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Dr Rott
25th September, 2011, 11:15 AM
Hi, jumping straight in at the deep end with no experience, I have nailed a T90 torroidal dish to the wall, stuck 4 Inverto black ultra lnb's on it and fiddled with it 'till it worked.
Using a clone DM500 box and scanning 4 sats, I can recieve the following amount of services.-
5E - 485
13E - 1283
16E - 295
19E - 840

I was just wondering if this is about right for a 90 cm dish in the south midlands or do I need to tweak it some more?

RuberDuck
25th September, 2011, 11:25 AM
yes that looks about rite with a SD box as you would obviously not pull in the HD channels.

Dr Rott
25th September, 2011, 12:05 PM
It would detect the HD channels though and include them in the scan?

dctyper
25th September, 2011, 12:30 PM
looks ok to me, how did you find the setting up of the dish, im constantly tinkering with mine, ive found that i need top quality lnbs to get all transponders and it can be a bit iffy in the winter months

dc

dick b
25th September, 2011, 12:35 PM
It would detect the HD channels though and include them in the scan?

an sd receiver will detect HD channels if they are DVB/S but not if they are DVB/S2

Dr Rott
25th September, 2011, 12:45 PM
looks ok to me, how did you find the setting up of the dish, im constantly tinkering with mine, ive found that i need top quality lnbs to get all transponders and it can be a bit iffy in the winter months

dc

Found it pretty easy once I gave up trying to use 16E as my central satellite and used 13E instead! I am using Inverto Black Ultra lnb's as these seem pretty highly rated. I guess time and fiddling will tell over this winter!

Dr Rott
25th September, 2011, 12:46 PM
an sd receiver will detect HD channels if they are DVB/S but not if they are DVB/S2

Thanks, that's a lot clearer now!