New Guy needs help please!!

[satelliteman]

Originally Posted by garylucy

Thanks for the advice,
does using usals make it easier to setup and is it compatible with with diseqc motor.
and what does usals do

USALS is software that can calculate the satellites position to 0.2º based upon a reference which will be your own Longitude & Latitude which you input to the receiver. USALS will work as long as your receiver and motor support, USALS, DiSEqC 1.3 & Goto x.x

[garylucy]

this is excellent thanks to everyones advice i have a signal,
although i mainly want digitalb for the football but i can only get a signal above 40% on a few channels, there is a tree in path of the dish, my dish is on the second floor of house near the roofline the tree is about 14m away and about 7m tall. is there a problem with line of sight.

[Robbo]

No, you won't have a line of site problem with that, you have not given the house height, but assume it is 4m worse case. Then the height diff beween the dish and tree is only 3m, with it being 14m away, this gives a min sat elev of 12º.

[garylucy]

Cheers thats one less thing to worry about, I will try and re-tune the dish in the morning but is there anything i can do to improve the quality of signal for digitalb.

[radtv]

Have you skewed theLNB?

[garylucy]

no i haven't i can't see any way of telling the angle increments on the lnb or the holder, do i have to do this on a motorised system if i do can you tell me how

[Mickha]

On a motorized dish you generally have the cable pointing straight down on the satellite which is closest to due south, which 1W probably is.
It is just a case of gentle manipulation of the dish until you get the strongest signal.

[garylucy]

i have set the cable pointing down when i tuned it to thor, does it mean that skewing the lnb for eulsat w2 will improve my signal. if not would a better lnb help

[Robbo]

Before you start thinking of buying different items, firstly you need to make sure that the dish is accurately aligned to 16E.

The first thing to try is adjusting the position of 16E on the receiver. On the TM you should be able to change 16ºE to another angle say 15.5E, move it in 0.1º increments and see if you can get a better signal.


On a motorised dish, you DON'T adjust the SKEW, leave it at zero, the whole dish together with the LNB gets skewed instead, as the dish moves round.

[garylucy]

everything is slowly becoming clearer now
if i select transponder 11499 which i believe has most of the sport on it i can achieve a signal of 67% by fine moving the motor, does this mean i should move back to thor and try to improve my signal with a sat finder meter.