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Subject: Re: Cannot find Astra 2 North beam

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Outsider

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Date Posted: 08:13:02 10/24/03 Fri
In reply to: Paul 's message, "Cannot find Astra 2 North beam" on 07:23:56 10/24/03 Fri

>I am new at DIY with dishes so please maybe you can
>help ?
>I am in Madrid Spain, I have a 1.8m dish - Grundig
>gds3000 receiver, not sure of the LNB it says 0.5dB.
>I am having real trouble in locating the Astra 2 North
>beam (which apparently enables me to get CH4 & BBC ?)
>I find the South beam easily (I think its the south
>beam) I get Channel 5 ok.....I have a satmeter,
>compass ....
>Is there anyway that the south beam signal is in the
>same place as the north beam, and that could be
>stopping me ?
>I have set default transponder to 11.778 V - 27500 2/3.
>Does anyone have any ideas ?
>Where is the north beam in relation to the south beam ?

Astra 2A, 2B and 2D are all in the same orbital position 28.2E, there's no need to adjust your dish for a specific satellite or transponder. Cheap satmeters aren't so great, might be better to do the fine-tuning by looking at receiver signal quality from some transponder that you can get easily (but not so strong that it gives 100% even if the dish is way off).

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Cannot find Astra 2 North beam	Outsider	08:20:27 10/24/03 Fri

Re: Cannot find Astra 2 North beam	paul	08:51:58 10/24/03 Fri
Re: Cannot find Astra 2 North beam -- Outsider, 12:28:59 10/24/03 Fri Re: Cannot find Astra 2 North beam -- paul, 06:47:50 10/28/03 Tue