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Zone 2 dish located 40m away from house
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- Tavistock, Devon
Hi all - first post.
Due to new houses and very large trees the only place I can even see the horizon is about 40m from my house where two of the buildings and trees part enough to let me see though (see pic)
Anyway. To see if it was even possible to get a signal I purchase a zone 2 dish with a quad LNB and ran some cheap coax that I had in the garage to the dish mounted on a pole.
I used a sat meter to locate and fine tune and to my amazement I actually got a picture.
However while the quality was 90% the signal strength was between 0% and 20% depending on channel.
Nothing I did would improve this.
Having done some reading on the forum I am hoping this is due a combination of the cheap cable and the length of the run.
Below is what I was thinking of doing and I thought I would run it past you guys who have some real world experience with this first.
To combat the line length I was going to run 2 lines of WF125
There is already a waterproof junction box where the cables meet the house (house it run in WF100)
With the WF125 would it be worth installing an LNB amplifier at the junction box (is this the correct place to install?)
Any comments greatly appreciated.
Regards
Mike
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Due to new houses and very large trees the only place I can even see the horizon is about 40m from my house where two of the buildings and trees part enough to let me see though (see pic)
Anyway. To see if it was even possible to get a signal I purchase a zone 2 dish with a quad LNB and ran some cheap coax that I had in the garage to the dish mounted on a pole.
I used a sat meter to locate and fine tune and to my amazement I actually got a picture.
However while the quality was 90% the signal strength was between 0% and 20% depending on channel.
Nothing I did would improve this.
Having done some reading on the forum I am hoping this is due a combination of the cheap cable and the length of the run.
Below is what I was thinking of doing and I thought I would run it past you guys who have some real world experience with this first.
To combat the line length I was going to run 2 lines of WF125
There is already a waterproof junction box where the cables meet the house (house it run in WF100)
With the WF125 would it be worth installing an LNB amplifier at the junction box (is this the correct place to install?)
Any comments greatly appreciated.
Regards
Mike
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