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Trying to find Astra 28.2 and configure dish
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<blockquote data-quote="joddle" data-source="post: 1024632" data-attributes="member: 247983"><p>I know you won't like this but I tried using one of those cheap dishes many years ago in Valencia when the signals for UK TV were very much weaker than they are today in Spain - however using an Invacom C120 LNB and matching feed-horn I did manage to get most Freesat channels in the day although always lost most at night. I was forever having to readjust the dish after every high wind as they are so flimsy they warp with almost nothing. There is definitely an art to setting them up (cross wires across the dish helps) but even after careful aligning and skew setting they soon go out of tune. They are just too weak physically and the mounts are very difficult to get rock steady and the focus arms not good enough to give an accurate point to the centre (check by pacing a torch in the LNB holder and see if it focusses in the centre - when first set up mine did not) . In the end a gale put paid to the dish and folded it completely in half so I had no choice but to replace it - which I did with a medium cost spun 2.4 from the eastern block. Immediately I had 24/7 coverage - it was a doddle to align and over the past 10 years had never been realigned. Of course now with the newer sats the size is really overkill - I get almost 100% SQ and SS on even the cheapest of receivers and need an attenuator on sensitive boxes. Just an hour to the south in Javea am able to get reliable reception from a good 1.2 PF. If I had to do it all again I most certainly would not even consider one of the petalised dishes - they are simply too much trouble for too little performance. If advising anyone I would say don't just go for the biggest but go for the best quality with the smallest size which will do the job. I know now I could get everything on something much smaller s0 so long it is of a good quality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joddle, post: 1024632, member: 247983"] I know you won't like this but I tried using one of those cheap dishes many years ago in Valencia when the signals for UK TV were very much weaker than they are today in Spain - however using an Invacom C120 LNB and matching feed-horn I did manage to get most Freesat channels in the day although always lost most at night. I was forever having to readjust the dish after every high wind as they are so flimsy they warp with almost nothing. There is definitely an art to setting them up (cross wires across the dish helps) but even after careful aligning and skew setting they soon go out of tune. They are just too weak physically and the mounts are very difficult to get rock steady and the focus arms not good enough to give an accurate point to the centre (check by pacing a torch in the LNB holder and see if it focusses in the centre - when first set up mine did not) . In the end a gale put paid to the dish and folded it completely in half so I had no choice but to replace it - which I did with a medium cost spun 2.4 from the eastern block. Immediately I had 24/7 coverage - it was a doddle to align and over the past 10 years had never been realigned. Of course now with the newer sats the size is really overkill - I get almost 100% SQ and SS on even the cheapest of receivers and need an attenuator on sensitive boxes. Just an hour to the south in Javea am able to get reliable reception from a good 1.2 PF. If I had to do it all again I most certainly would not even consider one of the petalised dishes - they are simply too much trouble for too little performance. If advising anyone I would say don't just go for the biggest but go for the best quality with the smallest size which will do the job. I know now I could get everything on something much smaller s0 so long it is of a good quality. [/QUOTE]
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