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I am clear of the opposite house but there is a tree just in front of mine, it is rather a small tree but is right in the 57 path - i wonder if I shouldn't just cut it :)

well apparently there is bTV clear on it on 12551 V 9404 which I am told can be got in Paris and is paid on all other carries - so if at all possible with my size dish I would like to try get it, footprint below http://www.ddelec.com/bg_news/NSS703.htm

ok so in terms of geometrical correctness you can set up on any satellite with usals however as you say above it is more practical to do it on the center ones in my case I cannot see Thor at all (house is in the way) next one for me was Hotbird - which has a strong signal and it is very hard to...

guys I am talking usals-only for this from the start, am I missing something - USALS 16 E is not the same as Disec1.2 16E right ? I mean you sent the motor to USALS 16 E and then align the dish manually on W2 signal, this is what I did anyway, and isn't this is the same as sending the motor to...

I see but would you expain why that is ? in other words, UK wide, isn't it the same thing to : a) set the motor to Thor 1W and 'wiggle the dish till you get best signal', or B) set the motor to W2 16 E and 'wiggle the dish till you get best signal'

I swapped it - 'cause the receiver that went with it did not work :) still it is a mystery to me why I was not getting anything at all from that cnannel - considering that I was getting other transponders well. I can't say that since changing the dish the quality of what I was getting before...

ok I got a Fortec Star 90 cm dish and with an old LNB I had - it works ! thanks everybody for advice . .

so could it be that with a larger dish i would get more interference from astra and things would get worse ? I noticed a strange thing - if I move the LNB closer to the dish (it can move by about an inch) I get much stronger signal on the analog meter but worse signal on the W2 quality scale -...

crikey this will drive me nuts, I never thought there would be 'bad dishes' ; and this business where you get some TPs but not others is really a black art it seems. in the meantime without me doing a thing on the dish a new scan got more channels from 11147 (7 dni at 51%) and some of those on...

don't khow to describe the dish other than that it is a Metronic 80cm dish (without holes) from maplins, lnb came with the dish what is 'meter alignment' ? I have a simple satelite finder meter and it is maxed out and not much help as it is not tuned and must be picking the signal from adjacent...

I don't get it - if I do what you say by the time I get to 16 E all potential errors I may have (pole not vertical etc) will be included in the tatget position, therefore I thought it best to set mechanically on W2 and eliminate these errors - what do you think ? Also I have no ability to...

well I had originally set the motor using 1W as I am on 0W, I found USALS works pretty well and after sending the dish to a sat and going in the DiseqC I found that I could get no improvement going E and W from the usals position. Also when I went to 39E with usals I could pick the signal...

Hi I am very new to dish motors but after some dodgy ladder acrobatics managed to set up so I can get several sats and hundreds of FTA channels from 1W to 39E with USALS. I had some trouble with W2 16E at first and finally sent USALS to it and then moved the dish/lnb manually exploring every...