Satellie instalation problem

[townni]

I have just recentley tried to install a motorised satellite and have a few questions.

I found thor 1 and got 80% quality on bbc world the highest i could get but when moving to other satellites i can not always get all the availible channels and some of the satellites.
Here is the list of availible satellites and average strength of the satellites

Telecom 8w 80%
nilesat 7w 0%
Atlantic 5w 94%
Amos 4w 0%
thor 0.1w 80%
sirius 4.8e 86%
eutelsat 7e 92%
eutel sat 10e 70%
hotbird 13e 90%
eutel sat 16e 76%
astra 1 19.e 96%
astra 23.5e 84%
badr 26.e 0%
astra 2 28.2e 60%
Anything further east or west just shows as 0%

Im using a 80cm dish and live at Longitude: -2.0876°
Is this the best signal i should expect or do you feel that i should pick up anymore satellites many thanks

 

[satelliteman]

Hi,

With your location and dish used, the satellites listed below I beleive will show no signal.

Nilesat 7w 0%
Amos 4w 0%
Badr 26.e 0%

Should get beyond 28e and 8w so possibly a dish set up issue.

Check the following:
pole, should be dead plumb in all directions.
Motor scale on motor

Did you send the dish to reference satellite prior to alignment?

SM

 

[townni]

it was is striaght and i did send to reference by following excelent guide on this site. ill keep playin with it at least im not going mad trying to satellites i can get or i would of prob rip all of the very small amount of hair off of my head LOL. There is a house next to me that may be blocking anyhting further west as it appeas the dish would be slightly blocked by there house. many thanks

 

[satelliteman]

Ok West covered but should get 33e, 36e, 39e and 42e for example if you have a clear line of sight.

What dish and motor are you using?

 

[townni]

its a Technomate TM-2200 motor and a faval 80cm dish

 

[batistawhc]

Go to dishpointer.com and put in your postcode, and click all dishes for your location - this will give you a rough guide to what birds you can and cant pick up.

However if you get 0.8w (thor) you should be on the arc and pick up 30w and 42e easy

 

[bigtee]

Also, when you motor the dish to a particular satellite the initial signal reading that you get will probably be for the receiver's default transponder for the particular satellite. It may be worth something checking signal strength/quality of a number of transponders on each satellite.