Jako
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Those cheap meters do not measure only one transponder frequency, but the total combined energy that the LNB receives within the selected quadrant. The quadrant being horizontal or vertical polarisation in the high or low frequency band. The quadrant is selected by the receiver when you select a channel. Just turn the amplification of the cheap meter up until the needle is pointing in the middle and keep it there. That should always be possible, even without reception. If you cannot get the needle in the middle, the meter is either malfunctioning or connected the wrong way round.
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Yet another proton launch failure, this will have an impact on the Astra2G launch date:http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/05/russian-proton-m-launches-with-ekspress-am4r/
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When using a cheap satfinder you need to make sure that the needle is always pointing in the middle, that way you are able to detect even the slightest improvement and weakening of the signal strength when searching for a satellite. With the needle pointing all the way to the left you will never find it, turn the amplification always up until the needle is in the middle when you receive nothing. Once the sat is located you have to turn the amplification down to keep the needle in the middle and keep improving reception until the signal is optimal. Then turn to the signal strength meter of the receiver and fin-tune until the signal quality is at its highest.
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As it is foreign interest you need to declare it on the pink form 2047-K, the total interest is then transferred to box 2TS on form 2042K.
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1 meter is a bit overdone in that area, once properly aligned you will have a huge signal. But, as you have noticed, aligning a big dish is a lot harder to do, every mm counts. Set the elevation at 31 degrees , turn the dish way too much to the east and then slowly back west until you get a signal. The first signal you encounter should be the Astra2 position.
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Yes Daft Doctor appears to receive the vertical polarised channels only. This could be due to a wrong LNB skew (rotation of the lnb around its own axis) or a malfunction of either the LNB or the receiver . However, as a vertical polarisation requires a higher voltage (18v) than a horizontal polarisation (13v) , a malfunction is less likely.
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Yes, that is a tested solution to tackle this problem.
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Exactly. It is obviously the same rights issue that is the reason behind the existence of the UK spot beam: rights are only paid for in the UK. In France many of the same rights are paid for by TF1 or Canal+ so the BBC , ITV etc must make sure that you cannot watch their programs in France or risk a complaint and damage claim by French TV stations. Use of the UK spotbeam is the 'approved' solution for satellite TV, for IPTV geoblocking is used, but the current system has room for improvement, which is actually not hard to implement.
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Don't forget that the Astra2E/F/G satellites have a lifespan of 15 years. Investing in a proper dish solution will therefore be beneficial for at least 15 years : good investment. Watching online is actually illegal, so do not be surprised when this solution suddenly stops working because of legal action against the provider: bad investment.
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What costs? There are (almost) no extra costs, just charges. When the extra charges are removed people will actually start to use their phones abroad and profits rise. Obviously this is easier for bigger providers and currently there are too many providers in Europe so the smaller ones will be absorbed. "resistance is futile"...[:D]
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Yes, but he has no opinion, Farrage did not vote:http://www.votewatch.eu/en/european-single-market-for-electronic-communications-draft-legislative-resolution-vote-legislative-r.htmlApparently he has no clue, as he hardly ever votes:http://www.votewatch.eu/en/nigel-farage.html
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With the new 8PSK transmissions the phase noise is more important than previously. If the SD channels are ok, but the HD channels are not and the LNB is new it might just be a production 'glitch'. According to the skyinmadrid website the quality control at Inverto's is poor and the consumer might end up with a mediocre LNB. Their advice is to use an Invacom LNB in fringe areas and a reader comment of "Gordon, Frejus, France" seems to confirm this:"Re your news item of March 15th where you recommended Invacom LNB's. As Astra 2E came into service I re-cabled my 1.2 meter dish and bought a new Sedea LNB. However I was still losing my 'local' BBC1 and all BBC HD channels from tea-time onwards. Following your rercommendation I bought an Invacom twin LNB from Amazon France for €43, and the difference is remarkable. I can now get ALL channels both SD and HD at all times of day and night, the signal strength on my weaker feed has gone from 40% at best time of day, to 70% for Quality, and 85% for strength. I live in a forested area in South Eastern France."
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[quote user="Sprogster"]You should never send a bank your passport, as they require a certified true copy, which they will either do themselves if you take it into a branch, or you can get a lawyer or accountant to take and certify a copy for you that you mail to the bank. [/quote]Not at Credit Mutuel. I just scanned my passport and mailed it using their internal secure mailsystem . Problem solved in 1 minute.
