Recent content by rpm123

do you mean where I have drawn the red line in picture below?

we are going to redo the pole. Just to confirm, in terms of setting the latitude/elevation, should I be using the green or yellow circles I have drawn in my picture below?

Please could you elaborate on "The correct feedhorn for the Channel Master design" - how does it compare to what I have currently?

So I should be looking at the tiny straight line after the circle, rather than the edge of the circle, when setting latitude? In terms of the pole, what is the best diameter pole to use?

I have attached the elevation and latitude settings below ...

and more pictures:

Some pictures of the new 1.1m motorised setup. I hope these illustrate what I meant about the pole being straight versus the motor:

The pole was level with the spirit level all around - haven't yet checked with a digital angle thingy

I am getting about the same signal on 1w as I did with my previous 1.1m setup. e.g. Speranta TV (12562V 27500) 93% (used to get 92), Discovery (S) (11229 H 24500) 88% (used to get 86). Similar story on 5E, 7E - about the same, some slightly stronger, some slightly weaker. 10E is the really...

I have had a 1.2m channel master motorised system installed, and the performance is very good across most satellites compared to the 1.1m motorised system I had at my old house. Unfortunately, there is one satellite weaker than what I had at home - 10E. Even more unfortunately, for someone who...

Well I'm actually having 2 motorised dishes installed at the new place- he came back to do a channel master 1.2 today - and will have another look at redoing the 1.1 tomorrow. The dishes are pretty easy to access to be honest. Much better performance on the 1.2, though 1 or 2 problem satellites...

The pole is visually (to the naked eye) slanting \ - in this case West to East (only slightly but clearly noticeable), and the spirit level confirmed this. Yes I meant the sides of the motor housing which is attached to the pole . Funnily enough at the moment, I have a very good signal on...

OK, but if it is plumb where the dish is mounted, surely it should also be plumb along the entire length of the pole? It is not the same dish as previous house (that one is still there), but same size and manufacturer (1.1 Triax). The LNB is not the same, in fact it's a higher quality LNB at...

To give some background, I have a 1.1m motorised Triax dish at my old house on which I receive a pretty good signal across the arc despite the fact that my dish was on a pole attached to my chimney. I use the dish quite a lot for feedhunting, and the signal strength for feeds is generally lower...