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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
Turksat 42 deg in SW London prob.
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<blockquote data-quote="somebodyelse" data-source="post: 513619" data-attributes="member: 286131"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Setting the dish to scan all available satellites I can receive, I usually find:-</p><p>Hispasat 30 deg W</p><p>Nilesat 7.0 deg W</p><p>Hotbird 13 deg E</p><p>Astra 19.2 deg E</p><p>Astra 1D 31.3 deg E</p><p></p><p>That (to me) indicates I've got the arc about right.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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?</p><p></p><p>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?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="somebodyelse, post: 513619, member: 286131"] 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? [/QUOTE]
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