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<blockquote data-quote="trash" data-source="post: 134227" data-attributes="member: 178231">Any photo's yet ?A picture is the next best thing to actually being there.You might find that is is something so simple you never considered it.I had a job where they installed a dish in a very remote location. I gave instructions that I was sure were going to work. To test the theory I had a hand picked village idiot follow the instructions from scratch and it wasn't long before he had the satellite.But the remote location, the tech's couldn't find the satellite or any satellite.I smelt a rat, so I was eventually persuaded to do the trip.After a couple of minutes of panning the sky and finding nothing but the tiniest lump in the background radiation, I decided to replace the LNC. It looked like it had some massive attenuation (maybe a broken FET). Upon pulling it off the feed support, I discovered the problem.The mounting plate was solid metal and they had just bolted the feed horn on one side and the LNC on the other with a wall of metal blocking the waveguide. I drill out a hole and put it all back together (while trying not to laugh). The tiny lump that I was seeing was actually the satellite despite the waveguide being blocked.You can see the importance of actually having a variation in background noise as you move the antenna across the sky. (or the sky moves across it).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="trash, post: 134227, member: 178231"] Any photo's yet ? A picture is the next best thing to actually being there. You might find that is is something so simple you never considered it. I had a job where they installed a dish in a very remote location. I gave instructions that I was sure were going to work. To test the theory I had a hand picked village idiot follow the instructions from scratch and it wasn't long before he had the satellite. But the remote location, the tech's couldn't find the satellite or any satellite. I smelt a rat, so I was eventually persuaded to do the trip. After a couple of minutes of panning the sky and finding nothing but the tiniest lump in the background radiation, I decided to replace the LNC. It looked like it had some massive attenuation (maybe a broken FET). Upon pulling it off the feed support, I discovered the problem. The mounting plate was solid metal and they had just bolted the feed horn on one side and the LNC on the other with a wall of metal blocking the waveguide. I drill out a hole and put it all back together (while trying not to laugh). The tiny lump that I was seeing was actually the satellite despite the waveguide being blocked. You can see the importance of actually having a variation in background noise as you move the antenna across the sky. (or the sky moves across it). [/QUOTE]

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