Just Sharing This Moved house - Scottish Borders dish farm v2 & v3

[Gladstones]

I'm not too far from you. What size dish are you using for the 22W/30W? I'm not getting much more than a peep with 98cm.

i am in Midlothian every thing on 22 w and 30 w strong signal on 100cm
even tried on 75cm still strong signal

 

[Analoguesat]

First time in ages Ive had a chance to tinker with the dishes & I found at least 3 dead lnbs.....

I was wondering why Id lost 46E - nothing was obviously awry & the supporting post Id driven into the ground to strap that dish arm to hadnt moved. Close examination showed a hairline crack in the lnb cover, & when I prodded it my finger went through the plastic! The throat was full of water & the lnb H & V probes were rusty.... Now I know why it wasnt working. So that one has gone in the recycling bin. A couple of the inverto RT duals seem to be dead as a dodo too, although they have been put on one side for further investigation. Ive not had much luck with these - Ive had a spate of failures - often losing the H polarity on them

 

[Analoguesat]

A while since Ive had an update here but over the weekend I had to do some maintenance on the Sky dish (was 60cm oval). The lnb cover had broken & further investigation showed the lnb support had snapped across the top too... No replacements to hand so I removed the dish & replaced it with a standard 60cm round dish. The only multi output lnb was the octo off the old Sky dish from the Galashiels set up so that got put on. The oval dish will be taken apart & stashed in the roof trusses of the garage along with all the other old dishes for use at some point in the future

The "replacement dish" is the usual slightly scruffy type - it was given to me when I visited fm Vipersan a few years ago & has lived outside for several years. It could probably do with the dish support having some black paint blown over it at some point as its a bit rusty now