Setup help please

[Dogz11]

NO luck tonight...i'll have another bash tomorrow daytime. Cheers peeps i'll keep you posted. I'm not going to let this beat me.

 

[Topper]

NO luck tonight...i'll have another bash tomorrow daytime. Cheers peeps i'll keep you posted. I'm not going to let this beat me.

I think you had better do a screenshot of the channels you can get and tell us what you think they are for the sats you can get post them here for confirmation. I am not convinced you are looking at the sats you think you are

 

[satelliteman]

Thor is the top of your arc so you will have to alter the dish elevation to get it

Nice spot Topper

 

[Topper]

but the damn thing will not locate thor, its either 8 degrees or astra )(-red

There are 11 satellites between the two and if you cannot hit one of them it must be your elevation

 

[satelliteman]

.........Although all this is shown in the guides being directed to

 

[Channel Hopper]

Some success...
In case this helps others.... where i was going wrong

The problems seem to originate from being 10 degrees out despite using a rangefinder compass. Subsequent difficulties arose from trying to rotate the 90cm dish and motor around the pole which was too heavy to move smoothly in conjunction with using the meter on the reciever.


I am still 10 degrees out and i dont really know how i was that far out with the compass. The motor reads approx 3 when i am at 13 degrees. But i'll leave it at that till the missus goes on holiday so she has her foreign TV till then. Once she's gone i'll have another bash to get it all perfect.

Been away for a week, otherwise I might have been able to provide some input.

Magnetic pole variation means that you are quite close to the actual measurement if you had offset the compass

As a first-order approximation, the Earth's magnetic field can be modelled as a simple dipole (like a bar magnet), tilted about 11° with respect to the Earth's rotation axis (which defines the Geographic North and South Poles) and centered at the Earth's centre

 

[Dogz11]

O.K. bear with me...

I have at the moment THOR and a strong signal 90+ percent on both level and signal. The transponder is 12643 V, 27500 KabelKiosk. Bit concerned that this really is Thor most other channels are incl BBC world service are bad signal.

 

[Mickha]

There are a few Kabelkiosk I can find but they are on 8W, there are a few channels on 0.8W using 12643 V 27500 but they are part of Digi TV.
Please check these 2 links and see if any of your channels match up:
_http://www.lyngsat.com/8west.html
_http://www.lyngsat.com/1west.html
If not please try scanning the satellite you are currently on and post some more channel information.

 

[Dogz11]

yep i'm back at 8 west....booger

when i change the sat (with the motor turned off) to 8west i pick up the following

10972 France 24 & cnbc-us
11011 cnn
1256 jaras

 

[Dogz11]

GOT IT !!!!! Yessssss !!!!!

at last..

12607 digi
11403 lifestyle
11325 bbc
11166 gospel
11247 btv & vision norge

thankyou, thankyou, thankyou.....

roof bolts tighten quick

 

[Dogz11]

and ......

move to hotbird...yessss !

:-WooHoo

 

[rolfw]

Well done.

 

[satelliteman]

Well Done Dogz11, glad your up and running.

Satman

 

[Topper]

Hope the missus is pleased too HumpingHumping

Well done.......... you got there in the end, I suspect a couple of people will have to now dull the knives they had previously sharpened

 

[Dogz11]

What a nightmare it turned out to be....i'm very pleased i cracked it, wouldnt have done without everyones input. The set up guides make it sound sooo simple. Really isnt.

Todays and yesterdays fiasco was caused by my meter, whilst finding Hotbird and 8 West the signal level on the 753 meter went off the scale, so i reduced the sensitivity to fine tune the sats that i was able to get. That meant when searching for Thor it failed to register the thor signal, that coupled with the elevation of the dish being a little low and it all went haywire again for a while.

Meanwhile i look on the alsat website dish setup guide and see a nice big digital meter showing Thor in all its glory and start to wonder what that cost....i actually conceded this afternoon and booked a professional installer who's coming round on Monday, i'll be cancelling that appointment in the morning ...yippee

Now....who wants to talk about football, naughty bits, encryption and patches etc...

i'll go and digest a few threads first

 

[Dogz11]

By the way and i'll post this here so those of you that have been of help get first pick. Free to anyone who's prepared to collect (woking, surrey) a Humax IRCI 5400 receiver (locked up during HOT update 18 months ago, never tried to unlock it) an infinity programmer, a titanium card.

Any good to anyone or candidates for the bin ?