New member introductions

[Magmax]

tb 2000. Welcome and enjoy.

 

[PaulR]

Welcome to the forum Tony. Glad to have you on board.

 

[Beli1910]

Welcome

 

[Manikm909]

Hi all,

New here, had satellite TV (then cable then back to satellite!) since the late 90's but only really got into searching for other satellites in the past few years.

Just a simple set-up of Sky Q and a Technomate TM5402 M3 into a diseqc into 4 lnbs on a zone 2 Sky dish (technically 3 on the zone 2 and 1 on our old rusty zone 1)!

Anyway, glad to be here!

Tony

welcome @tb2000 - are you going to start dabbling into motorised?

 

[pontiend]

Welcome to the forum tb2000

 

[tb2000]

Thanks all!

welcome @tb2000 - are you going to start dabbling into motorised?

Probably not, I like the pretty much instantanous switching of the diseqc switch and I don't really have anywhere to put a motorised setup with a decently sized dish at this time (i'd probably want at least a 1m dish for that to make sure)! I'm pretty happy with the Sky Zone 2 dish with 28.2e, 19.2e and 13e lnbs on it and the old Zone 1 pointing at 9e (sitting in what is basically a big flower pot in the patio! ) I've tried for 5w on it but can't seem to pick it up, and there's a clear line of sight to it far as I can tell. Probably needs a bit bigger dish! As it is, it picks up all of the 9e transponders apart from 1 for some reason (12245 H on the German beam) and obviously the Italian beam ones. A few transponders disappear in bad weather. Maybe i'll get another larger dish, bolt it to the back of the house and get an 8 way diseqc at some point in the future!

 

[Shaky1105]

Hi all, newbie here. Just bought a new LG OLED TV that has freesat as well as freeview on it. I've decided to fit a dish so I've got the options of both but seeing as I've seen a few comments online about having problems getting the setup correct thought it would be a good idea to register here to get a good, unbiased view about what would be the best setup to get before I start throwing £ needlessly at it

Sure I'll enjoy the learning experience - TIA to anyone that offers help once I post my first Q

 

[Llew]

to the forum Shaky1105.

Someone on the forum will no doubt try to help with any questions you have on your proposed setup.

 

[ozumo]

Welcome @Shaky1105

 

[Shaky1105]

Thanks for the friendly welcome everybody . I'll prolly post later and give as much info as poss. Looking forward to finding out how to set it all up.

 

[Manikm909]

Welcome @Shaky1105 have fun. Lots of extreme talent on here

 

[Magmax]

Wwlcome.

 

[marrull]

Just joined. I was reading the forum in the past but now I decided to join since I have some issues with my new antenna rotor sosome threads will come. I am interested in amateur satellite DSN and LEO reception and I am looking to build a system for S and X bands.

 

[PaulR]

Hello marrull and welcome to the forum. Enjoy your time here.