FTA setup question

[Joseph R. Mautz]

Hi. I am Joseph R. Mautz (Joe Mautz). I live in Liverpool, NY (near Syracuse, NY).
I have never posted on this site before. I am mostly interested in MPEG2 free-to air reception. I would like to give and take information on how to receive
FTA satellites. How do I do this?

For example, with a Fortec Star 120cm dish and a HH120 motor, I get
all or nearly all of what is on IA-5. However, I have not been able to adjust another Fortec Star dish in a fixed position to receive anywhere near the same number of channels. This is ironic because it is supposed to be easier to align a fixed dish than it is to align a motorized dish on the whole arc. I get some channels on IA-5 with the fixed dish but not all of them. One problem is that the exact peak of my satellite finder is not exactly where I get the best
reception. After I get a new satellite finder and a new LNB, I will work on the
problem and let forum members know what happens.

I also have a 10 foot dish and a 4DTV receiver that I would like to use to
get C band FTA reception. This would require programming more satellites.
How do I do this without risking a TDT (transponder data table) overflow?
For this problem, the 4DTV forum might be more appropriate.

 

[tdti1]

You can get a c/ku feed for the big dish for both C-band and Ku-band fta, the 4dtv will control polarity and the arm, you do not need to worry about tdt overflow unless you select a Ku-band icon on a Star choice satellite, the 4dtv has extra sat icons for you to use with dvb, if you do want to program a Star choice sat use a C-band icon like F1.

 

[elect]

i have a coolsat5000 and quad lnb&33" dish how i setup my receiver?about disq switch etc

 

[9999]

For the channels that you can receive on both, is the quality about the same? If so then maybe its a polarity issue and one of the two polarities is not being recieved. Also check settings on the receivers.

 

[voomvoom]

For example, with a Fortec Star 120cm dish and a HH120 motor, I get all or nearly all of what is on IA-5. However, I have not been able to adjust another Fortec Star dish in a fixed position to receive anywhere near the same number of channels.

I think your problem with this is going to be the skew. The motorized dish automatically takes care of the skew as the dish moves across the arc. But, on a fixed dish you will need to skew the dish or the lnbf. I'm thinking the Fortec Star dish doesn't have a skew adjustment, so you will need to skew the lnbf. It's probably not much, but from your location, I would guess between 10-15 degrees. The bottom of the lnbf should move towards the east from you location (I think). Hope this helps?

Al

And "Welcome to SatelliteGuys"!!!!

 

[rdel]

and don't forget to slowly push in and pull out the lnb in the holder once you get the skew correct, you won't believe how much that helps.
rdel

 

[Joseph R. Mautz]

In reply to voomvoom, I do not think that the problem is with the skew because I tilted the LNBF on the fixed dish the same as on the motorized dish pointed to the same satelllite. In reply to rdel, I have not pushed in and out the lnb for either the fixed dish or the motorized dish. I did not think it would make much difference because only a little movement is possible and I tried to center it as much as possible. Anyway, I will try to position the LNB for maximum signal but first I want
to get new LNB's because the ones that I have now are old. It is really strange that my reception on the motorized dish is much better than on the fixed dish. Is it possible that I am focusing a sideband of the fixed dish rather than the main beam on the satellite? I really believe there is a problem with my fixed dishes (a fortec star 120 cm and a paraclipse 90 cm) and that somehow I will eventually solve the problem. If I find a solution, I will post a message describing it.