Recent content by celspid

Handyman 44.....By the way I'd imagine these to be awkward tools up a ladder too, so if you did go for one, be just as careful as if you had a dish and meter up there. I'm very wobbly on a ladder too! :) There is another useful tool, which I don't own, good for site surveys apparently. The...

rolfw...I see what you mean, though carrying one of these around is much easier than taking a dish and test meter everywhere. cheers, celspid

rolfw....I don't think he's after one of these gadgets to help with alignment of a dish, purely for site surveys only. For example say customer wants 53 east satellite, the Sat Site gadget will tell you if your location can see it with no obstacles. Or 30 west from a ground mount, this'll help...

handyman 44. I'm only a hobbyist, not a professional, so not sure where you can obtain the digital one that you're after. I guess the video you're talking about is from satellitesuperstore. Correct? If so ask them, I'm sure they'll tell ;) Yes you are correct the align-a-site doesn't have to...

Hi handyman 44. I have two optical instruments. Both from the States. One is called an align-a-site, which you can see at h**p://www.alignasite.com Have a look very useful tool. I didn't buy it direct off them, they pointed me to another site called h**p://www.campingworld.com Costs curently...

12bore,,,,thanks for the info in the Astra 3A and Nilesat threads. We have lots of east Europeans in Liverpool too, maybe I should contact SES Astra to please swing their transponder footprints more westwards to cater for them all. Or just throw everything on Astra 1D which is at the same...

Current 1.2 metre Channel Master gets me lots if not all verticals mostly in evenings, nothing for horizontal. Liverpool, UK cheers, celspid

12bore....thanks for double-checking, well that is very weird! It must be as rolfw says an anomaly of sorts or out of footprint sweet spot. Lucky you! You don't have good reception to Nilesat 7 west too, do you? If you do, please reply to the other separate thread, would be interested. In the...

Are you sure 12bore? Very difficult here in Liverpool on a Channel Master 1.2 metre and I'm much further eastward than you?!? cheers, celspid

matluz, sorry I know nothing about your receiver I'm afraid, but are you sure your dish sees past 42 east. Try getting PAS 12 at 45 east and then try Express AM22 at 53 east. You won't get Bonum at 56 east, the footprint doesn't cover western Europe!

RD100, I'd love to try cband. Using the same dish as you, however my 1.8 dish can only see approximately 36east to at least 12 west, as it's on the ground in a backyard. Not much on cband I guess in this part of the arc? I wish I could elevate my 1.8 metre a bit higher like my Andrews 1.2 metre...

RD100, I ordered it online a couple of weeks back on Maplin site, it's only to play with though, as it is pretty cheap. Hopefully (one day) want to get a 1.8 metre ChannelMaster, but that's in the future.

RD100,,, I bought one of these dishes off Maplin, quite cheap, so no big loss if it doesn't turn out as I hope. Will probably try playing about this coming weekend. I have a spare Invacom Quad 0.3, so will use this with an Invacom feedhorn, I'll let you know how I get on over the coming week or...

RD100, Love the Manhattan Plaza 550. Great receiver. Love it so much just bought another, well actually bought the 450 Plaza which is pretty much the same really. I'd recommend it, but takes a little getting used to all its little quirks. cheers, celspid

RD100, thanks for the quick reply. cheers, :) celspid