trev1978
Member
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2011
- Messages
- 32
- Reaction score
- 4
- Points
- 8
- Age
- 46
- My Satellite Setup
- 1.25m motorised dish, 1.85m prime focus fixed, spiderbox 7000, technomate 5400USB super
- My Location
- Ballymena, Northern Ireland
Hi all,
I had an official standard definition Viasat sub to 4.8' and was able to pull in the northern beam using my 1.9m prime focus- however my signal was weak and i did get picture breakup in the evenings. Viasat changed to HD boxes in the summer and i haven't as yet renewed the sub as I wasn't confident of pulling the HD channels as I assumed i would need a much stronger signal for this. I was never 100% happy with my dish setup and i have have been making some improvement. There was a slight warp in the dish which I have now corrected (divide dish into 12 segments with fishing line) and I discovered that the LNB wasn't 100 % centred on the dish. I am hoping that correcting these two items will help to bump of the signal.
I have a small portable standard def signal meter. Could anyone advise on what would be a good TP for me to max out the signal to. My meter won't read the HD sports channels that I am actually looking for.
Also when I set up the dish 6 years ago I bought both invacom and inverto blank LNB's. I ended up using the inverto as from memory it was pulling better quality on the horizontals. Has there been any further developments in LNB's for prime focus dishes? I am using the invacom scalar feedhorn.
Thanks,
Trev
I had an official standard definition Viasat sub to 4.8' and was able to pull in the northern beam using my 1.9m prime focus- however my signal was weak and i did get picture breakup in the evenings. Viasat changed to HD boxes in the summer and i haven't as yet renewed the sub as I wasn't confident of pulling the HD channels as I assumed i would need a much stronger signal for this. I was never 100% happy with my dish setup and i have have been making some improvement. There was a slight warp in the dish which I have now corrected (divide dish into 12 segments with fishing line) and I discovered that the LNB wasn't 100 % centred on the dish. I am hoping that correcting these two items will help to bump of the signal.
I have a small portable standard def signal meter. Could anyone advise on what would be a good TP for me to max out the signal to. My meter won't read the HD sports channels that I am actually looking for.
Also when I set up the dish 6 years ago I bought both invacom and inverto blank LNB's. I ended up using the inverto as from memory it was pulling better quality on the horizontals. Has there been any further developments in LNB's for prime focus dishes? I am using the invacom scalar feedhorn.
Thanks,
Trev