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<blockquote data-quote="cokeaddict" data-source="post: 1160455" data-attributes="member: 367906">Currently I have a 1.2m channel master motorised dish installed about 13 years ago, however tree's are now too tall and block everything from 53E to 1.9E during the summer. In the winter I get 28.2E, 13E, 9E, 4.8E and some of 19.2E back, most of the others are still missing or very very weak still.So I also have a&nbsp; Zone 2 mini dish, with a universal multi-lnb holder, trying to get 13E (unsuccessfully), 19.2E (great) and 28.2E (not perfect but good enough except in heavy rain) with an Inverto Black Ultra Twin (13E), Golden Media 202 (19.2E) and a Dur-line UK 124L3 (28.2E) and it's this I need some advice with.No matter what I do, I can't get 13E with this setup, it seems to pickup 13E, 10E and 9E (weak signals on all 3, 13E is the worst) with the Black Ultra, which I assume is because I can't get the lnb close enough to 19.2E (dish is pointed at 19.2E), and being a multi-focal dish this just makes the problem worse.I do also have an 80cm Triax doing nothing with a Triax Multiblock lnb holder, when I used this, I could get 13E and 19.2E without issue but 28.2E wasn't good, it seemed like I could either have the UK beam or the Europe beam but getting both wasn't really happening.So I am wondering if I might have more luck using a triple monoblock lnb, re-align the Zone 2 dish on 16E and gain an extra sat out of it, but not sure if the multi-focal dish would still be an issue in this scenario, though in theory (in my head atleast) it should be less of an issue as the triple monoblock will only be offset by 3° each side of 16E.Thoughts and advice please on the best way to get this setup.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cokeaddict, post: 1160455, member: 367906"] Currently I have a 1.2m channel master motorised dish installed about 13 years ago, however tree's are now too tall and block everything from 53E to 1.9E during the summer. In the winter I get 28.2E, 13E, 9E, 4.8E and some of 19.2E back, most of the others are still missing or very very weak still. So I also have a Zone 2 mini dish, with a universal multi-lnb holder, trying to get 13E (unsuccessfully), 19.2E (great) and 28.2E (not perfect but good enough except in heavy rain) with an Inverto Black Ultra Twin (13E), Golden Media 202 (19.2E) and a Dur-line UK 124L3 (28.2E) and it's this I need some advice with. No matter what I do, I can't get 13E with this setup, it seems to pickup 13E, 10E and 9E (weak signals on all 3, 13E is the worst) with the Black Ultra, which I assume is because I can't get the lnb close enough to 19.2E (dish is pointed at 19.2E), and being a multi-focal dish this just makes the problem worse. I do also have an 80cm Triax doing nothing with a Triax Multiblock lnb holder, when I used this, I could get 13E and 19.2E without issue but 28.2E wasn't good, it seemed like I could either have the UK beam or the Europe beam but getting both wasn't really happening. So I am wondering if I might have more luck using a triple monoblock lnb, re-align the Zone 2 dish on 16E and gain an extra sat out of it, but not sure if the multi-focal dish would still be an issue in this scenario, though in theory (in my head atleast) it should be less of an issue as the triple monoblock will only be offset by 3° each side of 16E. Thoughts and advice please on the best way to get this setup. [/QUOTE]

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