Recent content by Cliveastro

I cant think why we pay so much for our TV licence.

I have had a bit of a play now and I find I can get Nilesat on 7west. So I do have an improvement, I dont feel so bad now.

Both good, Gibertini probably better as its aluminium and lighter.

I have tried tweaking the lnb in skew and position, it made no difference. When I have a free evening I will compare the results I got with my old dish. Living on the coast in the south I was probably spoilt in the first place. I didnt go for a 1 metre as I didnt want to stress my motor too...

The answer to what I was expecting is, I dont know, and yes on Thor its actually 17% better. I should know better than to expect magic at my age. When I can get at the telly I will let you know. I did get a little silicone grease on the conductor, which I wiped off, but I know its a dificult to...

Having had very good weather I managed to replace my 70cm Uniden dish with a 85(90)cm Gibertini. I notice that I do have gains in signal strength i.e. on Thor it went from 70% to 82% but these are not as much as I had hoped. Am I hoping for too much? Also the bigger dish was a lot more twitchy...

Can you arrange for some nice dry sunny windless weather. Then I will go up the ladder and sort it.:cool:

Well I have gone mad tweaking. Very simple solution:- 1.Put dish on best dining table which is flat (out of sight of she who must be obeyed). 2. Loosen the nuts that hold the bracket to the back of the dish. 3. Push down on rear of dish. 4. Re-tighten nuts. Job done. Clive

The idea was just as a back up if the diseq motor got tired with the new dish i've got. It should be OK. If not it looks like I could be into about another £150+ with the vbox11, a H-H mount and actuator, Oh and 4 way cable.

Thanks I will have a look at it.

It is. but its indoors. If I had one more box it would tip the marital hapiness balance.

I am surprised that someone hasnt designed a convertor that sends a diseq signal to a 36v motor (with the correct power cables of course). This would be the obvious answer for bigger dishes without a vbox.

I would like to pull in the very best signal from everything. With my 70cm dish I get around 90% signal strength.

I have a new dish ready to put up when its warmer, the wind dies down and it stops raining. So having read about dishes being buckled I tested my new one with bits of fishing line. Well the result, its out by 1 to 2mm. The question is do I go mad tweaking it so that its perfect everywhere or...

Having now put the dish together (not installed) it doesnt sound to bad, but it is aluminium.