Pointing a dish at Asiasat4

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mpj111

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#76034 27-Jan-2011 21:29

Hi

I have a trouble to pointing a dish to Asiasat4.

I have 100CM dish, need to point Asiasat 4.
I am not getting any channel.
I can do it for D1 and D2.

Living in wellington.

Ithinl the direction is 297, elevation 18.

I allign it to the direction, and turn left and right and up/down to detect any signal,

Still I am strugling.

Much appreciat if you can give me any clues to focus it

Mahinda

bfginger

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#432031 27-Jan-2011 23:43

Direction is 274.9 degrees, elevation is 19.

It looks like your dish might be slightly too small. It might be large enough in good weather if your LNB, cable and receiver are good quality, but a weak quality LNB, cable and receiver may not be good enough.

I'll mention that Lyngsat says the Indian channels on the Ku band beam from that satellite are encrypted. Are you subscribing to pay TV?

mpj111

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#432056 28-Jan-2011 08:00

My dish is 110 cm, I belive it is good quality dish and LNB.
I bought it from supplier and requested good one for asiasat 4.

I have done it for D2, but cannot get AS4.
I tried 274 from magnatic direction,
still get nothing.
I have good clearence on my roof top.

I am subscribing to channels.
If I can get somthing on this AS4, that is fine, then I know I am on right direction.

I am going to try today again,
I have meter, if I type freq, and SR, I can get the signal and quality.
But now It shows around 74DBm signal and 0 quality.

Any clues , many thanks.

Jaxson

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#432063 28-Jan-2011 08:27

Do you have the skew right on the lnb?

mpj111

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#432148 28-Jan-2011 12:01

I belive so, it need to be 16-20,

at 7 O'clock position when looking in front of dish.

Wht it should be,

I tried to turning it around already

Thank you

allstarnz

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#432257 28-Jan-2011 15:50

have you tried finding it using a sat finder?

I know it is a bit lower on the horizon than Optus sats, is it possible an object is blocking it?

mpj111

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#432267 28-Jan-2011 16:02

I have sat finder,
does not get quality, only the signal.
I do not think is there any blocks
I have cleare view

allstarnz

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#432473 28-Jan-2011 22:46

so you've tuned the STB to a transponder like 12430V??

I don't know otherwise. My 90cm isn't good enough to lock it properly, plus there's houses in the way.

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mpj111

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#432593 29-Jan-2011 16:08

I have st it to 274 magnetic northn elevation to 19,
and tried, still I am not getting. my dish is 110cm.
At least I should get somthing on this with pixalating picture atleast,.

I suspect my LNB . But it workd for D2.
what kind of LNB you are using.

illicit

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#432678 29-Jan-2011 20:55

Ring a pro with a proper satellite meter.

allstarnz

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#432872 30-Jan-2011 17:00

Like I said, I haven't got AS4 locked in, my dish is too small. I have a chinese LNB of some sort from Stewarts Electrical wholesalers. If it works for one satellite, it should work for all.