2.4m Raven (Formerly ASC Signal, formerly Andrews, formerly Channel Master) dish inst

[antenna1]

Nice install very good tidy job also you got the dish for a good price the normal trade price on the 2.4m is £1999 + vat ,

Just hope you get along with the people in your street a friend of mine had a 2.4m and the old bag next door reported him and planning made him take it down.

i've got every nilesat transponder and all are over 80% quality when overcast, today was bright and it was up near 95% on my technomate box

neighbours helped me build it and yes i have showtime channels.

Its possible the dish is overkill, but its for commercial use (my garden is only a temporary site) so better be safe that sorry

 

[john evans]

antenna1 is your friend in cardiff recieving showtime

 

[charly20]

Beautiful project

Excellent set-up

What else is there to say?

Just great!

I have one question though:

Can you receive 11374 H and 11411 H?

These are 2 new transponders for Showtime (with the Orbit merger).

They are not on Nilesat, but on Atlantic Bird 4.

Can you receive them?

How much signal?

Thanks!

 

[Turok]

Hello Charly!
long time ,nothing here from you,where are you?

11374 H,today i recogneized has been moved from ab 4 to the nilesat satellite,currencly listed on ab 4,but the signal since today is very strong on one of the showtime transponder on 11411 H still no signal,i received around 12 transponders of ab4 at the moment!

 

[antenna1]

I know some one is west wales who had showtime on a 2.4m dish but because of the old bag in the street he had to remove the dish.

Showtime arabia can be picked up on a 1.8m dish in cardiff and also a member on here crossbones had it on a 1.8m in swansea.

antenna1 is your friend in cardiff recieving showtime

 

[antenna1]

He would have to move the dish a bit as AB4 is not on 7'w he would need to nug the dish a bit to the west,

Beautiful project

Excellent set-up

What else is there to say?

Just great!

I have one question though:

Can you receive 11374 H and 11411 H?

These are 2 new transponders for Showtime (with the Orbit merger).

They are not on Nilesat, but on Atlantic Bird 4.

Can you receive them?

How much signal?

Thanks!

 

[pipino]

a Super set up you have there m8!!! well done ,,did you try the new aljazeera sport transponder on AB4 ??? ..cheers

 

[deepbluesky]

Hello Charly!
long time ,nothing here from you,where are you?

11374 H,today i recogneized has been moved from ab 4 to the nilesat satellite,currencly listed on ab 4,but the signal since today is very strong on one of the showtime transponder on 11411 H still no signal,i received around 12 transponders of ab4 at the moment!

Hans, according to _http://www.nilesat.com.eg/sattechinfo.htm neither Nilesat 101 nor 102 can cover this frequency range, so there are 2 possibilities: Either because of the cool air invasion your 3m is now able to get these 2 of AB4A (please don't get it mixed up with the former and much easier AB4) or they have moved to AB2 at 8W.

And returning to the initial thread topic i'd like to thank for the photos. Very nice installation indeed.

 

[shane77]

Really nice setup/dish/install etc I'm very envious, any more pics etc please post.

One last thing, whens the party so we can come round and have a look lol

 

[Malard]

lol thanks for the warm comments, this is my first install, but luckily i had the bank roll to do it well. The trade price for this dish should be ammended, as i've said paradigm are retailing these dishes at 1350 ex vat with the kingpost at 365 ex vat.

I will take some more high res photos with my proper camera and set them up.

With regard to dish take down worry, given that the neighbours helped me lift the dish onto the mount, i dont think its a major worry

 

[Malard]

oh one more thing, i would'nt know about extra transponders, unfortunatly i only need the 2 used for EPL games, and i spent alot of time focusing the dish to pick these up as strongly as possible. I have no plans to re-orient the dish as its been used to stream pictures to our analysis center in esti.

 

[Malard]

Will you get all Nilesat transponders with that dish in UK?

i'm getting all the transponders *i think* and very good quality. It seems slightly overkill also dish size wise from my location, but i only did a basic test of obscuring a portion of the dish by standing directly infront of part of the reflector.

 

[Telia]

You can never go too large for a dish, excellent choice.

 

[CROSSBONES]

Excellent neat and tidy set up!

Thats what you call a dish!!

 

[nelson_b]

hi

a superb setup --

what l.n.b. / feed - setup have you used on the dish --
to bring in such good reults ?

Well done -- regards nelson.b.

 

[Malard]

hi

a superb setup --

what l.n.b. / feed - setup have you used on the dish --
to bring in such good reults ?

Well done -- regards nelson.b.

I used the horn that came with it, and an invacom c120, the dish comes with a load of metalwork to support rx/tx but it all got removed and i just connected directly to the feed

 

[Turok]

do you have some picture,of the current setup now?

 

[geoffrey]

and the last batch

Many thanks for a very useful set of posts - as I am planning a 243 installation. I want to mount my antenna inverted as I am only looking at Astra which is at 53 degrees elevation here. This will make the dish 30 degrees from horizontal (as the offset angle is 22.6 degrees) so it can be more easily hidden. From the pictures (both your pictures and the installation manual) it looks as if the dish can be mounted inverted if the elevation attachment bracket is simply moved to the other end of the backframe assembly (or a new bracket fabricated for that position). From your now intimate knowledge of the antenna can you say if it looks if my proposal will work

 

[geoffrey]

I have found the answer to my question thanks to Peter Gardner the product line manager at Raven Skyware (as the company is now known). He sent me a picture of the modification - adding a new tab for the elevation rod to the support bracket - however, he is unable to supply the tab as the support bracket is brought in from a subcontractor.

enc:

 

[Lazarus]

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