Large Dish Installations

Greenman

snaps wrote: »

. comes in handy when your tucked up in bed and dont want to turn on main reciever downstairs to switch satellites.

Did you ever those 2.4 ghz video senders thingies? we've got 3 sets running in the house.

M5

snaps wrote: »

Keeping any kinda percepitaion off the LNB cap helps keeping a weaker signal coming in during rain etc. Snow is a killer for satellite reception. Snow really soaks up the signal. Ive found when it rains (Not heavy) with my lnb cover on mbc on 26east keeps coming in.



Obviously you cant have all recievers on at same time unless you are watching the same satellite (Polorisation). A priority switch does what it says, connects 2 recievers before the motor (Instead of having 1 reciever connected to the motor and the other reciever connected to a second output on the lnb).
So both recievers are able to drive the motor. comes in handy when your tucked up in bed and dont want to turn on main reciever downstairs to switch satellites.

any chance you can post the make and model (or a link), would like to pick up something like that myself! cheers

Zaphod

Some nice pics in this thread. Might be an idea to have a sticky so that everyone can show their own setups, similar to the ones on satellites.co.uk and other forums.

Greenman

Zaphod wrote: »

Some nice pics in this thread. Might be an idea to have a sticky so that everyone can show their own setups, similar to the ones on satellites.co.uk and other forums.

I'd second that, I love looking at other peoples sat pics.

So how about it Mr Mod?

snaps

Greenman wrote: »

Did you ever those 2.4 ghz video senders thingies? we've got 3 sets running in the house.

Yes i have some already that feeds 3 other rooms in the house from my main technomate downstairs. Because i live on an estate peoples microwaves and wifi plays havoc with them and sometimes they are unwatchable

Greenman

snaps wrote: »

Yes i have some already that feeds 3 other rooms in the house from my main technomate downstairs. Because i live on an estate peoples microwaves and wifi plays havoc with them and sometimes they are unwatchable

Know what you mean.

We use little baby FM transmitters connected to various sat receivers. So we are all in our heaven. As I type the wood stove is keeping us nice and warm in Belgium and I'm listening to The Mooney show. Wife is on M6 TV and the young lad on Youtube.

Some might say sad but I'm happy.

byte

If somebody wants to start a thread about installations, by all means go ahead. I'll sticky it later.

Frisian

Sorry for answering so late, was busy.

Greenman wrote: »

Maybe thats for copyright purposes, I hope.

Do you look at 26 east at all ? MBC is there too, if you try let us know reception.

I'm between Antwerp and Liege along the E313.

Oh yes, of course. 26°e is coming in no problem, very weak signal (no lock) on the MBC tp, though.
Btw. I'm 15km east of Roermond atm.

Mate what are these recievers like, Im looking to lay my hands on some cheap recievers for mainly FTA reception but also perhaps the option for a CI (Like a diablo). Ive seen these recievers on the website i usualy get my gear from in Germany at a very decent price.

Can you edit channel lists via a laptop/Serial port?
English menus?

There are quite a lot different smart boxes available.
A Sat fella in Tubbercurry used to sell the Rapido II but ca. 3 out of 10 had a faulty power supply, so beware.
Mine (or the Missus's rather) is the MX40 (under €70), and tbh I never used the serial port (RS232) since this receiver has a USB port. You can transfer all data e.g. settings from your PC to the box via a USB stick or an external hard drive, onto which you can record aswell, or watch your digital pix from.
The MX40 has an empty card slot, for whom you can buy a reader for ca.30€.
No CI slots, though.
Mine is running with an alternative firmware.


Btw. Amos comes in here, too.


Loads of people here are now buying the MX92 HD with USB and CI @€;149.
Might be worth a thought.

snaps

M5 wrote: »

any chance you can post the make and model (or a link), would like to pick up something like that myself! cheers

I assume you mean the switch? Its made by global, dont know where i got it from, think it was the UK. I brought it many years ago before recievers had loop throughs built in as i had 2 nokias linked up to a fixed dish.

Global smart priority swich its called.

snaps

Frisian wrote: »

Sorry for answering so late, was busy.


Oh yes, of course. 26°e is coming in no problem, very weak signal (no lock) on the MBC tp, though.

Loads of people here are now buying the MX92 HD with USB and CI @€;149.
Might be worth a thought.

Strange how 26e mbc is stronger here?

Look at you showing off with AMOS! One bird i wish i could recieve here.

So smart recievers are worth a look then? Yes been looking at the HD model as well for a few people, the USB PVR is very apealing for the price. Some decent offers around for this make.

Wonder if a Diablo cam would work in that Smart HD model?

M5

snaps wrote: »

I assume you mean the switch? Its made by global, dont know where i got it from, think it was the UK. I brought it many years ago before recievers had loop throughs built in as i had 2 nokias linked up to a fixed dish.

Global smart priority swich its called.

on my way to www.google.com cheers!

stevethesatguy

I have an ASC SIGNAL 1.8m dish on the way,,I will see what i get and report back here. as it stands i get 58w to 42e on my motorised 1.1m Triax ,,,the house block the rest of the eastern sky,,,I am going to mount the 1.8m dish further from the house and hopefully i will get some hard to find sats

snaps

stevethesatguy wrote: »

I have an ASC SIGNAL 1.8m dish on the way,,I will see what i get and report back here. as it stands i get 58w to 42e on my motorised 1.1m Triax ,,,the house block the rest of the eastern sky,,,I am going to mount the 1.8m dish further from the house and hopefully i will get some hard to find sats

Will be interesting to see if you get a sniff of either 4 or 7 west with that?

M5

7 maybe, 4 doubt it, Nile sat would be very interesting indeed!!!!! A 1.8/2.0 M dish would be ordered quite quickly!!!!

http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/maps/amos2_eur.html

http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/maps/nile101.html

stevethesatguy

Should have a delivery by Wednesday next week,,give me 2 days to play with it and I should be able to post results by 7th Feb

Greenman

Greenman wrote: »

Here are the pics of my CM 1.2m plus polar mount. Got it all sorted on saturday last. The goal was NIlesat for the wife, verticals are perfect all the time, horizontals are fine till we have rain then a few vanish, at night they get very strong, from 40% quality in the day to 65% quality at night.

It swings from 15 west to 50 east.

All in all I'm very happy and would do nothing different.

The mast was homemade by a pal at work. Its a 75mm diameter tube.

Any comments welcome.

Hello,
Done some changing about as we are going to get some building work done where the old setup was. I'm putting another CM 1.2m behind the first one fixed on Nilesat. Thnking about one of those 90cm multi LNB dish from Wavefrontier, just thinking plus thinking of modding a Triax TD 110 to take a few LNBs.

snaps

That is one hell of a setup!
how does the 2 L brackets supporting the other 2 dishes grip the main pole? Im surprised they dont slip around?

Nice touch the bird box behind the dishes!

Whats the mast for at the back of the house?

Greenman

snaps wrote: »

That is one hell of a setup!
how does the 2 L brackets supporting the other 2 dishes grip the main pole? Im surprised they dont slip around?

I just bolted them to the pole which is a 3 inch pole, the U brackets are serrated and they are good and tight so we'll see how they hold.

snaps wrote: »

Whats the mast for at the back of the house?

That mast is for Ham Radio, its a mast that I inherited when I bought the house in 96. These masts were all over Flemish Belgium pre sat TV when the people wanted to watch German and Dutch TV. Most were taken down when cable TV came to Vlanderen in the 80's.

More pics will follow.;)