Recent content by smiffie

Gibertini do have a good reputation, is it aluminium or steel, do you happen to know the reflector dimensions? It would be interesting to see some reception figures from the weaker staellites like 5E/16E/26E. One of the issues with holes/cracks in walls is that water can get in and if it...

Thanks, I did understand those two issues that I've highlighted, although wasn't 16E also an oddball when it came to skew? Luckily my provider has moved from 16E to 23E so I don't really have to worry about that anymore. The fact that I've gained 10% by changing the LNB focal point maybe worth...

It was a nice luxury to have this time around but not entirely ideal as the working height is only gutter level. You can buy the extra level to take you upto Apex height but I'm not sure whether I'd feel safe on such a small platform at that height. It is good to have a platform at that level to...

Does being in central Scotland make a difference as I think Channel 5 HD is on the Southern 2A beam? I actually reconnected the ISS 105cm on a patio stand last night with a Titanium 0.1 LNB, it was set with a slight skew and showed 97% on Ch5 HD. However the vertical transponders were extremly...

I doubt it, I've never seen DM800's exibit that behaviour, I would imagine I would have seen it on the 105cm as 28E absolutely booms in on that rascal.

Is that a Cambridge Juno silver LNB by any chance? I stumbled across my old Juno Gold version whilst trying to unearth my satellite installation kit recently, I think the silver was around 1.0dB and the Gold around 0.7 if memory serves. I also recognise the Technomate menu there, I have a 1500...

Thanks. I believe Channel 5 HD is a horizontal, if it were just down to dish size I'd expect lower levels on all the satellites. 5E was about 67% and its now about 62% but Channel 5 HD is 77% and I'm pretty sure it was in the 90s. My other DM800 running the same image on an even smaller dish is...

I know Dishpointer shouldn't be taken as gospel, but taken as a guideline, there doesn't appear to be a line of sight issue.

After the recent failure of my Jaeger 99G H to H mount I decided to do a complete reinstall with a new dish and motor, I also took the opportunity to replace the 18" painted T and Ks with 12" galvanised steel mounts. I have however re-used the 2" galvanised steel scaffold pole, V bolts, LNB and...

Just spotted as I was posting, but surely <30dbW requires something greater than 600cm? Not that it is particularly relevant for everyone other than the likes of Klaus Schumacher in his quest to pick up Astra 1 in Brazil.

I have used this chart as a guideline in the past to calculate the required dish size based on the dBW level displayed on the target satellite footprint. Be careful to check the full specification of a dish before buying as in the past I've been supplied with a dish that was supposed to be 85cm...

I had a quick look last night at the feasibilty of moving the dish from the gable end to the back corner of the house and took a couple of snaps on my Android. It looks like I would get all of the West arc, but would miss out on some of the lower eastern birds which I'm not really interested in...

Cracked wall? Bloody hell sounds a bit hairy that.

Gasp - surely not with a motorised system?

"nipping up" - Umm that's what I'm getting at, perhaps I'll reword the thread!