sirius & Amos but no Thor!

[yat360]

I've managed to find both sirius & Amos but I can't for the life of me find Thor!! I know it is in between those two but no matter how slight I move the dish I just cannot locate it!!! Any suggestions?

[Analoguesat]

Where are you located, what size dish are you using? And if you are in western Europe are you sure you are receiving Amos - the signals are exceptionally weak over here.

[yat360]

Originally Posted by Analoguesat

Where are you located, what size dish are you using? And if you are in western Europe are you sure you are receiving Amos - the signals are exceptionally weak over here.

Hull, East Yorks. I'm using an 85 cm dish. I have a Fortec Star Passion reciever . I knew that I had a strong signal for a sat so I went through each sat on the system to see which had a signal. It was Sirius. Strong too. I gradually move it westward, until I got another signal. It was very close. Very little movement between the two. Again, I selected the sats around Sirius on the receiver to see which had the signal and it was Amos. Both the strength indicators were around 70%.

Is my receiver deceiving me? I really wanted Thor!

[RamsFan]

I also have the Fortec Star Passion HD receiver, and i find it very dodgy when coming to receiving channels from certain satellites.

I have a fixed dish on 28.2 E and receive all channels on it.

But i can flick through other satellites and have signals on them... Which i don't think is possible...

I have also managed to receive channels through other satellites apparantly, but there just ones from Astra 2 (28.2) which i find strange.

[robbo71]

You cannot rely on the signal quality reading alone.

You must do a scan to see what channels there are and see if they match up to what you were expecting.

Just scan the single transponder.

Originally Posted by RamsFan

But i can flick through other satellites and have signals on them... Which i don't think is possible...

Yes, it is possible, because other satellites share the same transponder frequencies.
But as above, doing a scan will prove that you are being deceived.

Robbo

[Analoguesat]

You wont get anything off Amos with a tiddly 85cm dish in Yorkshire

[RamsFan]

Originally Posted by robbo71

Yes, it is possible, because other satellites share the same transponder frequencies.

Robbo

Ah right, ok then. I just thought it was strange that after doing a Multisat scan for the fun of it, i could receive channels from 13.0, 19.2, 23.5, 26, 28.2, and 33.0 E

Thought it was the Fortec being weird, guess not then..

Guess its not what i was thinking then yat360

[yat360]

Well, I've now aligned the dish to Sirius. That's what it tells me. there are a nuber of scrambled channels a lot are under the banner Premiere. From the writing they appear to be German!

[robbo71]

That is 19.2E then.

Make a note of a channel name and frequency and consult Lyngsat.

[yat360]

Originally Posted by robbo71

That is 19.2E then.

Make a note of a channel name and frequency and consult Lyngsat.

Some Austrian too!!

It is still telling me it is Sirius 2,3 5.0 E 12054 V 27500.