Recent content by Birdseye

Ford Polar Grey car paint from Halfords. A couple of cans for a mesh dish. Any of their stuff will work. Looks much better than having 'Lemon' written on it!

Okay you have all the kit you need. Just line up your dish pointing at whatever you can see on Google earth is in the right direction... bit of waggling with your dish until your meter bleeps a lot and then you should have something to look at. The blind search isn't necessary but it saves you...

Depends if your set top box allows blind searching. If it does I would invest £25 in a decent satellite meter and start experimenting. (You'll most likely need the sat meter anyway to line up a motorised system.) Presume your dish is pole mounted so you can swing it around and make the...

Hi all Well, managed it in the end. I've been very carefully remeasuring everying. To get the look up angle at 7.5 degrees for the dish face from vertical at the peak of the arc I used a level with a rotating vial. That wasn't the problem! The problem as it turns out was that the due South on...

Thanks guys! I am trying to kick off with 1W to keep it simple if I can. I only got the motor to scan around a bit to see if I was way out on the rest of the arc. I'll ring up Technomate tomorrow see if they can give me some idea what the signal strength should be like - the manual doesn't give...

Hi all I've been spending the last couple of weeks trying to set up a motorised system. There must be something bleeding obvious that I'm not doing right. Quick recap, I've fitted a pole 100% vertical, determined the look up angle of the dish from the supplier, used a spirit level to set that so...

Hey Gromit Great minds and all that.... I am attempting my install tomorrow after visiting Myers today to pick up a shorter T+K and a sat meter. Anyway... the one thing I am struggling with is how to set the look up angle of the dish: and I think yours is the exact same dish, mine is a mesh...

I've heard many times that this is impossible. But surely if you coat the dish with aluminum silver car paint or coat it in tin foil it will reflect light to a focus point which you can find on a sunny day with a bit of paper and experimentation??? (As its an offset dish I assume you'll have...