Multi sat set up

[GastonJ]

Damn I missed this thread Shady, although not on the day
I normally line my middle LNB up first - current line dup on 19 East oddly enough. Then set up 1w and 42e - then recheck those 3 to make sure I've followed the line correctly with elevation, skew and the like. After that it's a matter of slotting the others between 1w and 42e easy really. After the first few times it becomes second nature to estimate which satellites are where. The detail after that is setting up 22+ patch leads to my 16 port switches, nightmare when everything is attached.

Sorry I wasn't around much, weekend, bike weather.... few and far between but glad you got it sorted

[Shady]

Thanks for everyones help on this thread, without the advice and above all encouragement, i probably would have give up. I know at leats that i can get both 13 e and 19 e, tomorrow ill re focus with 13e as prime .


I hope some of the plug and play brigade see this thread and decide to play a bit rather than just be happy with 28.2e. Yes the hobbies infuriating at time, but when everything comes together, its one of the best feelings

[Shady]

well, 13e as prime. signal strong, cant get 19.2 at the same time tho deffo bigger dish.. orrrr set 13e on 60 and pick up a chepo sly dish for 19.2 on same pole.

[Shady]

heres my set up (wires not tidied up yet as i still have tweaking to do..) after looking at other set ups then 19e should be a lnbs width away from 13e. however, i cant get 19e. I keep coming back to the assumption that the dish isnt big enough, but then i see pictures of smaller dishes with a similar set up as i am attempting.
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[ramjet]

you should have no trouble getting both of those satellites using that size dish
the lnb,s look too far apart to me though, I would have thought there should be about an inch between them, and no more than two inches
the slope of the rack itself doesnt seem acute enough either, it looks horizontal in your picture
check the picture of the sly zone 2 dish in this thread that has 5 lnb,s on it

[Shady]

turns out, agreeing with popular opinion, that im a knob .. i had 19.2 lnb to the right of 13e (looking from front of dish) when it needs to be to the left

[ramjet]

turns out, agreeing with popular opinion, that im a knob .. i had 19.2 lnb to the right of 13e (looking from front of dish) when it needs to be to the left

that was what I was just wondering having studied the picture once more
many people make that mistake as they dont consider the fact that the signal bounces at an angle off the dish

[Shady]

weird one now.. setting satfinder to 10743 22000 5/6 horizontal which SHOULD be the transponder for arte, tagenschaue etc, but picking up rte one etc from 28.2e

[mdt]

use txp 12.692.H.22000.5/6 (orf txp) for 19.2e as there is no duplicate on 28.2e,regards mdt

[ramjet]

weird one now.. setting satfinder to 10743 22000 5/6 horizontal which SHOULD be the transponder for arte, tagenschaue etc, but picking up rte one etc from 28.2e

well, the satellites will go from right to left in order and many transponders are duplicated too so its not weird at all

so 28e is further to the left than 19e so basically you have gone too far to the left and got 28e and not 19e

as I said earlier, study the zone 2 picture with the 5 lnb,s on it in post 11 by ged

[Shady]

Finally!!! in the high 70's / 80s signal strength on both 13 and 19.2. Happy days are here again...


until i mess around adding another sat
rep added all round

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like i said previously i have 28.2e on another dish, 16e is out due to not having bullet nosed lnbs, but ive got plenty of space to the right of 13 and to the left of 19.2e (from front of dish), so any recommendations? i suppose ideally id be adding sats below 13e as 13e is my prime and dont fancy shifting dish about again

[Shady]

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left to right, 19.2, 13e, 4.8e.
4.8 is really low snr and i pull in about 90 channels with it, would i be better off sliding it to the right to get 0.8?

[mdt]

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left to right, 19.2, 13e, 4.8e.
4.8 is really low snr and i pull in about 90 channels with it, would i be better off sliding it to the right to get 0.8?

i think your pushing it asking for 4.8east although the european beam booms in with astra1N/2F levels and as for 1 west forget it as your using a td64 and you will be 14 degree,s off prime focus. you could get 10/9 east/7east together (some txp,s) due to the wide beamwidth of a 64cm dish. keep experimenting untill you get what your happy with... id say go with 23.5e/19.2e/13e or 13e/19.2e/23.5e. this is the fun of it all seeing what you can get with what you have and squeezing every last drop of signal from your system,enjoy!!! regards mdt

[ramjet]

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left to right, 19.2, 13e, 4.8e.
4.8 is really low snr and i pull in about 90 channels with it, would i be better off sliding it to the right to get 0.8?

those 2 sats are aimed towards the scandinavian countries and so we get fringe reception really, so maybe not

read what mdt has told you and ideally concentrate on the stronger satellites where the uk is more inside their footprint

there are 13e 16e 19e 23.5e 28e 39e

you could hang an lnb off the sly dish and get 39e

and with a different dish 30w is strong here too

what members like yourself need to bear in mind is that the uk is not the focus of all of those satellites up there
if we were you would get good signals from all of them on a saucepan lid

[Shady]

i realise that the uk is not the focus of all the sats up there ram, but i have seen pics of smaller dishes with 4.8e on ill try with 39e tomorrow. then ill start thinking about a bigger dish