owain
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- My Satellite Setup
- Triax td88 and technomate 2600 motor
- My Location
- United Kingdom
I had old nokia dual lnb dish on technisat hdfs and though it should be a doddle to replace with a motorised dish so i can get some french channels from 5w.
Old system was picking up astra 19.2e and hotbird 13e. So i assume poll was long enough and positioned ok so i should be able to receive these least.
Well dish is on wrong side of tall house and peers up over the ridge and after much faffing i managed to fit dish and align approx south according to technomate manual. Ok no reasonable signal off thor? Ok run out to maplin to get a "digital meter"..... Show No signal...ummmm but sat receiver should 65% level, 0db quality....ummm motor moves ok....jiggle around no better. Motor stops working....ohhh no did i short cable and blow receiver....run out to maplin get camping setup..... Feed camping dish to old receiver...get ard off astra ok.....reset motor....ok motor does.still work and i now have camping setup as well.
Weeks pass, sick of going up ladder jiggling....ahhh try that meter on a neighbours dish...wot no signal, but hes watching sky???? Oh bugger.
Borrow scaffold tower. Jiggle in comfort. Um poll is a bit off..correct that. Still not getting any quality indicated at receiver. Is it a duff lnb....swap for the camping one...signal strength is weeker. Swap it back.
Is technomate motor doc correct. Says for my location elevation angle on motor 37degrees and on dish mount 22.4degrees. But when i look on various web sides it says dish face should be basically vertical...but it is not.
Any hints advice gratelly accepted. Would have pulled me hair out but i have none.
I can't be that stupid...or is it just bad kit/luck?
I have tower for rest of week so will try juggling again tomorrow after work....
Old system was picking up astra 19.2e and hotbird 13e. So i assume poll was long enough and positioned ok so i should be able to receive these least.
Well dish is on wrong side of tall house and peers up over the ridge and after much faffing i managed to fit dish and align approx south according to technomate manual. Ok no reasonable signal off thor? Ok run out to maplin to get a "digital meter"..... Show No signal...ummmm but sat receiver should 65% level, 0db quality....ummm motor moves ok....jiggle around no better. Motor stops working....ohhh no did i short cable and blow receiver....run out to maplin get camping setup..... Feed camping dish to old receiver...get ard off astra ok.....reset motor....ok motor does.still work and i now have camping setup as well.
Weeks pass, sick of going up ladder jiggling....ahhh try that meter on a neighbours dish...wot no signal, but hes watching sky???? Oh bugger.
Borrow scaffold tower. Jiggle in comfort. Um poll is a bit off..correct that. Still not getting any quality indicated at receiver. Is it a duff lnb....swap for the camping one...signal strength is weeker. Swap it back.
Is technomate motor doc correct. Says for my location elevation angle on motor 37degrees and on dish mount 22.4degrees. But when i look on various web sides it says dish face should be basically vertical...but it is not.
Any hints advice gratelly accepted. Would have pulled me hair out but i have none.
I can't be that stupid...or is it just bad kit/luck?
I have tower for rest of week so will try juggling again tomorrow after work....