Blah. Well, it's up... but there's a slight play in the top flanged bearing making the dish wobble, which makes tracking somewhat inaccurate. The dish landing position differs depending on whether I am driving the dish from the east or west. Annoying....
My current options are, I think, to either a) Loctite the flanged bearing, so that it's not loose or b) get eBay item 250799115961, which should fit the bracket hole snuggly. I am tempted to go for option b as it seems more solid than Loctiting, but then again, I never used Loctite, so I don't know if it will work loose in time anyway. Thoughts? Either way, I need to take the dish down in order to do the work, but hopefully won't need to mess around as much to align it back on track.
The arc I receive is 13E (just about lockable - house in the way) to 37.5W, beyond which I cannot find any usable signal, those 37.5W is booming in on 11684 V carrier. Can someone give me some definitely live and relatively strong frequencies further west? The next Ku band over Europe further west is on 45W and I am not getting anything from there.
Other interesting satellites:
5E - Astra 4A Nordic Beam: 70% SNR on 12054V and 11977V (around 50% from Penta)
1W - Thor/Intelsat: 73% C+ HD on 10934H (54% from Penta - broke up occasionally), 88% on C+ on 11278V (75% from Penta)
7W - AB7: 52% JSC Sports HD 1 on 12476V (41% fron Penta), 33% MBC on 11938V (only receivable in the evening on Penta)