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<blockquote data-quote="alec" data-source="post: 829206" data-attributes="member: 176125">Dish 70 x 90 (nominal) Optex (looks like fibreglass)LNB (now) MTI High line QuadHumax Foxsat HDR, Topfield TF4000PVRLongish (20 m -odd) cable run, one join (inside) where the external sections were replaced due to weathering.Quillan (approx. 50 km south of Carcassonne)Since the changeover, Channel 4 HD, 4/seven, 5 receivable at around 90% strength, 50-60% quality (occasional pixellation etc.) mornings only - quality starts to fade at around 12:00, &quot;no or bad signal&quot; by around 15:00.Changed from a Smart Quad to the MTI High Line LNB this afternoon - no change to Astra 1F (rats! - waste of 50 EUR) despite already excellent signal on other Astra 2 channels improving from strength 90-95 to 97-100%, quality 100%.&quot;Nudging&quot; the dish makes no difference - I'll have another go at improving the alignment tomorrow morning when there's some signal to play with.Looks like the next step is a bigger/better(/newer) dish - the Optex is 12 years old or so and was pretty cheap to start with. Dishes certainly won't improve with age but is this likely to be a problem?Worth trying e.g. a Gilbertini 85 cm - or is it better to go to up to at least 1 m? Comments / advice gratefully received.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="alec, post: 829206, member: 176125"] Dish 70 x 90 (nominal) Optex (looks like fibreglass) LNB (now) MTI High line Quad Humax Foxsat HDR, Topfield TF4000PVR Longish (20 m -odd) cable run, one join (inside) where the external sections were replaced due to weathering. Quillan (approx. 50 km south of Carcassonne) Since the changeover, Channel 4 HD, 4/seven, 5 receivable at around 90% strength, 50-60% quality (occasional pixellation etc.) mornings only - quality starts to fade at around 12:00, "no or bad signal" by around 15:00. Changed from a Smart Quad to the MTI High Line LNB this afternoon - no change to Astra 1F (rats! - waste of 50 EUR) despite already excellent signal on other Astra 2 channels improving from strength 90-95 to 97-100%, quality 100%. "Nudging" the dish makes no difference - I'll have another go at improving the alignment tomorrow morning when there's some signal to play with. Looks like the next step is a bigger/better(/newer) dish - the Optex is 12 years old or so and was pretty cheap to start with. Dishes certainly won't improve with age but is this likely to be a problem? Worth trying e.g. a Gilbertini 85 cm - or is it better to go to up to at least 1 m? Comments / advice gratefully received. [/QUOTE]

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