New Dish needed for 28E: Selection and Installation

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Gladstones55 said:
Bit confused what kind of maintenance required for already super strong Gibertini xp dish
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I don't think I mentioned a Gibertini dish, please explain.
 
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For reasons I won't bore you with, I had to delay putting the dish up but that's it done and it looks good. I've put extra bolts on the backplate and a second mast clamp. The plastic LNB holder is unused as I went for the aluminium one.

Yes, the Gibertini does look a good dish and I probably would have gone for it had i known of it but right now, I'm happy. Well, fairly happy - I've a couple of problems still to sort out...

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Two distinct issues after replacing my dish

Hi. I've just replaced my rusted dish with an aluminium one. After doing a factory reset of my Humax FOXSAT-HDR (Freesat) box, I was soon able to get a signal using compass and satellite meter. Under 'Diagnostics', the Humax tells me that both tuners are 100% for signal strength and quality...
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Meantime, many thanks to everyone here who's helped me out.
 
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