LNB's

[satman72]

Re: LNB's

Well, i always tried to get the lowest lnb, got stuck with two globo goldens and an inverto. (and some old philips from a upc dish) Sometimes I feel like that old philips lnb is a lot better than the new globos... The other thing is that I can barely setup my dish so that every single transponder is watchable even in bad weather. For instance I recently set up the 90cm dish for 1W and some of the telenor channels are totally unwatchable, even at night... (when the sky is clear...)

If you're speaking about nordic channels on 1W, those are transmitted on beam T1, here is the footprint: http://www.telenorsbc.com/templates/Page.aspx?id=735 and K1 http://www.telenorsbc.com/templates/Page.aspx?id=649

Those spots has focus on north Europe, can be you're not covered by it, anyway try to change your LNB, Inverto are good to be a cheap LNB. Also try to point better your dish also rotating the LNB into his case a bit.

[Resident]

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I was actually talking about BBC entertainment and showtime on 0.8W.
Thor 5 (0.8W) - 11325.00 H - Txp: C08 - Beam: Europe
They are totally fine until like 5-6pm then they become choppy as hell. This is actually the inverto lnb so it's not an lnb problem or at least I don't think so. I just don't know how to set it up to make every single channel watchable from 1W. Cause at the moment there are some like these two...

[satman72]

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To set up the dish in best way possible, you just need to tune the most weak signal and move the dish until you'll see signal to increase. If you don't have any instrument to mesure the signal you can use your receiver connected to tv, I know sometime is hard to move the tv on roof to do this...but no other way if you don't have a field mesuring.

[Resident]

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In my case both my dishes are on the balcony and my computer with a ss2 is in my room so it's not too hard to start up prog's sat finder and move the dish around. How do I know which one is the weakest transponder? I mean if I turn the dish to get better signal on this transponder that has BBC Entertainment and Showtime wont that cause some other transponders to give as low signals as this did before I adjusted it? Or we can just clearly say that this transponder is the weakest on 0.8W?

[satman72]

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In my case both my dishes are on the balcony and my computer with a ss2 is in my room so it's not too hard to start up prog's sat finder and move the dish around. How do I know which one is the weakest transponder? I mean if I turn the dish to get better signal on this transponder that has BBC Entertainment and Showtime wont that cause some other transponders to give as low signals as this did before I adjusted it? Or we can just clearly say that this transponder is the weakest on 0.8W?

The weakest trasponder is the one you've problems to receive, ( it is T1 beam is the most narrow tp from 0,8W) so if you've problems on BBC entrataiment it is the right tp to tune your receiver while you'll move your dish. I wish to suggest you before you'll loosen your dish screws, to push gently your dish up down left and right (just force it in all directions one by one) and while you're pushing watch the signal strenght.
In this way you'll see in which direction you'll need to adjust it.
Don't forget when you've loosen screws, to move the dish just a bit! Or you'll loose the signal. Try also to rotate a bit in both directions (clock wise and reverse) the LNB ever checking the signal strenght on your receiver.
Sometime more then one adjustment is needed, eg: to move the dish to left and raise it too. Last advice, do all with calm, for this work can be needed also long time to reach the best result.

[satman72]

Re: LNB's

I was actually talking about BBC entertainment and showtime on 0.8W.
Thor 5 (0.8W) - 11325.00 H - Txp: C08 - Beam: Europe
They are totally fine until like 5-6pm then they become choppy as hell. This is actually the inverto lnb so it's not an lnb problem or at least I don't think so. I just don't know how to set it up to make every single channel watchable from 1W. Cause at the moment there are some like these two...

The tp C8, you are speaking about, is transmitted on T1 beam (nordic and not europe beam) here you can check tp and their beams:

http://www.lyngsat.com/1west.html

and this is the coverage of T1 beam where is transmitted BBC Entratainement:

http://www.telenorsbc.com/upload/new%20footprints/t1_Thor%205%20commercial.png

Like you see it don't covers your country (I suppose you're in Hungary from your flag). Anyway I think you can receive it with 100 cm dish or more to have a stable signal all times. This is sure the weakest signal you can get from 1W, other tp are on other beam more large that cover your country better. So try to do the adjustments I've suggested you into the other post, if you'll not have a stable signal you need to increase your dish size then.

[Resident]

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Man, you are absolutely right! Stupid kingofsat said it was on the european beam not on the nordic... Why the hell would they put this one the nordic beam whereas the rest of the BBC channels are on the European beam?! (Well, probably cause it's the only interesting channel among those BBC channels...) This sucks on ice... Well, I've got a 90cm dish, everything is perfect from 4am till 4pm... oh well, I'm missing out on a couple of 'allo 'allo episodes then... Thanks anyways!

[zoran89]

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Well if you so much whant to watch BBC Entratainement you have one on Hotbird 13E.

[satman72]

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Man, you are absolutely right! Stupid kingofsat said it was on the european beam not on the nordic... Why the hell would they put this one the nordic beam whereas the rest of the BBC channels are on the European beam?! (Well, probably cause it's the only interesting channel among those BBC channels...) This sucks on ice... Well, I've got a 90cm dish, everything is perfect from 4am till 4pm... oh well, I'm missing out on a couple of 'allo 'allo episodes then... Thanks anyways!

I don't know why they've used a TP on nordic beam instead europe beam, can be wasn't avaible TP on european beam. Anyway like you've seen you're just on border of nordic beam, if you'll install a 110 cm dish and good LNB I'm sure you'll can recive also those TP from nordic beam, but this is up to you if are intrested to receive channels of this beam, just for 1 channel I think it is unecessary.
Have fun, bye.

[appswalljuly]

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but probably will be a problem in the

[zoran89]

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but probably will be a problem in the

In the what?

Only problem to recive this TP is in small dish.