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North West Spain - Maximising Performance of my Installation
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<blockquote data-quote="archive10" data-source="post: 940663"><p>I think your installation should be just fine.</p><p>From your pics, the dish is clearly either a Tecatal copy or a re-branded Prodelin 118x dish.</p><p>Those are very good. if mounting bracket is good too, you should not need re-alignment.</p><p>As others have said above, the 28.2E is in the right position.</p><p>Do get someone with a meter or, slightly more cumbersome, a phone-link to the someone watching the TV, to help you maximise skew of the LNB.</p><p>This is very important for getting the last few % out of the installation.</p><p>My sharp quad performs almost as well sa the Inverto Black Ultras, but has lower output.</p><p>So unless your are signal-strength challenged, you should be fine.</p><p></p><p>The main thing to consider is that the Astra 2E channels are now at 28.5E.</p><p>This means less if you are on a 60cm dish in berkshire, but a lot if you are on the fringe (say, in Spain).</p><p>The larger and more precise your dish, the more the alignment matters in this respect.</p><p>I have an equivalent Channel Master 180 on the fringe in Denmark, and alignment matters a lot now!</p><p></p><p>So either live with the alignment as-is, but possibly optimizing skew.</p><p>One possibility is to update LNB to IBUx, to make sure you have new LNB (these things wear out, sometimes just over a period of a few years).</p><p>Else get an installer with a meter, and who knows what he's doing to get the best compromise between 2E/2G... (if they don't know what this means, they are not qualified).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="archive10, post: 940663"] I think your installation should be just fine. From your pics, the dish is clearly either a Tecatal copy or a re-branded Prodelin 118x dish. Those are very good. if mounting bracket is good too, you should not need re-alignment. As others have said above, the 28.2E is in the right position. Do get someone with a meter or, slightly more cumbersome, a phone-link to the someone watching the TV, to help you maximise skew of the LNB. This is very important for getting the last few % out of the installation. My sharp quad performs almost as well sa the Inverto Black Ultras, but has lower output. So unless your are signal-strength challenged, you should be fine. The main thing to consider is that the Astra 2E channels are now at 28.5E. This means less if you are on a 60cm dish in berkshire, but a lot if you are on the fringe (say, in Spain). The larger and more precise your dish, the more the alignment matters in this respect. I have an equivalent Channel Master 180 on the fringe in Denmark, and alignment matters a lot now! So either live with the alignment as-is, but possibly optimizing skew. One possibility is to update LNB to IBUx, to make sure you have new LNB (these things wear out, sometimes just over a period of a few years). Else get an installer with a meter, and who knows what he's doing to get the best compromise between 2E/2G... (if they don't know what this means, they are not qualified). [/QUOTE]
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