked best together and this is the result, i must say it's amazing for this kind of size of dish, it's really making magic.

I also noted that my older motor the Moteck SG2100A was introducing higher BER rates on weak signals, with the V-BOX II i doesn't get any performance hit by going thru the box comparing to connect the cable straight to the LNB.

Enjoy.

 

[wod]

quality install you got there and bound to get good results as the dish looks to be very well made. can you still buy them new ?

 

[CROSSBONES]

* Wod

No you cant buy the fibos new any longer, nor spare parts. Thats why there are so many threads on fibo mount mods. Why they have such a shit mount on a great dish like this beats me!

A 90cm fibo sold on e-bay for 20 quid last week. I nearly bid for it, but there was a small dent the size of a 10p on the dish face.

 

[Likvid]

Here are some more pics receivable on my system.

Samples from MBC2, MBC4, Melody Arabia from Nilesat 7.0W

Sky Italia which is strong as usual from Hotbird 13.0E

Canal+ which is very strong here, 45cm is enough, from Thor 1.0W

and some more pics.....

 

[wod]

very nice , i like that receiver you got there relook i guess ?

 

[Likvid]

very nice , i like that receiver you got there relook i guess ?

Yes Relook 400s running SF Team Enigma, best image for Relook.

Best software combined with the best receiver on the market.

 

[johnsattuk]

* Wod

No you cant buy the fibos new any longer, nor spare parts. Thats why there are so many threads on fibo mount mods. Why they have such a shit mount on a great dish like this beats me!

A 90cm fibo sold on e-bay for 20 quid last week. I nearly bid for it, but there was a small dent the size of a 10p on the dish face.

I missed that one !

I do have a couple of spare motors if anybody needs one. The dishes are made of fairly thick, but soft aluminium ,and small dents can be planished out quite easily.