Spanish Gone.. Hello Turkey

watty

DIGITAL FTA (not Analog)

The FTA Spanish at 30W are somewhat boring esp. if you don't speak spanish.

So Using the "Armstrong" rotator on my manual polar mount 1m dish I have moved it round to 42E, TurkSat1C

Discovery is FTA, Turkish on "English" language setting and English on "French" setting.

I'm having trouble with scanning tuning though, even on the 22,000 SR transponder.

Anyone esle on this Bird on Digital?

watty

Another advantage of this Satellite is that the CNBCe channel does lots of US series IN ENGLISH with Turkish subtitles. The Simpsons has less *actual* dialog that needs subtitles than I realised. Is this a part of its popularity?

History Channel (Marked Discovery Turkey) seems mostly dubbed though.

You won't get ANY of this on a Digbox as the SR are every wierd figure from 2400 to 12800 (Digibox only does 22000 and 27500).

I thought the "H" polarisation had gone on my LNB but I notice in www.lyngsat.com that *ALL* the "H" channels are on "East Beam" which might work in Lebanon, India and Iraq but not in Ireland or UK.


This also explains why some channels seem to be there twice.

I had to change my LNB settings to 9754 and 10604 to get the channels to tune in reliably. One or two differ by 1MHz from the Lyngsat list. At SR27,000 or 22,000 even 8Mhz error does not seem to matter, but on the low SR transponders 0.5 MHz error reduces "level" and "1MHz error" can lose the channel.

Only on Telstar 12 at 15W have I had any much low SR channels before. Almost all on the Turksat 1C seem low SR.


My youngest says I should have kept "Discovery" a surprise for Christmas. Of course by then it might be part of some strange Turkish Nagravision Pay TV package.

sayireland

Hi Watty,

If I'm not mistaken are you near the Treaty Stone? Do you do installations? I want to set my Dad up with a dish for the football on 42 E. Tried to send a PM but full.

watty

Treaty Stone: Unless there is second one in Patrickswell?

Installs
Generally for myself only. If someone is into DIY / hobby I do give advice and help. I'm afriad people won't pay what it's worth for Sat Installs or I would be doing it as the "day job". A lot more satisfying than IT work.

PM box fixed. Up to 24hr delay fixing stuff like that as I only read email at Breakfast that was automatically downloaded at 3am on my server. Sorry.


Do you have an Analog or Digital Receiver to connect to 42E?

Can the dish location see the sun at 9.30 10.30am this time of year?

(The sun is on the same arc as the satellites now and in 6 months. Weaker signals get wiped by that big Microwave Transmitter at the time of day it apparently passes the Satellite orbital position)

Delboy79

Tried many times to get Turksat For the football but have never managed to get it. My Digital Reciever has pretuned turksat stations on it already. I ll try it again over the weekend using a 1 meter dish if i cant find Sirius 2

Mossy Monk

i remember the time when i was looking for Turksat. the dish was literally facing into the ground

watty

Remember to set receiver to Low band Vertical when looking for Turksat or your meter won't see any signal. Virtually all the H signals are EAST beam, and most of the receivable channels are in the low band (< 11.7GHz) and Vertical (Analog and Digital). Always examine www.lyngsat.com to see which combination of H/V and High or low (tone on /off) will be the strongest signal to find the satellite.


Must have been an offset dish. When vertical they are really pointing upward about 25 degrees.

I'm using an old centre feed dish I got for 10 Euro with no LNB support arm. Since it *IS* centre feed I made a hlder for lnb out of plastic pipe clip and two angle brackets bolted on 3 lengths of long stud. Started with LNB at calulated distance from dish based on diamanter and depth.

I reckon on Digital you should get stuff on a 80/90 dish. Vertical only and remember nearly 30degrees skew on LNB (facing dish, rotate clockwise off horizontal).

On a polar mount if the LNB is horizontal when dish is due true local south, then the LNB "appears" to "skew" on its own and dish elevation tilt on its own as the dish is rotated on the mount. Which is why I made a home made manual polar mount by mounting a 2nd mount bracket on pole and then a short pole on that pointing north at the correct angle to ground, the dish on its mount is then declined slightly (about 5 degrees) and then rotates around the short angled pole.

Once all the angles are fine tuned you can rotate by hand from 30W, 15W, 5W, 1W, 7E, 10E, 13E, 16E, 19E, 28E and 42E without any LNB adjustment or dish up/down. (Those are the positions I have watched). When a position is fine tuned with sat meter I put a pencil line across the dish bracket to slanty pole. I usually get a signal just moving back to a pencil mark.

Some day I'll get a HH mount motorised with PVR dual tuner receiver.

I havn't looked at what the Analog 42E is like.