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It doesn't help much, I suspect he has a 3m prime focus dish.
I have the same dish as you but no C120 feedhorn. I am also having most success with 2F but nothing consistant. I presume this is because 2E has an official position on 28.35E whereas 2F is at the traditional position of 28.2E. Have you actually re-aligned your dish or have you just tweaked the LNB?
I did try a black ultra some time ago but found it slightly worse than the Invacom twin which must be six years old now I guess. I did have to realign the dish to pick up 10.906v, I could just about lock a picture on ITV Channel but it was pixellating badly but then I upset the multiplex on 11053h so I put it back. I remember reading somewhere that the feedhorn needs to be the right one for the Andrews dish, I brought mine over with me when we moved here 9 years ago from Eurosat in Exeter. They had a contact in Lanzarote who advised this was the best setup. Originally I had the single LNB but changed it for the twin later and it gave some improvement, that was in the 2D days. Milestone 11 has a boshmann and I had a play with that a couple of years ago, compared it to a black ultra, it was the difference between pixellating on the black ultra and a clear picture on the boshmann if I remember right, Milestone 11 perhaps remembers better. I have found by twiddling with the focal point I got a marked improvement, I have double checked the two halves of the dish are aligned too. I found that by pushing the feedhorn up by a few mil it gave a marked improvement, BER in the threethousands down to the fourhundreds by doing that. I haven't finished fiddling yet and will do more but at the moment 11053 and 11126 are pretty well there all the time during the day fading at around 9pm. I don't hold out much hope for BBC on 2e though, the dish just isn't big enough. I reckon it could be extended and someone on this forum has done it for C band but I don't think I can be bothered, as long as er indoors has her ITV soaps my life is sweetness and light. Hope this helps a bit. PS forgot to mention the TM 5402 gives the best results over the openboxes.
Don't forget 2E is at 28.35E whereas the dish will originally have been aligned to 28.2E for 2D (which is also where 2F is).
Mmm, I read somewhere on one of these forums that 2E seems to be down on power slightly, my devious mind is telling me if that is the case, could it be deliberate? The only transponder I can lock a picture on 2E is 10.906v which carries an ITV mplx, I do have to pull the dish left and down a bit and the picture is breaking up, unwatchable really. Sounds a bit like the navy lark don't it? left a bit right a bit.
I will have to have a serious play with this I think, er indoors goes back to UK for a couple of weeks next week so that will give me time to do some research and correct any mess ups. The radiation pattern for the channel 5 mplx means left a bit, down a bit too but that is on 2F, if I align to that then 11.053 breaks up, or is the channel 5 transponder just lower power, strange but then out of footprint overspill is a science on it's own. GC and TF are well south and west of here but I see some are getting 2E quite well. I understand that Lanzarote is a real black spot and that is a little farther north. I'll keep you posted.
