Installation 60cm dish and trasp. not detected

[Mobley3]

Re: Installation 60cm dish and trasp. not detected

Totally agree with herrr, a bigger dish is your better bet, the only problems I can think of
re the Lnb would be if you had it switched to something else other than Universal, if you had then you would lose certain frequencies on either end of the band, under some circumstances you could lose some transponder due to water ingress or outside interference, Dect phones can also cause problems.

regards mobley3

[buiacco]

Re: Installation 60cm dish and trasp. not detected

Thanks Herrr and Mobley3,
perhapsthe problem is originate from an obstacle just in front of my dish. in fact I've seen that 8 mt in the direction on my focus LNB there is a street lamp. Dish is just focused in the same direction.
I'd like to move just a few to check if I manage to solve the problem, Could it be that street lamp make a kind of shadow on my small dish?
I look forward to receiving your replay.
Have a nice day

[Mobley3]

Re: Installation 60cm dish and trasp. not detected

If you were trying to get a signal from a Sat that was very low on your Horizon, then maybe it would, but, as you live in Europe, then I very much doubt it. All of your available Sats would be too high on the Horizon I believe.

regards mobley3

[runmo]

Re: Installation 60cm dish and trasp. not detected

I have a 1m20 dish on a feet on my balcony, reflection of glass of my balcony, trees and light in front don't have negative influence on reception. The bigger the dish the better the reception, 60cm is small eaven if you are in Europe, I changed from 90 to 1m20 and reception is much better.

[buiacco]

Re: Installation 60cm dish and trasp. not detected

Hi rumno you right but I've to stay very low down on my balcony so I tried to install dish just in line of the street light, Hovewer I'll try to move my dish out of the street lifgt shadow just to check if no interfereces possible. Unfurtunately today it's raining!
I'll let you know.
Thanks.Have anice day.

[toby69]

Re: Installation 60cm dish and trasp. not detected

here in the UK, I use 120cm dish, also for me in Cyprus
I also use a 120cm dish, this receives the pan europe beam on 0.8 west
for sky news fta, I also have a 270cm dish, not in use at the moment,
as members state, I personally would get bigger dish.

120cm dish size seems to be the average size people use.

[herrr]

Re: Installation 60cm dish and trasp. not detected

Thanks Herrr and Mobley3,
perhapsthe problem is originate from an obstacle just in front of my dish. in fact I've seen that 8 mt in the direction on my focus LNB there is a street lamp. Dish is just focused in the same direction.
I'd like to move just a few to check if I manage to solve the problem, Could it be that street lamp make a kind of shadow on my small dish?
I look forward to receiving your replay.
Have a nice day

...........
The dish doesn't look forward, but up...
To have a city lamp between you and sat (I think Hotbird, from Milan) you should stay on the road.

[kalpikos]

Re: Installation 60cm dish and trasp. not detected

Hi buiacco

I think that it's impossible a street lamp to be problem for your reception.

The signal is coming from top of the sky and not from the direction where your dish is pointing.

In case that you want to receive e.g. 30W maybe an obstacle near to you will be a problem, but satellites that you want to receive (19E or 13E) are very high on the sky.

Make your test by moving your dish left or right, but I think that a bigger dish will solve all your issues.

[nml52]

Re: Installation 60cm dish and trasp. not detected

At least one of the transponders you have listed is an Italian broadcaster so as such you would not expect to need a large dish. According to Satbeams you should need a 48cm dish so a larger dish may fix your problem but you should not need it.
What size dish are other people nearby using?
Hope this helps.

[martinforsyth]

Re: Installation 60cm dish and trasp. not detected

Change the background colour on the wall behind the dish, I'm an installer had that problem with a sky dish turned out that it wouldn't pick up certain transponders because the wall was painted black same as the dish strange but true, so I changed the dish for a solid dish after trying 3 more sky dishes and that solved the problem

[kalpikos]

Re: Installation 60cm dish and trasp. not detected

Change the background colour on the wall behind the dish, I'm an installer had that problem with a sky dish turned out that it wouldn't pick up certain transponders because the wall was painted black same as the dish strange but true, so I changed the dish for a solid dish after trying 3 more sky dishes and that solved the problem

I don't think that the color of the wall behind the dish can affect to the sat reception.

It's impossible.

[herrr]

Re: Installation 60cm dish and trasp. not detected


The only chance is that the different paint may contain metallic components...but I don't really believe it...

[Mobley3]

Re: Installation 60cm dish and trasp. not detected

A solid dish would probably give you a better signal, especially if that signal was marginal
to begin with, and also the focal point of the dish would be very different. I would seriously doubt that painting the wall had anything to do with it.

regards mobley3