N1501
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- My Satellite Setup
- Fracarro Penta 85 Brick Red Aluminium Dish,
Inverto Black Ultra 0.2 dB Single Output LNB,
TM-2600 Super H-H Motor,
Vu+ Duo DVB-S2 receiver,
Stock Vu+ image V7,
Labgear PF100 cable,
Atlanta ASF304+ Sat-Finder,
4:2:2 VLC / Ubuntu,
53E to 45W
- My Location
- 51.8ºN, 0.0ºW East Hertfordshire
Just got my first ever satellite pictures! Thanks mainly to advice I've followed on this forum!
As exciting as when I first saw colour trade test films ( The Weald of Kent ? ) on my parent's Baird 710 dual 625/405 receiver in 1967.
Went down this route after finding after Digital Switch Over we were only going to get Freeview Lite ( from relay ).
I have temporarily fixed my dish to a clothes line post which is far from vertical, in the back garden. I lined up the dish to 28.2E. Using a cheap £ 6 Atlanta ASF304+ satellite finder from World of Satellite. I managed to tune in 28.2E surprisingly quickly. Had to slightly tip the dish down to compensate for the tipping back of the cloths line. Got BBC1 and NHK World HD although don't have an HD telly.
Next I attached the motor now I knew the system worked. Pointed south using a Dishpointer landmark,
set the VU+ Duo to use positioner and entered my long & lat then manually
tuned into 0.8W Thor 5 BTV-1 Telenor 11247 V S1 24500 7/8 and after a little re-positioning got an animated colour-bar signal, getting SNR 83% and AGC 89%. Am using version 7.0 VU flash image. Curious thing is the Duo only shows Thor 2,3 (0.9W) in its selection menu.
Went on to get:
42E TV25 12588V 2260 5/6 67% SNR 84% AGC. If I 'pulled' lightly on the dish I could increase SNR to 73%
28.2E NHK World HD 11224 V 27500 2/3 SNR 79% AGC 97% Anime News item
13E Arte HD 11681 H 27500 S2 3/4
9E TF1 SUISSE 12034 V S2-8PSK 27500 3/4
5W France 2 22591 V 2000 2/3 Super Hero gets attacked in street.
30W HISPASAT High TV 10730 H 27500 3/4 S1 SNR 83% AGC 91% seemed to be showing some 3D magic show!
I was surprised I got this much with such a non-vertical pole!
Tried 40.5W NSS 816 3803 27500 3/4 L
Set to Left Circular but got nothing. Thought the frequency looked a bit low. Perhaps not compatible.
Haven't figured out how to add these channels to Favorites or how the channel numbers work. Just select the Satellites menu then select service then pick a channel. I prefer to enter them in manually as in auto I got 995 Channels just from 28.2E. Also, couldn't record onto a USB stick - which works fine playing back H.264 on the Duo.
There was a thing that said path /something/HDD. I suspect this needs to point to the USB key somehow. Did get the on-board browser to work once I'd connected the Duo
to my HP network switch-real pain without a QWERTY kb but don't initially intend to have it connected to the house network.
I've now taken it all down as its due to be put up properly on the front of the house.
As exciting as when I first saw colour trade test films ( The Weald of Kent ? ) on my parent's Baird 710 dual 625/405 receiver in 1967.
Went down this route after finding after Digital Switch Over we were only going to get Freeview Lite ( from relay ).
I have temporarily fixed my dish to a clothes line post which is far from vertical, in the back garden. I lined up the dish to 28.2E. Using a cheap £ 6 Atlanta ASF304+ satellite finder from World of Satellite. I managed to tune in 28.2E surprisingly quickly. Had to slightly tip the dish down to compensate for the tipping back of the cloths line. Got BBC1 and NHK World HD although don't have an HD telly.
Next I attached the motor now I knew the system worked. Pointed south using a Dishpointer landmark,
set the VU+ Duo to use positioner and entered my long & lat then manually
tuned into 0.8W Thor 5 BTV-1 Telenor 11247 V S1 24500 7/8 and after a little re-positioning got an animated colour-bar signal, getting SNR 83% and AGC 89%. Am using version 7.0 VU flash image. Curious thing is the Duo only shows Thor 2,3 (0.9W) in its selection menu.
Went on to get:
42E TV25 12588V 2260 5/6 67% SNR 84% AGC. If I 'pulled' lightly on the dish I could increase SNR to 73%
28.2E NHK World HD 11224 V 27500 2/3 SNR 79% AGC 97% Anime News item
13E Arte HD 11681 H 27500 S2 3/4
9E TF1 SUISSE 12034 V S2-8PSK 27500 3/4
5W France 2 22591 V 2000 2/3 Super Hero gets attacked in street.
30W HISPASAT High TV 10730 H 27500 3/4 S1 SNR 83% AGC 91% seemed to be showing some 3D magic show!
I was surprised I got this much with such a non-vertical pole!
Tried 40.5W NSS 816 3803 27500 3/4 L
Set to Left Circular but got nothing. Thought the frequency looked a bit low. Perhaps not compatible.
Haven't figured out how to add these channels to Favorites or how the channel numbers work. Just select the Satellites menu then select service then pick a channel. I prefer to enter them in manually as in auto I got 995 Channels just from 28.2E. Also, couldn't record onto a USB stick - which works fine playing back H.264 on the Duo.
There was a thing that said path /something/HDD. I suspect this needs to point to the USB key somehow. Did get the on-board browser to work once I'd connected the Duo
to my HP network switch-real pain without a QWERTY kb but don't initially intend to have it connected to the house network.
I've now taken it all down as its due to be put up properly on the front of the house.
