somebodyelse
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- My Satellite Setup
- 90 cm dish
- My Location
- SW London
Hi - I have a motorised dish, which is largely overkill as I now only want to receive one satellite - Turksat 42 deg E. The dish is 90 cm wide, and I'm located in SW London.
Setting the dish to scan all available satellites I can receive, I usually find:-
Hispasat 30 deg W
Nilesat 7.0 deg W
Hotbird 13 deg E
Astra 19.2 deg E
Astra 1D 31.3 deg E
That (to me) indicates I've got the arc about right.
If I set the antenna to where 42 deg E should be, I can detect an increase in signal strength, and using a meter have peaked it up, but still can't lock on to a signal.
The actual channels I want are the Georgian free channels, and looking at Rustavi2's footprint map here h**p://www.rustavi2.com/news/includes/satelite.php it indicates a 120cm dish is needed for the whole of the UK.
Am I flogging a dead horse with a 90cm dish - would I likely need to get a bigger dish and then it would resolve the signal?
As another allied question, the receiver is a Digital 1200M (CI), which used to accept on-air updates from Sky, but now fails to download the software. Is it likely that for an older receiver, the on-air software has been discontinued? I have found a download of a program called PCLink 2.5 which seems to be a software upgrade - (mentioned by someone a few years back) - anyone know if it's ok to use?
Setting the dish to scan all available satellites I can receive, I usually find:-
Hispasat 30 deg W
Nilesat 7.0 deg W
Hotbird 13 deg E
Astra 19.2 deg E
Astra 1D 31.3 deg E
That (to me) indicates I've got the arc about right.
If I set the antenna to where 42 deg E should be, I can detect an increase in signal strength, and using a meter have peaked it up, but still can't lock on to a signal.
The actual channels I want are the Georgian free channels, and looking at Rustavi2's footprint map here h**p://www.rustavi2.com/news/includes/satelite.php it indicates a 120cm dish is needed for the whole of the UK.
Am I flogging a dead horse with a 90cm dish - would I likely need to get a bigger dish and then it would resolve the signal?
As another allied question, the receiver is a Digital 1200M (CI), which used to accept on-air updates from Sky, but now fails to download the software. Is it likely that for an older receiver, the on-air software has been discontinued? I have found a download of a program called PCLink 2.5 which seems to be a software upgrade - (mentioned by someone a few years back) - anyone know if it's ok to use?