Is this dish ok?

[garyg]

quick note steve that 2nd coax you ran in wont seem to pull any signal lol

p.s restarted the box and working lol

 

[Channel Hopper]

p.s restarted the box and working lol

As usual, first blame the workman......

 

[garyg]

As usual, first blame the workman......

LOL typical english

 

[Analoguesat]

AN excellent result Gary. Im delighted to hear the dish is now performing as it should be. Enjoy your extra footy programming

 

[pipino]

lovely jobly guys..i specialy like the idea of C-band scalar ring with ADF120 feedhorn, ...well done gary for your persistance..it was hell of a saga well worth following in daily bases..LOL...best regards

 

[petediscrete]

Well garyg all good things come to those who wait.Firstly nice result on the dish.Secondly it helps to have "old pros" in a time of crisis to lend a helping hand and finally no more unecessary expense buying another big dish.BTW your garden looks like the SKY- SNG centre, GCHQ at Cheltenham or ATC at Heathrow.Be careful you don't have that tosser from SKY- News calling out to do an uplink or any planes looking for ATC clearance before they land.As I said before when you get a few games under your belt it would be nice to do a roundup post on your experience.Definitely a candidate for a gold star stickie (syrup and all)

 

[garyg]

Thanks guys!

Dont worry i wont be going anywhere, i will let you all know how it goes signal wise over the next few days with rain due

 

[wod]

what you using the 1.2m for now ? and I see you've already started on something else collecting old car exhausts in the background

 

[garyg]

the 1.2m is on 5E i used it at the weekend on viasat and the 2.5M on 16E for tring

And i know! the whole gardens a junk yard at the moment, I am waiting to sort a skip out and skip all the junk! lol

 

[garyg]

woke up this morning and signal is bad 44%

But... we setup the dish and started peaking the signal around half 3, thats at the hardest point of the day to get signal and was getting 55%, im not sure if thats because the satellite moves abit?? I am not sure... so maybe as the day goes on it will increase back up, we shal see!

 

[Lazarus]

Does it remain locked at 44% or is it absent or pixellating badly?


(Good morning, by the way)

 

[garyg]

it was jumping 43/44, 43 pixel'd and 44 was fine however its already gone up to 46%, no change in weather conditions

(good morning )

 

[Lazarus]

Ok.

Lots of issues at play here ............... weather can clearly play a role, but time of day, time of year and many other factors can play a part. And not just factors affecting your end, but also things like the constantly varying attitude and exposure of the Satellite's solar panels can affect marginal reception.

 

[garyg]

hmm yeh,

I will monitor the signals throughout the day and see how it performs

Hopefully it gets stronger as the day goes on otherwise im not sure what happened over night lol

 

[petediscrete]

woke up this morning and signal is bad 44%

But... we setup the dish and started peaking the signal around half 3, thats at the hardest point of the day to get signal and was getting 55%, im not sure if thats because the satellite moves abit?? I am not sure... so maybe as the day goes on it will increase back up, we shal see!

garyg to clarify are you locked on to BADR 6 at 26e or Nilesat at 7w.I was just curious how both satellites were behaving.Also what was your Tring experience like.

 

[garyg]

garyg to clarify are you locked on to BADR 6 at 26e or Nilesat at 7w.I was just curious how both satellites were behaving.Also what was your Tring experience like.

badr6 26e mate, no chance of AB4a 7.2W in the UK.

Tring is "ok"... Picture bitrate is very low but they have the games as per schedules so i guess you get what you pay for

Tring works lovely in my cardsplitter aswell

 

[pipino]

gary have you considered trying another LNB to improve the signal..like Inverto Black Ultra(modified)?? i have cases with Astra2D here in spain ,,thru critical moments during the day i lose some channels from the north Beam completly (like Sky news HD)and that when using Invacom Quad QDF31 ,but swaping to the modified Black Ultra ...the signal´s back

 

[garyg]

gary have you considered trying another LNB to improve the signal..like Inverto Black Ultra(modified)?? i have cases with Astra2D here in spain ,,thru critical moments during the day i lose some channels from the north Beam completly (like Sky news HD)and that when using Invacom Quad QDF31 ,but swaping to the modified Black Ultra ...the signal´s back

Hi mate, what is the modified black ultra? Is it different to the black ultra or just another name?

Also the signals improving about 1% just under an hour at the moment and after speaking to someone he said after 12 it shoots back up. Stupid satellite! lol

 

[Sandybob]

Gary, not quite the same but I just checked my 1.2m on badr 4 and the signal has dropped for me from the usual 76% to 66%, although I wiped the raindrops off the lnb and it jumped back up to 70%. It just goes to show how much the weather effects fringe reception. I know you have a prime focus dish so rain on the lnb "shouldn't" be a problem but may be worth a quick check. Unfortunatley we can't do anything about rain/moisture in the air except pray! Hope this helps just a little.

 

[pipino]

Hi mate, what is the modified black ultra? Is it different to the black ultra or just another name?

Also the signals improving about 1% just under an hour at the moment and after speaking to someone he said after 12 it shoots back up. Stupid satellite! lol

http://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/...verto-twin-black-ultra-flange-convertion.html