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Subject: Re: TU DSB in Stockholm Sweden

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iain

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Date Posted: 14:12:00 11/13/03 Thu
In reply to: Ingemar 's message, "Re: TU DSB in Stockholm Sweden" on 11:09:06 11/13/03 Thu

>You don't find ASTRA2D or you can't find anything??
>
>In order to get help with ELEVATION you can use an
>anlogue reciever to find an approximate place where
>the satellites are. You can probably borrow an
>analogue reciever from someone. Unfortunately does not
>this method work on ASTRA 28 to get the exact position
>for the satellites. You can also use a Satbeeper or
>some other kind of measurementgadget. You can get one
>from Claes Olsson or Kjell&Co or another shop that
>sell technical gadgets. They will help you to improve
>the reception.
>
>/Ingemar

It should be quit easy to find something with a 90 cm and a DSB 30. I've done this lots of times just using the signal test from the digibox (save your money and time and don't bother with the beepers etc). Assuming you've got an offset dish then the dish should be almost vertical. It's quit easy then to just swing the dish east and west till you get a response on the signal strength and then start making small adjustments to maximize this(waiting a few seconds between adjustments since it takes a moment to respond). Once you've done this you can make fine adjustments using the wet cloth trick. If you have a signal strength around 90 its harder to notice improvements so by placing a damp cloth over the lnb you can get the strength to drop ( to about 40% say). You can now make fine adjustments again and hopefully squeeze a bit more signal out of it)

I've done this several times even with a 40 cm dish and found astra 2 position very quickly.

/Iain

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