Is viasat reachable in west ireland

[Analoguesat]

U are lucky and I have a Channel master 1.8m

A dish that size needs setting up by someone who knows exactly what they are doing with big dishes, and knows how to use a meter.

 

[thedriver 08]

its usually at 55% for me on a clear day on a tm6900 super but drops to 47% in the evening any rain and its gone

 

[Djskutz]

U serious, that's high and how can it be braking up

 

[Djskutz]

Hopefully it'll be sorted Saturday so, Belfast Chris is sorting me out but would of love to have of done it
Myself

 

[Analoguesat]

U serious, that's high and how can it be braking up

Remember that signal strength meters on receivers are really meaningless. Change the receiver hooked up to a particular dish and tune the same channel & you will get different readings. Try a third receiver and you will get different readings again

The meters should only be used as a guide to how that receiver is performing.

 

[Djskutz]

so what ur saying is meters are the only way to install any kind of sat?

 

[Analoguesat]

Not at all - Ive installed dishes dozens of times (both permanently and temporary lashups) just using a receiver and an old tv propped up on a workmate in the garden.

Just dont get hung up on in the sort of scenario where "Mr Smith is getting 60% signal on a 1m dish and Im only getting 52% on my 1.8m dish". The comparison is meaningless - as different receiver makes and models all give different readings..

However the biggest dish Ive ever tinkered with is a 1m - bigger dishes have narrower acceptance angles and a 1.8m dish will be very difficult to set up accurately for weak signals without a proper meter

 

[Mrtayto]

This has been tried in dublin by a couple of lads i know personally with poor results. These guys got a dish 1.8 over from the uk just to discover poor results on the nordic beam.

 

[Djskutz]

What kinda dish are we talking about, hardly a channel master

 

[Mrtayto]

What kinda dish are we talking about, hardly a channel master

Im not 100% sure it was just on loan to see the results, but i do think it was a 1.8 but i know they werent hitting the nordic beam enough to warrant success because we were all waiting for results of the test to see will we start buying viasat and it hasent happened

 

[Djskutz]

Is this info from zinteck, probably so, Steve that I bought the channels master from @ satellitetv.ie(hope im not breaking rules by mentioning this site said ill def get it as he was picking it up on a meter in claremorris co. mayo

 

[Mrtayto]

Yes it is,
did steve def tell you will get the nordic beam? HD channels

 

[Djskutz]

He said I'll def get the Nordic beam but no hd channels just sd

 

[Mrtayto]

Ah ok, just out of interest if he's getting it in on a meter dish what possessed you to buy a 1.8 CM? nice dish thou

 

[Djskutz]

Sorry I meant 1.8m mister tayto, my mistake, that's the reason I got it, I will know for def Saturday if I can get it cuz A installer is coming to do it for me, so fingers crossed

 

[Djskutz]

The meter I meant to was a sat meter lol

 

[Mrtayto]

The meter I meant to was a sat meter lol

Explain this?

 

[Djskutz]

Right these iPhones are a nightmare to text, Steve was getting the Nordic beam on a 1.8m cm dish while using a satellite meter to tune it in! Does that make sense

 

[Mrtayto]

Yes well you will def need one for that dish.

 

[Analoguesat]

Is this info from zinteck, probably so, Steve that I bought the channels master from @ satellitetv.ie(hope im not breaking rules by mentioning this site said ill def get it as he was picking it up on a meter in claremorris co. mayo

Whilst I wish you well with your quest for the Nordic beam, just because a chap a few miles away gets a particular signal it doesn't mean you will definitely get it as well.

In extreme fringe reception reception can vary wildly over a few miles with "hotspots" and "coldspots" These are caused by minute imperfections in the transmission dish.