Recent content by owain

Many thanks to you all for all the good advice. All is working fine now. Picking up all sats except 28e which is below ridge height. Even picking up hispsat....but i don’t do spanish :-) Thanks again. Owain

Super. Some success today. Picking up stuff off thor, some success with astra 19.2 also. Key issue was the elevation. As soon as dish was approx vertical started receiving stuff. Major issue was technomate shitty documention and trying to do this up a ladder. On the moter it shows elevation...

Above on thor? 10778 h 24500. Lnb disconnected With lnb connected. Sat meter connected with that 90% signal strength indicated at receiver....is it broken? Finally dish showing 22.4 approx on dish mount and 37 on motor mount. Now that is what technomate manual said. But i think...

Forgot to say also metered all cable for shorts, and made loopback plug to check connectivity. This was all ok. The maplin meter as a switch for backlight, attenuation on and off, and a dial which i thought was just volume, but maybe it is sensitivity like you said. Will check. Will make...

I had old nokia dual lnb dish on technisat hdfs and though it should be a doddle to replace with a motorised dish so i can get some french channels from 5w. Old system was picking up astra 19.2e and hotbird 13e. So i assume poll was long enough and positioned ok so i should be able to receive...