Newbie Help - What Equipment

[robbo71]

80cm is the bare minimum for 16E, it depends on your location.

42E is a different matter entirely, you can get many of the transponders on a zone1 minidish, it depends which ones you are after.

Incidently I just upgraded my 80cm Fortec star to a 1m Orbital. And to be honest, ( I have not finished tweaking yet) it doesn't seem to be any better than the 80cm that I had before. The Gibertini 1m dishes are supposed to perform well. I should have got one of those.

[clubfoot]

I've just been reading your thread on another forum about you thinking of installing your old dish!!

I think I will go for the 80cm dish.

It's turksat 2a im after. If I can get a good signal on turksat 2a and 16e with a 80cm dish, im sorted anything else will be a bonus.

[clubfoot]

Another thing that was bugging me was will the motor send the dish so far east or west causing it to bash in to the wall or is there a enough clearance or some kind of setting to stop it doing this??

forgive me if that sounds ludicrous!!

[robbo71]

Originally Posted by clubfoot

I've just been reading your thread on another forum about you thinking of installing your old dish!!

I think I will go for the 80cm dish.

It's turksat 2a im after. If I can get a good signal on turksat 2a and 16e with a 80cm dish, im sorted anything else will be a bonus.

Well, I have not finished playing with it yet, theoretically it should be better. I am trying for a fringe satellite, I can get all the usuals fine.
I may even give it a couple of months and get a Gibertini instead.

You will have no problems at all on the 2a western beams, we are way off the footprints for the eastern beams, so no chance with 'normal' sized dish.

The T&K brackets come in different lengths, starting from 12 inch. A bit of geometry will tell you if it will hit the wall or not, it depends how much the dish bracket sticks out, plus you have the length of the motor too, and also how far round you rotate the dish, and the exact direction of the wall. Limits can be setup within the motor, so it doesn't hit the wall.

[clubfoot]

ok thats cleared that up.

one last question!!!

I think im clear on everything about the installation.......but....

Once ive set the motor to 0 and pointed the dish at south, i then tell the motor to go to 1w, thor, on the reciever. In the tutorials i have read it then tells me to fiddle with the whole set up on the pole to get best signal on that satellite, i then tighten everything up.

Is that the dish and motor then set up complete? Will it theoretically then be able to track the arc with out any more manual tinkering to the dish? And will then will i be able to send the motor to all satellites without fine tuning with the dish?