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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
Toroidal 90Cm- 19E to 30W possible?
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<blockquote data-quote="barrykap" data-source="post: 45394" data-attributes="member: 179845"><p>Hi friends,</p><p></p><p>I also have just bought a T90 toroidal but can't get a decent signal at all on it. I am in England, located at 53.1N, 2.17W. I have assembled the dish in accordance with the supplied instructions and using the Blackburn Skew angle chart as downloaded from multilnbdish site, which is pretty close to where I am. I intend to use four LNBs for; Astra2 (28E), Astra 1 (19E), Hotbird (13E) and Sirius (5E), all of which should be easily obtainable with the T90 from my location. I set up the LNBs with Hotbird being the central zero point and positioned the other three according to the chart info.</p><p></p><p>I then positioned the dish as high as I could on the wall of my bungalow, which faces almost due South. I already had two other 80CM dishes but I replaced the higher one with the T90 and left the lower one in place. To my amazement the new T90 fails to bring in hardly anything from the prime satellite, Hotbird. On a digital receiver the signal strength figure (using a Humax 5100 ST<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /> says 58% signal strength and ZERO signal quality. I also connected an analogue receiver to the same LNB and this brought in a limited analogue signal with spaklies abound. I was very surprised as my other (lower positioned) dish, which was a 80CM one brings in 58% signal strength and 86% signal quality. The other dish I have removed now was a motorised one and this brought in 100% signal quality. I would have thought the T90, being in the same place as the motorised dish, would equal this. I have adjusted the dish many times and this is definitely the optimum signal I can get with it.</p><p></p><p>The only possible thing I can think of that might be the problem, is I have a tall hedge which is about ten feet high and about 12 ft from the dish. The top of the T90 dish is about 18 inches above the top of the hedge if a line is taken horizontally. I have some small pictures here if anyone would like to help and wished to see them I can e-mail them over. Looking at the overall appearance of things the T90 seems to require a lower aproach angle as the dish is apparantly pointing down rather than upwards(!). Is there any possibility this is the problem and the signal path is too low thus hitting the hedge now? I realise the angle wto teh sat will eb teh same but if the signal point on the dish itself is very low down now it could be why the hedge is now getting in the way. I cannot really belive though that the T90, positioned higher up than the other dish is not receiving the same or better signals as the lower dish.</p><p></p><p>If anyone can help I would be most grateful.</p><p></p><p>Many thanks.</p><p></p><p>Barrykap</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barrykap, post: 45394, member: 179845"] Hi friends, I also have just bought a T90 toroidal but can't get a decent signal at all on it. I am in England, located at 53.1N, 2.17W. I have assembled the dish in accordance with the supplied instructions and using the Blackburn Skew angle chart as downloaded from multilnbdish site, which is pretty close to where I am. I intend to use four LNBs for; Astra2 (28E), Astra 1 (19E), Hotbird (13E) and Sirius (5E), all of which should be easily obtainable with the T90 from my location. I set up the LNBs with Hotbird being the central zero point and positioned the other three according to the chart info. I then positioned the dish as high as I could on the wall of my bungalow, which faces almost due South. I already had two other 80CM dishes but I replaced the higher one with the T90 and left the lower one in place. To my amazement the new T90 fails to bring in hardly anything from the prime satellite, Hotbird. On a digital receiver the signal strength figure (using a Humax 5100 STB) says 58% signal strength and ZERO signal quality. I also connected an analogue receiver to the same LNB and this brought in a limited analogue signal with spaklies abound. I was very surprised as my other (lower positioned) dish, which was a 80CM one brings in 58% signal strength and 86% signal quality. The other dish I have removed now was a motorised one and this brought in 100% signal quality. I would have thought the T90, being in the same place as the motorised dish, would equal this. I have adjusted the dish many times and this is definitely the optimum signal I can get with it. The only possible thing I can think of that might be the problem, is I have a tall hedge which is about ten feet high and about 12 ft from the dish. The top of the T90 dish is about 18 inches above the top of the hedge if a line is taken horizontally. I have some small pictures here if anyone would like to help and wished to see them I can e-mail them over. Looking at the overall appearance of things the T90 seems to require a lower aproach angle as the dish is apparantly pointing down rather than upwards(!). Is there any possibility this is the problem and the signal path is too low thus hitting the hedge now? I realise the angle wto teh sat will eb teh same but if the signal point on the dish itself is very low down now it could be why the hedge is now getting in the way. I cannot really belive though that the T90, positioned higher up than the other dish is not receiving the same or better signals as the lower dish. If anyone can help I would be most grateful. Many thanks. Barrykap [/QUOTE]
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