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<blockquote data-quote="TheToad" data-source="post: 799290" data-attributes="member: 341436"><p>Hi again all, sorry for the delay, not much time for dish play with my young family and the wet weather.</p><p>Looking at my dish it was clearly warped, I could see quite a ridge around where the dish meets the mount and the circumference was dented like,, er, a dented thing.</p><p>So, I took a hammer to it today! done the best I can to get it back into a decent dish shape, strung it up to check it was true-ish and made a few measurement to make sure the strings crossed exactly in the middle. I also use the formula to check the focal point and confirmed the feedhorn is bang on the focal point and also checked that it's pointing directly at the centre.</p><p>I do have a _slightly_ better signal on Amos 2 and got a slightly un-lockable signal on 11389 on Amos 3, but still not enough to catch a channel properly put only about 10% out on quality compared to Zorch's readings. Could it be that my receiver simply isn't sensitive enough or clever enough to lock a signal?</p><p></p><p>I am also tempted to buy an undamaged 1.2m dish and see what happens. </p><p></p><p>As far as my setup, It's a 1.5m prime focus motorised dish to a "Digital 800" receiver (german brand I believe - that I picked up in Poland). I've not recommented the motor control yet as we're just concentrating on Amos. </p><p>We also have a DISEQ switch linked to a sky minidish for the UK channels and a 90cm offset dish for Polish (hotbird/astra). The cable run to the big dish is really quite long and the cable not to good, but saying that, I dont get any higher signal by linking the receiver to the dish with just 4m of cable out in the garden.</p><p></p><p>thanks again for all the assistance.</p><p></p><p>T</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheToad, post: 799290, member: 341436"] Hi again all, sorry for the delay, not much time for dish play with my young family and the wet weather. Looking at my dish it was clearly warped, I could see quite a ridge around where the dish meets the mount and the circumference was dented like,, er, a dented thing. So, I took a hammer to it today! done the best I can to get it back into a decent dish shape, strung it up to check it was true-ish and made a few measurement to make sure the strings crossed exactly in the middle. I also use the formula to check the focal point and confirmed the feedhorn is bang on the focal point and also checked that it's pointing directly at the centre. I do have a _slightly_ better signal on Amos 2 and got a slightly un-lockable signal on 11389 on Amos 3, but still not enough to catch a channel properly put only about 10% out on quality compared to Zorch's readings. Could it be that my receiver simply isn't sensitive enough or clever enough to lock a signal? I am also tempted to buy an undamaged 1.2m dish and see what happens. As far as my setup, It's a 1.5m prime focus motorised dish to a "Digital 800" receiver (german brand I believe - that I picked up in Poland). I've not recommented the motor control yet as we're just concentrating on Amos. We also have a DISEQ switch linked to a sky minidish for the UK channels and a 90cm offset dish for Polish (hotbird/astra). The cable run to the big dish is really quite long and the cable not to good, but saying that, I dont get any higher signal by linking the receiver to the dish with just 4m of cable out in the garden. thanks again for all the assistance. T [/QUOTE]
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