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Reception of Badr4 (26E)
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<blockquote data-quote="far78" data-source="post: 919056" data-attributes="member: 377400"><p>Just an update on this. After a sobering chat with a local installer about how much it would cost to start from scratch, I sat down this evening and checked all satellite postitions again and, once again, more or less all were as they should be <em>however</em> I found out that nudging west made a big difference to some feeds on 10E so decided to repeat this on 26E and its back. The motor definitely does have a huge amount of backlash though - on the MBC transponders for instance, driving to it from the west results in 86% signal quality; driving from the east results in 56% quality! The motor's given me nearly 3 years faithful service to am wondering do I stick with it now and see if shifting positions fixes it or bite the bullet and go for a replacement motor and install - its far too high for me to deal with myself sadly <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/sad.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Sad :(" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="far78, post: 919056, member: 377400"] Just an update on this. After a sobering chat with a local installer about how much it would cost to start from scratch, I sat down this evening and checked all satellite postitions again and, once again, more or less all were as they should be [I]however[/I] I found out that nudging west made a big difference to some feeds on 10E so decided to repeat this on 26E and its back. The motor definitely does have a huge amount of backlash though - on the MBC transponders for instance, driving to it from the west results in 86% signal quality; driving from the east results in 56% quality! The motor's given me nearly 3 years faithful service to am wondering do I stick with it now and see if shifting positions fixes it or bite the bullet and go for a replacement motor and install - its far too high for me to deal with myself sadly :( [/QUOTE]
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