Thor in northwest

[homerjay]

Does anyone know if its possible to get 1 west up in rainy lancashire, seeing as i aint getting nowt on 13e, 19e or 30w at the minute...

I have a Skystar2, an 80cm dish and an 0.6db lnb...

cheers

 

[rolfw]

Should be fine up there with your equipment, can get it with an 80cm easily down South.

 

[homerjay]

cheers, dint wanna spend hours messing and discover i'm wastin my time...

 

[PaulR]

It's really better with a 1m dish up here. 80cm is a bit marginal unless you've got a well matched setup.

PaulR

 

[homerjay]

i'm really struggling ere, anyone got any tips for finding 1w manually, i can find 13e, 19e or 30w within about 5 mins...

 

[rolfw]

Bear in mind that 1W is at a higher elevation than the others, you also need to make sure tha you are searching on atransponder that you can see.

 

[homerjay]

done that, i'm elevated to 29 degrees now... still nothing...

this maybe a dumb question but does the rain and cloud make a diffenrence?

whats a good stong transponder, im currently trying on 11216v

 

[rolfw]

Yes, that should be OK, as long as you have the symbol rate at 24,500.

 

[homerjay]

cheers, i think a bit of fine tuning and lot of patience is needed...