moving dish from 28.2°E to 19.2°E, lowcost

[bokkie]

Re: moving dish from 28.2°E to 19.2°E, lowcost

The best bet is to buy an 80-90 cm dish to be honest. They are not very expensive and you could either stick a motor on it, or you could make a multi lnb setup and get a couple more sats.
You could do the lot for less than £100 if you do it yourself.

[kalpikos]

Re: moving dish from 28.2°E to 19.2°E, lowcost

Dear @neocid38

I think that your dish is very small and don't worth to move it.
Buy a new one, bigger (90-100 cm) and I'm sure that you will not have any problem.
For the installation , you need a satfinder (10-15E) a compass, some tools for the dish align, a friend and 2 phones.

[pjmuk]

Re: moving dish from 28.2°E to 19.2°E, lowcost

OK, it will help if you or a friend are within shouting distance/on the other end of the phone and can see the TV.

Tune box to a transponder unique to 19e from 28e like 11597 where BBC World News is.

I suggest permanent marker on the dish/arm to indicate current position before moving.

Raise the elevation of the mini dish very slightly.

Nudge the dish very slowly to the left as you are looking at it. It will not be very far, less than 1cm and you should see signal/quality strength shoot up - you should have found 19e.

[neocid38]

Re: moving dish from 28.2°E to 19.2°E, lowcost

I'm actuall in London. So I believe I will give a try with the same dish and skybox f5.
Will try the iPhone apps!
Will give some feedback after trying it!

[pjmuk]

Re: moving dish from 28.2°E to 19.2°E, lowcost

A lot of it depends whereabouts in the UK you are.

The further south the smaller the dish you need for 19e.

If you are in London or South East England a $ly mini dish will work fine.

You will not be able to get any channels on 19e on an official UK $ly box though.

[rikksow]

Re: moving dish from 28.2°E to 19.2°E, lowcost

If you want an app for your iphone try dishpointer I used this and it helps you find where to point your dish.

and something like dreaMote Lite will communicate with your dreambox while you are up the ladder and let you know the signal strength. Not ideal everyone will tell you but without having to buy meters it does the job. I used to pick up 19.2 e & 13e using a monoblock lnb on a 60cm dish in East Anglia & this is how i set mine up.

[mirny]

Re: moving dish from 28.2°E to 19.2°E, lowcost

maybe you can get some SD channels, but for HD channels with 8PSK modulation, you surely need bigger dish 80+
for astra 1KR is recommended 90cm, check beam strenght on kingofsat

[neocid38]

Hi,
I plan to move my Sky dish to get the 19.2°E Spanish and French channels.
my dish is really small, you think it will work? It's the typical Sky dish you see everywhere... don't know the size...
I don't have access to it so I didn't tried to move it yet, will have to get a ladder and just want to know if its worth buying one....

If you think it would work, what advice would you give me? any useful software to help me finding the right position? I have an iPhone that have a compass, maybe it can help.
Just don't want to buy anything if possible. (Already paying too much things)

thanks!