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Sky & Freesat fringe reception
Sat Meter, better LNB, better dish?
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<blockquote data-quote="Huevos" data-source="post: 639583" data-attributes="member: 301161"><p>What do you mean are you on the wrong beam? A beam from a satellite is like the beam of a torch. If you are not under the beam there is nothing you can do bar carrying your house until you are under it. </p><p></p><p>The output of a transponder (in the case of digital TV) is one data stream. Astra 2 has 56 of them and each one carries several channels.</p><p></p><p>If you are trying to align the satellite dish using a TV and Digibox you are wasting your time as this method will never get it right. In the old days of analogue you just aligned for best picture. Now there is digital you either have a perfect picture or nothing. On the threshold between the two there is pixelization. When you have a picture there is no way to know how much above the threshold you are so you can never maximize the dish. To do things properly you need a professional meter that at least displays signal to noise ratio and BER (like the one Satelliteman posted about above).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Huevos, post: 639583, member: 301161"] What do you mean are you on the wrong beam? A beam from a satellite is like the beam of a torch. If you are not under the beam there is nothing you can do bar carrying your house until you are under it. The output of a transponder (in the case of digital TV) is one data stream. Astra 2 has 56 of them and each one carries several channels. If you are trying to align the satellite dish using a TV and Digibox you are wasting your time as this method will never get it right. In the old days of analogue you just aligned for best picture. Now there is digital you either have a perfect picture or nothing. On the threshold between the two there is pixelization. When you have a picture there is no way to know how much above the threshold you are so you can never maximize the dish. To do things properly you need a professional meter that at least displays signal to noise ratio and BER (like the one Satelliteman posted about above). [/QUOTE]
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