Reply With QuoteAs mentioned earlier you need to find a sat, any sat and then do a blindscan to find where you are on the clarke belt and then follow it down to your sat.
Leroy
Yes, mast is perfectly plumb and elevation set as listed in dishpointer.Originally Posted by beer4life
Perhaps I should also try some of the other frequencies.
I have programmed all that are global for Thaicom5 from Lyngsat.
Frequency I was on was 3600 H 26667
As mentioned earlier you need to find a sat, any sat and then do a blindscan to find where you are on the clarke belt and then follow it down to your sat.
Leroy
XCRUISER HDSR600HD twin sat and terrestrial receiver $OOS *
XCRUISER HDSR385 Avant - sold out$OOS UltraPlus DVB-T and DVB-S2 tuners $49 Remotes $OOS
What if he only has an Az-El mount?
Pole mount is a two piece device which I believe will give the correct arc if set correctly.
I think it was originally for either single setting or multiple satellite reception.
From advice here so far, I think it might be a good move to set at true North and adjust azmuth as for the motorised units and go from there.
This would then give the correct view to the belt as someone said before.
Then at least moving sideways it will remain in the belt.
The thought of looking for a bus size device from 40,000 odd K's has give me a better grasp of what is expected.
Thanks again for all the advice.
Last edited by bluejets; 18-07-13 at 11:07 AM.
Polar Mount adjusting.
I cant seem to find if you are using a ' Polar Mount ' or just a single bracket from mast to dish.
Does it look like this ? If so the setup will be different. The figures you have are for an offset dish.
Please supply a photo if possible.
Setting up a C-Band Polar mount Tutorial.
Now we are getting there.
Here is the tutorial for setting up a Polar Mount.
tried to download the tutorial however it requires another program install to get it and anti-virus says it's not good.
hmm, polar mounts are really a 3-piece device.
From Beer4life's image.
Try this then, a WORD DOC, 17.5 MB, so will be slow.
That took me 5 Mins to DL and progress could be seen in the DL bar at bottom of screen.
When finished, DOC opened in a few Secs.
Last edited by beer4life; 18-07-13 at 09:14 PM.
Yes, it is similar as far as I can see.
By 2 piece I meant dish mount and pole mount 2 x adjustments.
still wants to install some extra "download" program...
OK, this is kind of important. A polar mount has THREE main adjustable sections, four if you include the declination adjustment.
An Az-El (Azimuth-Elevation) mount only has TWO possible adjustments.
Everyone has assumed you have a polar mount, and you probably do, but it would be good to clarify this.
I've uploaded the C-Band Satellite Dish Tutorial zip file to the filebox.
Here's the direct link.
You need to select regular download.
Then enter the 'captcha' fields and click continue.
Close any ad pop-up
Click on download file in regular mode... and you should get a box prompting you for the download location you want to file to be saved to.
naturally, you'll need WINZIP,RAR or similar unzipping software to unzip the file.
Last edited by mtv; 18-07-13 at 10:20 PM.
ok..I'll pop in an image ...thanks
also downloaded the tutorial.....
That's ok. You can see the silver colored brace where the motor would go if he decided to motorise it. You just adjust just the elevation and swivle the dish around the pole like you would a little ku dish otherwise.
Leroy
XCRUISER HDSR600HD twin sat and terrestrial receiver $OOS *
XCRUISER HDSR385 Avant - sold out$OOS UltraPlus DVB-T and DVB-S2 tuners $49 Remotes $OOS
Couple of pics of the setup.
Brown high watermark on the side of the workshop from the January26th flood still showing.
Last edited by bluejets; 19-07-13 at 09:01 PM.
beer4life (20-07-13)
Yep, that's a polar mount.
I still think you can find the sat without setting the dish up to track the Clarke orbit.
Have you systematically swung your dish covering a broad area around your calculated direction?
Do you only get the flashes on the quality meter only in one particular spot? If so, that could be the correct position, and you are receiving a marginal signal. In which case, fine-tuning the LNB may be the answer to getting a useable picture.
Do you get any quality bars from your receiver when you're on the 'hot' spot? Try at night too, the signal might be just that 'poofteenth' stronger, to get you some pictures.
Sorry I can't be of more help, but I'm in Darwin and Thaicom5 'booms in', on my 3.7m dish. Otherwise I could suggest the strongest transponder frequency for hunting.
Found the problem...was assured everything with this unit was functioning ok.
Well, maybe before they used the LNB as a crab pot marker.
Put a shot in for everyone to see.
I'll get back to report on progress after a get a newbie.
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I was utterly gobsmacked to hear that a 22-year-old woman from America has put her virginity up for sale.
Also if you are traveling or know of people who cannot have a dish on thaicom5 cband they can go to a USA site and click on Thai channels they run some on web streaming for free.
Plenty of other sites streaming Thai and other Asian language channel content as well.
tristen (21-07-13)
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