dankargo
Specialist Contributor
- Joined
- May 11, 2014
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- Age
- 33
- Location
- Brentwood, UK
- My Satellite Setup
- 90cm Motorised
- My Location
- Brentwood
Hi all,
I've had my 90cm motorised dish installed at my new property. The dish has had to be placed in a bit of an awkward location but the installer finally got there in the end. With my correct longitude and latitude in the receiver, I'm getting signal on all sats but I soon noticed the signal levels were slightly lower than what my 80cm dish had been receiving in my old property.
This afternoon I did as described on here and tweaked my longitude values to see if there would be much difference and there was minor improvement. However altering my latitude from 51.66 to around 70.00 and longitude from 0.030 E to 0.070W has dramatically improved reception. I know you aren't really supposed to mess with the latitude but in this case, it really has made a difference. I'm getting 80% on the Nordic beam on 1W (was 60% before), 67-70% on the TRT channels on 7E (was 49-55 previously), 99% on many Hotbird TPs (was maxing out at 89% previously) and even pulling in lots of feeds now.
After altering the latitude, I did a 'Go to 0' and drove the dish across the arc, thankfully its still hitting every single satellite but with improved signal across the board. I know the dish probably wasn't installed as accurately as it should have been but thisfix alteration seems to have fine tuned everything. Just wondered if anyone else has had to alter their latitude values to peak signal levels?
I've had my 90cm motorised dish installed at my new property. The dish has had to be placed in a bit of an awkward location but the installer finally got there in the end. With my correct longitude and latitude in the receiver, I'm getting signal on all sats but I soon noticed the signal levels were slightly lower than what my 80cm dish had been receiving in my old property.
This afternoon I did as described on here and tweaked my longitude values to see if there would be much difference and there was minor improvement. However altering my latitude from 51.66 to around 70.00 and longitude from 0.030 E to 0.070W has dramatically improved reception. I know you aren't really supposed to mess with the latitude but in this case, it really has made a difference. I'm getting 80% on the Nordic beam on 1W (was 60% before), 67-70% on the TRT channels on 7E (was 49-55 previously), 99% on many Hotbird TPs (was maxing out at 89% previously) and even pulling in lots of feeds now.
After altering the latitude, I did a 'Go to 0' and drove the dish across the arc, thankfully its still hitting every single satellite but with improved signal across the board. I know the dish probably wasn't installed as accurately as it should have been but this