fastglass
Member
- Joined
- Feb 17, 2010
- Messages
- 15
- Reaction score
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- Age
- 43
- My Satellite Setup
- Old Sky minidish, Philex 80cm dish, Triax TD88 dish, Humax Foxsat HD receiver, Technomate TM600 receiver.
- My Location
- Notts, UK @ 53.14N
Thanks for the informative replies, muchly appreciated.
@ sonnetpete
I do have an in-line needle/beep meter, but havent used it on the motorised setup - I've used dishpointer_com to find roughly south, and used the motor setup on-screen settings to tune the dish E/W to try finding any signals. (ps. I did find that the scales on the dish didn't seem to quite match up with each other, in that 53deg latitude didn't match up to 37deg elevation, according to the manual!)
The angle of the photo may be deceiving. When/if the dish ever points around to 42E (for example, Turksat), the dish needs to creep over the eaves. The height of the setup enables this, with only centimeters between the dish and the roof.
@ satelliteman
The mast is an aluminium aerial mast which I picked up in B&Q... it does seem rather thin, and the dish does wobble around a bit in the brereze. I'm thinking I may need to upgrade to a scoffold pole afterall.
@ Mickha
Yeah, personally I think it's a mixture of two things with the elevation on the fixed dish...
(i) The elevation scale bolts and fixings are crap to say the least, which came with the dish, and the scale itself might as well not be there, it's so feint!
(ii) The wall bracket is that from a $ky Minidish, and seems to go off-plumb a bit, once the bigger dish is attached.
Following from my reply to satelliteman above, I may end up getting a scaffold pole for the motorised dish, and using part of the aluminium mast for the fixed dish.
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The main problem I have with the setup is that, it's awkward to gain access to the mast, in that I am using a set of 4-section multiway ladders as a roof-ladder against the garage roof tiles (in photo) and even then struggling to keep balance and take the weight of the fixings. Add to this the fact that I'm not at my most confident when above floor-level, I just wish it was all installed and out the way!
Dying to start scanning the skies, but until then, I'm just going to have to be patient!
Cheers guys . FG
@ sonnetpete
I do have an in-line needle/beep meter, but havent used it on the motorised setup - I've used dishpointer_com to find roughly south, and used the motor setup on-screen settings to tune the dish E/W to try finding any signals. (ps. I did find that the scales on the dish didn't seem to quite match up with each other, in that 53deg latitude didn't match up to 37deg elevation, according to the manual!)
The angle of the photo may be deceiving. When/if the dish ever points around to 42E (for example, Turksat), the dish needs to creep over the eaves. The height of the setup enables this, with only centimeters between the dish and the roof.
@ satelliteman
The mast is an aluminium aerial mast which I picked up in B&Q... it does seem rather thin, and the dish does wobble around a bit in the brereze. I'm thinking I may need to upgrade to a scoffold pole afterall.
@ Mickha
Yeah, personally I think it's a mixture of two things with the elevation on the fixed dish...
(i) The elevation scale bolts and fixings are crap to say the least, which came with the dish, and the scale itself might as well not be there, it's so feint!
(ii) The wall bracket is that from a $ky Minidish, and seems to go off-plumb a bit, once the bigger dish is attached.
Following from my reply to satelliteman above, I may end up getting a scaffold pole for the motorised dish, and using part of the aluminium mast for the fixed dish.
***
The main problem I have with the setup is that, it's awkward to gain access to the mast, in that I am using a set of 4-section multiway ladders as a roof-ladder against the garage roof tiles (in photo) and even then struggling to keep balance and take the weight of the fixings. Add to this the fact that I'm not at my most confident when above floor-level, I just wish it was all installed and out the way!
Dying to start scanning the skies, but until then, I'm just going to have to be patient!
Cheers guys . FG