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<blockquote data-quote="D4ftpunk" data-source="post: 1166710" data-attributes="member: 182463">Firstly, thanks everyone for your help recently <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> usual suspects; it started with re-aligning an old Sky dish to 13.0E, moved onto a multi dish setup, then to a &quot;MULTYTENNE quad LNB mini dish&quot; and now I've added a motorised 65cm/70cm square dish (Technisat) into the mix (largest I can fit into the constraints of my roof unfortunately.With that, I managed to setup the dish without much drama. Started with true-south, setup the latitude alignment on the mount; made sure everything was dead on, 0 skew on LNB. No signal, then calibrated it and got a decent fix on Astra 2 (98%) then assumed everything else would be fine. On the basis of that assumption; did some scans, picked up quite a bit and was pleased... However I have a few questions before I tinker further...- What are the East/West limits I should expect with such a setup? (for example, I cannot get 53.0E Express AM6, but at the same time didn't really expect to with such sized dish.)- Should I expect to be able to fix on any satellite within those limits, or does it depend on their footprints?- If I have a great fix on what I calibrated it to (Astra 2) can I assume everything else will fall in? or should I pick something and fine tune further? - Anyone recommend some decent / interesting sats or frequencies to play with? P.S. yes I know the L bracket I have is rubbish, but I needed something very very low profile from the wall to stop the LNB hitting the nearby panels.[ATTACH=full]158413[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="D4ftpunk, post: 1166710, member: 182463"] Firstly, thanks everyone for your help recently :D usual suspects; it started with re-aligning an old Sky dish to 13.0E, moved onto a multi dish setup, then to a "MULTYTENNE quad LNB mini dish" and now I've added a motorised 65cm/70cm square dish (Technisat) into the mix (largest I can fit into the constraints of my roof unfortunately. With that, I managed to setup the dish without much drama. Started with true-south, setup the latitude alignment on the mount; made sure everything was dead on, 0 skew on LNB. No signal, then calibrated it and got a decent fix on Astra 2 (98%) then assumed everything else would be fine. On the basis of that assumption; did some scans, picked up quite a bit and was pleased... However I have a few questions before I tinker further... - What are the East/West limits I should expect with such a setup? (for example, I cannot get 53.0E Express AM6, but at the same time didn't really expect to with such sized dish.) - Should I expect to be able to fix on any satellite within those limits, or does it depend on their footprints? - If I have a great fix on what I calibrated it to (Astra 2) can I assume everything else will fall in? or should I pick something and fine tune further? - Anyone recommend some decent / interesting sats or frequencies to play with? P.S. yes I know the L bracket I have is rubbish, but I needed something very very low profile from the wall to stop the LNB hitting the nearby panels.[ATTACH type="full"]158413[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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