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<blockquote data-quote="xerxes" data-source="post: 23214" data-attributes="member: 176073">Funny you should suggest this, rolfw, because my experience with local sat-installers hasn't been the best up until now - can't help feeling the ones I've had contact with would have been happier riding across the Wild West firing their 6-guns. They certainly would have made less holes in my balcony, that's for sure.It had already occurred to me that the main difference between me and an installer is that an installer has got a digital-signal strength meter, and I haven't. I certainly know what to do, and how to do it (no sniggering there in the back, please) but do you think I could lock onto the BBC signal without a meter? It seems to me with a meter it should be pretty easy, but pretty difficult without.Interesting idea, though. My dishes are about 3 metres off the ground, and easily accessible. I'd have a reference with the Sky mini-dish, which I could leave up until the 100 cms was installed. I could get some sort of measurement of the signal &quot;quality&quot; by changing my digibox-receiver default signal to the BBC.I have seen very simple meters advertised for about €30. Would you think that such a meter would be better than nothing, or a waste of money?Xerxes</blockquote>

[QUOTE="xerxes, post: 23214, member: 176073"] Funny you should suggest this, rolfw, because my experience with local sat-installers hasn't been the best up until now - can't help feeling the ones I've had contact with would have been happier riding across the Wild West firing their 6-guns. They certainly would have made less holes in my balcony, that's for sure. It had already occurred to me that the main difference between me and an installer is that an installer has got a digital-signal strength meter, and I haven't. I certainly know what to do, and how to do it (no sniggering there in the back, please) but do you think I could lock onto the BBC signal without a meter? It seems to me with a meter it should be pretty easy, but pretty difficult without. Interesting idea, though. My dishes are about 3 metres off the ground, and easily accessible. I'd have a reference with the Sky mini-dish, which I could leave up until the 100 cms was installed. I could get some sort of measurement of the signal "quality" by changing my digibox-receiver default signal to the BBC. I have seen very simple meters advertised for about €30. Would you think that such a meter would be better than nothing, or a waste of money? Xerxes [/QUOTE]

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