Help Please

[rasp]

Just installed a triax 1.1.dish and dark motor on TNK brackets, Pole is not spot on only a little bit out so i am using diseqc not usals. My Latitude: 51.---°/Longitude: -3.----° my dish angle is 29% i am in south wales (Bridgend) set the lat on motor but only pick up 28.2e sky 90% signal 85% quality . Done a factory reset on my spiderbox 9000 as i said i get no signal or quality when moving to 19.2e or 13.e .It's bloody hard when you are on your own and a bad back

Any advice please

Thanks rasp

[Roadrunner]

I think you need to take it down and start from scratch again. The pole must be perfectly plum or the motor will not sit straight on it and won't follow the arc correctly. There are no shortcuts I am affraid.

[cosworth4x4]

if you cannot get 19 or 13 east something is more than a little out, they are very strong in our area.

[rasp]

I checked the settings on the ground with a scaffolding pole in the garden and i could pick the mentioned sats ok. Checked the level of the pole with a boat level and and only have to move a tiny bit to be spot on.Used to have a 1Mtr lenson Heath dish with a 36volt motor and the angle was 40%. But the angle must be ok as i was picking them up on the ground. It's starting to rain now and it's in for the weekend so will have to leave it for the weekend. I have sky mini dish below it. I have a M8 i can call to give a hand to alter it will have to wait for him, as i said it's hard when you up the ladder undoing the bolts and trying to hold it to adjust it.

[cosworth4x4]

you check the settings on the ground ?

so then you moving it to another pole ?

[rasp]

Yes made sure the motor was dead center on both my Lat and dish angle should be the same on both shouldn't they

[cosworth4x4]

what sat did you use on the ground, if you used 28 19 or even 13 once moved you could still be way off , thier signal is so stong.

[rasp]

On the the ground i could pick up 28/19/13 no problem

[cosworth4x4]

good possibilty , but once moved to the other mount if not perfectly straight and the sats are so strong , can be a mile out once you move to another.

[rasp]

Weather does not look to bad for use tomorrow will strip it down if i can get hold of my M8.

Thanks anyway M8

[Mickha]

Good luck, by the way it's absolutely pouring down, at the moment, where I am. Hopefully it will remain dry, where you are, and not too windy.

[TheBadger]

Probably preaching to the converted but when you strip it down and reassemble make sure you check for vertical in more than one plane - do at least E-W and N-S. I had to elongate the holes in my T&K brackets to get the fine adjustment needed to get my pole spot on. Have you got a meter? Makes life much easier. Which sat do you use for true south? Here in Caerphilly I use 5W.

[cosworth4x4]

very heavy winds today so hopefully its not mounted too high up , not good to be up a ladder and definatly not with a dish in youre hand , :ack2:

[Detlef]

. . . . . . My Latitude: 51.***°/Longitude: -3.****°

Any advice please

Thanks rasp

You really shouldn't specify your location so accurately as it pinpoints you to within about 20 meters. Not good if you subsequently post about CS or watching with an emu.

I've starred out the location so that you can remove some of the decimal places from post 1. One decimal place is enough for peeps to advise you on setup.

[rasp]

Thanks for all the replies guys to windy for me on my own will have to wait for my M8

[McrRed]

Not very helpful but can't you leave it lower or at ground level? Seein as you get signal there...

[rasp]

Tell er indoors that.

No seriously it has to be on the side of the wall so pick up the signal from more sats.

Have to source two K brackets and one T, plus 10mm Rawl bolts to replace what's up there what i should have done on the first place.

Funny isn't when any family and friends are in trouble i am the first to help but when the shoe is on the other foot they are not quick to return the favour.

[TheBadger]

I'd recommend "Multi Montys" rather than Rawl bolts as they don't expand but cut their own thread into brick.

[rasp]

Will they work in stone.

Update just taken the dish down and going to try and take the old T & K brackets off the wall.

[Mickha]

You must have better weather than round here, it seems to have been raining for 4 day solid, even now it's still pouring down.
Been trying to sort out some rust, on my ground based mount, but not had sufficient sunshine, or at the very least dry weather, without to much wind.
My garden, which is clay based, is once again under water.

[rasp]

It's not to bad now still a bit windy and nasty showers and clear sky five minutes later.

[TheBadger]

According to Derek you should be ok from Thursday onwards. Montis should work in stone if you get the pilot hole the correct size. You in a really old house - genuine stone?:D

[rasp]

Taken the dish down and on a scaffolding pole in the lawn got 28.2e,19.2e,13.0e also 1have bought a spiderbox 6000. The T brackets have been taken down the K bracket is ok.Bought some 8mm rawlbolts to realign the the brackets, Still waiting for my M8 to give me hand, he won't be long as he like my homemade wine and gave him three bottles of chardonnay. Got to do it when my son or missus are nor watching sky as the dish is below the Triax and with the ladder it loses the signal.

[Aldo]

May I just say this, I have recently had a 1.1metre Triax dish installed, and the guy who did the installation for me, told me that scaffolding pole has a tendency to spread the clamps that secure the dish to the pole (you could check this when your dish is on the lawn)and it could cause the dish to move on the pole, and he replaced my scaffolding tube with a stainless steel tube, and the scrap man took away the old dish and the scaffolding tube that same day.

[holmroad]

Just one final throw of the dice - I always 'middle' my dish using 1W as the benchmark, always have this past 20 years or so!!