2E back to southern Portugal?

[dxn]

The lowest ones.
10714h is the strongest.
Everything is watchable now except HDs. No breakup.

The thing I find very strange is that before yesterday I had never spotted any signal.
And suddenly yesterday there was a significant signal increase. I suppose that a wobble would not produce such a sudden change...

Nothing here not a sniff and I'm o the same area as you

I guess my 2,10m PF dish is not big enough as yours 3,1m.

Cumprimentos!! (regards)

 

[Pedro0102]

It is going to be interesting to see how they are going to arrange the birds when 2g comes into play. For us livning close to the 'null' lines, small adjustments seem to matter.

I wonder if this change has anything to do with the preparation for 2g launch next month...

 

[jleal]

Hi Pedro, you say everything is watchable except the HD's. Do you get BBC3 and ITV3 in good conditions? Here with my 1.8 around 23:30 things started to deteriorate. I'm getting some pixellation at 10773H and also ITV's transponder.

Usually all channels including the strongest channel4 transponder disappear completely by the end of the night but today I think they're receivable for a longer period.

A sat dealer close to me told me that on is 2.1m all channels are lost during the night. I can also confirm that. Let's see if it happens today .

 

[Pedro0102]

Hi Pedro, you say everything is watchable except the HD's. Do you get BBC3 and ITV3 in good conditions? Here with my 1.8 around 23:30 things started to deteriorate. I'm getting some pixellation at 10773H and also ITV's transponder.

Usually all channels including the strongest channel4 transponder disappear completely by the end of the night but today I think they're receivable for a longer period.

A sat dealer close to me told me that on is 2.1m all channels are lost during the night. I can also confirm that. Let's see if it happens today .

I lost everything except ch4 (lowest transponder) for about 10 minutes just after 23h30.
During this period I had heavy pixealization with loss of lock for some instants.
Everything is back now (except HDs)

 

[dxn]

What signal do you have poweerlevel, db when the signal is at hits peak?

 

[jleal]

@dxn: did you try to fine tune your lnb? Is it "bugs" free? If you read my other thread in this forum you can see that I had a huge spider nest inside the lnb and removing it improved the signal a lot.

Also on the Iberian Peninsula report thread, on this same forum on the 16th february I posted that I've been able to get some signal for a few minutes at 10773H. I don't know if the spider was there already but I know that I had a signal reading.

Maybe for us in the deep fringe areas there is a noticeable swing in signal strength throughout the year (and day also!) and because astra 2E it's fired up for less than a year, we don't have enough data to know what's really happening.. well, this is just an hypothesis from someone who knows almost nothing about this matters.

As for reception today, things are really good now. Everything is perfect except ITV3 (some break up), BBC3 (lot's of pixellation), no HD and no 2F.

I have the strongest signal on 10714H:
7.10 dB
SNR: 43%
AGC: 99%
BER: around 50000

10773H:
6.8dB
SNR: 42%
AGC: 99%
BER: around 85000

The worst transponder:
10818V
5.8dB
SNR: 36%
AGC:99%
BER: around 730000
I have a lock here but it's impossible to watch.

These are the conditions right now. Yesterday they were a bit better before lunch but not much.

Hope this helps.

 

[dxn]

@dxn: did you try to fine tune your lnb? Is it "bugs" free? If you read my other thread in this forum you can see that I had a huge spider nest inside the lnb and removing it improved the signal a lot.

Also on the Iberian Peninsula report thread, on this same forum on the 16th february I posted that I've been able to get some signal for a few minutes at 10773H. I don't know if the spider was there already but I know that I had a signal reading.

Maybe for us in the deep fringe areas there is a noticeable swing in signal strength throughout the year (and day also!) and because astra 2E it's fired up for less than a year, we don't have enough data to know what's really happening.. well, this is just an hypothesis from someone who knows almost nothing about this matters.

As for reception today, things are really good now. Everything is perfect except ITV3 (some break up), BBC3 (lot's of pixellation), no HD and no 2F.

I have the strongest signal on 10714H:
7.10 dB
SNR: 43%
AGC: 99%
BER: around 50000

10773H:
6.8dB
SNR: 42%
AGC: 99%
BER: around 85000

The worst transponder:
10818V
5.8dB
SNR: 36%
AGC:99%
BER: around 730000
I have a lock here but it's impossible to watch.

These are the conditions right now. Yesterday they were a bit better before lunch but not much.

Hope this helps.

yes I tryed to adjust the LNB and improved the reception on the Astra 2A North Beam cleaned all the webs and spiders that were on my dish but got no results on UK beam, no signal on any frequency.
you are a little further north from me so maybe that's why you get some signals with your 1,80.

 

[Pedro0102]

One week after situation remains stable.
C/N varies according to the transponder. The lower ones are better with C/N around 7dB.
BBCs are around 6.5dB but sometimes drop to 5.5dB (namely every day after 22h30). At this point they are no longer watchable.

I'm thinking about replacing by Invacom Quad lnb by an Iverto Black Pro. Not sure if it will make a difference but it is worth the try.