Signal percentage

[jontydog]

Still not happy with my motorised set up. Looking in wotsat this month I seem to be missing alot of transponders on certain satellites. What sort of signal do you all get. With my 80cm dish in the north west at the moment I am getting

90% level and 72% quality on 30W Hispasat
87% level and 69% quality on 15W
79% level and 69% quality on 12.W
89% level and 60% quality on 5W
87% level and 67% quality on 13E
91% level and 72% quality on 19E
94% level and 78% quality on 28E

I can't get anything at all between 5W and 13E because of a neighbours tree I assume will know more in the autumn when the leaves start to fall and 16E has disappeared. What sort of readings should I be getting.

[BGonaSTICK]

Looks absolutely fine to me m8. I get similar figures on my SS2, in fact slightly less on the western side.

[jontydog]

hmm still something niggling me that its not right m8 or am I just being picky?

[Mickha]

Different receivers tend to give different readings, the true test is if the signal is strong and doesn't break up when it's raining.
Your figures sound fine, but what transponders are you missing and on which satellites?
Also can you get anything on 16E?
Shame about 10E, 5E, and 1W as this would have helped to show if your arc is true.

[jontydog]

been having a play about and although 30W has dropped by about 2% I have got 16E back and found 22W and 8W so it was definitely slightly out. I am considering moving it (with the mrs permission) to nearer the house because I know I can get 1W there but am worried I would lose 30W in the process. Would I be able to get 30W with a 60cm dish as I have one spare at the moment so I can test it in the new position before putting a pole up.

[madrat]

60cm dish will give you almost everything on 30w, some will be a bit week and some will be missing.

[jontydog]

thanks for that madrat had another play and got the levels up in some places but dropped in others. Going to leave it as it is now too much hassle messing about digging etc. Levels as follows now on the TM1000D

SAT LEVEL QUALITY

30W 88% 69%
22W 87% 76%
15W 89% 72%
12W 82% 75%
8W 87% 66%
5W 86% 62%
13E 89% 70%
16E 83% 72% (on Certain TPs)
19E 93% 73%
23E 94% 79%
28E 94% 78%

[Jimdefruit]

Definitely picky jonty.

If much is missing with those figures, then it is probably out of date transponders.

[jontydog]

yep quite happy with it now Jim Will still probably end up buggering about though I get bored too easily. Just need another length of coax now to loopthru to the SS2