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I am convinced there is also malware around to 'play' this system, although I cannot prove this. There are reports of people just visiting the 'pagesjaunes' to find a phone number that are charged via Orange just for searching a phone number and when they look again later to check that webpage appears to be filled with paid options. But when I visit the French pagesjaunes I see no paid options at all. Be sure to keep malware out of your browser, block adds and never accept a 'free' browser toolbar.
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The (illegal) solution with the 'other' satellite has already been mentioned here, but is now presented as a 'magic solution' by some low life in Spain. They might try the same scam north of the Pyrenees, so beware and do not fall for it. Read the article in the satandpcguy
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[quote user="Martin963"]But surely the advice given still holds; even if you (who know the theory) are going to argue that the dish was never put up properly in the first place (!), then nudging it to the east to peak up 2E (in its current position) might be of help.[/quote]No, it might just as well be necessary to push it to the west or up. There is absolutely no relation with the negligible movement of the satellite in the cubicle. That is fiction,you ignore the facts as calculated.IMHO this is just an excuse by an installer to make a customer pay twice for tweaking a dish that he had misaligned in the first place: just blame it on the satellite.edit: The same question was just answered by a specialist on a sat forum. The required dish size to notice difference between the satellites is 10 meter, dishes of that size and up use auto-tracking to follow a specific satellite in its cubicle.
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Yes, the beamwidth of good 80 cm dish is about 2.6 degrees. This is defined as the -3 dB point. So reception of a satellite that is 1.3 degrees apart from 28.2 degrees east will only be 3 dB lower.The difference between 28.35 and 28.2 is only 0.15 degrees and will result in just 0.15/1.3*3=0.34 dB difference.This is negligible, you will not be able to measure it.
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No, for normal consumer lnb's amplification is fixed, nothing regulated or limited. The LNB is simply supposed to be able to cope, but obviously there are (unknown) limits to what the output can be.
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@Quillan: Not the LNB, but the tuner can receive too much signal forcing it to turn down the amplification and thus suppressing the very week signals from the spotbeam. I have warned before that this effect might exist in one of the threads on this forum. @Martin963: you need a very big dish to notice any difference between 28.2 and 28.35 , impossible for a tiny 80 cm dish. If reception improves by giving a dish a nudge east it was simply misaligned to begin with. As the signal of Astra1N was so powerful I think this will be the case with the majority of dishes pointing at 28.2 east.
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Regarding reusing frequencies: apparently the narrow UK spotbeam is irrelevant to allow for this.On Astra2F SES are already reusing a frequency of the pan-europe beam on the west-Africa beam. Inverse polarity and just 1MHz difference seems to be enough: http://www.lyngsat.com/Astra-2F.html (12604 H =PE beam, 12603 V=WA beam.) Consumer equipment cannot differentiate between transponders that are just 1Mhz apart, but using inverse polarity helps a lot.
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Yes, the default transponder is 11778 . The box will also use this transponder to measure signal strength, but this transponder is now located on the Astra2E pan-European beam so the signal strength of this transponder is useless as measurement tool for the UK beam. At least he EPG will be fully functional, even without reception of BBC and ITV.[;-)]
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2 old SD dreamboxes, one xtrend HD PVR.
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Be aware that the mentioned satlink meter can only receive DVB-S signals and not the new DVB-S2 used by transponders carrying HD channels. Most transponders are still using the old DVB-S specs so you can use the meter for now, but in the future DVB-S will disappear rendering the meter useless.As soon as you connect an LNB to the receiver and power the receiver up, the LNB will receive and produce noise. The amp of the tuner will automatically turn 'open' to the max and voila: signal is there, but it is just background noise of whatever you are pointing the lnb to+the LNB's own noise level.Any new LNB is bound to outperform an older lnb because noise levels are much lower now, around 0.2 dB, where 3 dB was normal 15 years ago. The insertion loss of a switch is not so important. A 3 dB insertion loss will only make the amp of the tuner amplify 3 dB more. It is the noise figure of the switch that is important, because that noise will add to the existing noise level. Unfortunately, the irrelevant insertion loss is always mentioned in the specs and the noise figure never.P.sI also used to take tuner+small tv towards the dish. Nowadays I use Open-Linux receivers connected to the local Wifi so I only need a notebook/smartphone with the appropriate 'app' that displays the signal levels and even has a build-in lady that speaks loud, clear and without getting tired...[:D]
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