sonnetpete
Grumpy Old Retired Moderator and quiz inquisitor..
- Joined
- Dec 13, 2008
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- Age
- 73
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- My Satellite Setup
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Laminas 1.2M fibre dish with an IBU, on a Clarke Tech USALS motor, covering 57E - 24.5W to an Octagon SX88. Displayed on a 20" Dyon LED TV.
Seperate 80 cm dish on 28E with a Humax Freesat for SWMBO.
Free Sat V8 meter. Sony Bravia 46" LCD, Sony BluRay and Home Cinema.
- My Location
- Normandy, France
Recently I was tinkering about with my TD88 which has a Triax multi sat bar which held eight LNB's. Now that we have stronger signals from 7°W I decided that I no longer needed 26°E on this dish and removed the LNB (reception of Badr was always tricky due to closeness of 28°E). Using the now spare LNB holder I realigned for 28°E as near to dish focus as I could. Surprisingly the results were quite poor (only in the region of 50 - 60% SNR)
Now most Triax users have grown to "love" the idiosyncratic LNB support arm. Through experimentation (ok, pushing it up and down) I found that I could gain 10 -15% SNR. However having no spare matchsticks at the moment I searched around for a more suitable and durable object to insert in the space between the arm and the dish. (the weight of the multi sat and LNB's made the problem much worse).
Luckily I came across a very handy piece of plastic which was both the right size and thickness. Being loathe to throw out anything, I had some spare fittings (spacers brackets etc.) from my IKEA kitchen units. One of the spacers fits perfectly and has proved a really excellent solution. I now have an extremely healthy 99% SNR on some 28°E transponders.
Now most Triax users have grown to "love" the idiosyncratic LNB support arm. Through experimentation (ok, pushing it up and down) I found that I could gain 10 -15% SNR. However having no spare matchsticks at the moment I searched around for a more suitable and durable object to insert in the space between the arm and the dish. (the weight of the multi sat and LNB's made the problem much worse).
Luckily I came across a very handy piece of plastic which was both the right size and thickness. Being loathe to throw out anything, I had some spare fittings (spacers brackets etc.) from my IKEA kitchen units. One of the spacers fits perfectly and has proved a really excellent solution. I now have an extremely healthy 99% SNR on some 28°E transponders.