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fish fingers

Lads i had a go at aligning my sat from hotbird to 16 deg. Nothing happening . Im looking for someone to align my dish for me. I have my digitalb card . I would like to get it done before season starts. Im living in Oranmore ,outside Galway city. Can anyone help me ,or give me a phone number of installer. Ill only be messing around with it and get nowhere. Cheers

wil

Ciarann had similar problems recently and I think soneone was asking about Digit Alb
He was having problems getting a decent picture on a 1.1m in Dublin so I suspect you will need bigger in the west.
I had a quick look at that sat 16e a few days ago with a 90cm in Dublin. Didnt spend too much time alligning but of the FTV channels only one is strong - Alsat AFAICR, so set your receiver to this and allign.
About 10 or 12 other channels came in ok after some fine-allignment,
I used Footie Channel to fine-allign.
I only got a few others with broken pictures.
Scanned for DigitAlb but didnt get a signal so suspect you need a bigger dish or perfect allignment
If you are looking for this sat, mark off Hotbird and Astra1 then scan your dish between the 2 till you find Alsat, Fine-tune with Footie or other weak channel.

mayto

i take it you got a basic sat meter and at least 80cm dish.i could get 16e with 80cm lidl dish i used to use. what i would do is mark on bracket where hotbird is and astra2(19east) . you know then 16e is between these two points. just rotate dish slowly at different angles till you get a signal. ideally i would recommend a motorised setup to get many satellites . i got diseqc motors and brackets for a few mates with lidl dish's and they installed them no problem.

yellabelly

I'm struggling to get 16e in Meath with a 1m motorised dish and a Dreambox. I think my dish might be slightly out of alignment. The Dreambox tuner isn't the best. Should the 16e channels be ok in bad weather?

ethernet

fish fingers wrote:

Lads i had a go at aligning my sat from hotbird to 16 deg. Nothing happening . Im looking for someone to align my dish for me. I have my digitalb card . I would like to get it done before season starts. Im living in Oranmore ,outside Galway city. Can anyone help me ,or give me a phone number of installer. Ill only be messing around with it and get nowhere. Cheers

Try Ken Carr in Gort [main street] or Tommy Roddy [contact details on website].

fish fingers

tommy roddy has given up the sat. business for the forseeable future.
I rang him first off because he aligned my dish to hotbird last year.
Cheers for responses

yellabelly

Can anyone report joy with 16e?

fish fingers

not me anyways

Smeagol

Just tuned in W2 16°e.
Strongest FTA-TP here is @ 11595v 28800 7/8 (Balkanika ...): SS 53% SQ 62%
Digialb @ 11449h 27500 7/8 (Premium1 ...) comes in with: SS 55% SQ 72%
All with a Humax 5300 on motorized 1.1m Triax dish @ IO54VC

yellabelly

There is hope then for 16e in Ireland. I'll have a go at realigning my dish and report back.

tjspock

can recieve digitalb with 1m dish and technomate here in kerry

yellabelly

16e wasn't setup correctly in my receiver. After putting this right I can get

11595v 28800 7/8 (Balkanika): SNR 75% AGC 82%
11449h 27500 7/8 (Premium1): SNR 70% AGC 76%
Running a Dreambox 7020 with 1m dish in Meath. Good timing for Saturday! Thanks

byte

Judging by the posts here, I think it's safe to assume my Triax TD78 ain't gonna be any good receiving W2 in Donegal.