8'Fortec

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And down she came:


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And up she went:


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With the excellent help of my good bud lexmark we managed to get this beast up today. There are still hours of tinkering involved before I can say that it's spot on but we did manage to scan in several tp on Galaxy 17 at 91w.

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Nice Costa!

[easily confused]

Nicely done!!

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After countless hours with my good bud lexmark we got the dish finely tuned. 2 defective lnbf had us puzzled for a couple of days. I'm just waiting for my new lnbf to show up before I start saving my sat positions in positioner memory. My arc is from 15-123w.

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Update on the 8' solid, 27 sat positions stored with another 10 tougher ones scattered across the arc coming later. I'm still waiting on my new lnbf before I attempt to stabalise my feed. I'm going to also slap my prime focus ku lnb on as well to see if it improves signal quality.

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I finally had some time yesterday to play around with my new dish. My good bud lexmark drilled a couple of more holes in a scalar ring and I slapped on my invacom twh-031 twin universal ku lnb to see if I could improve things on ku band, already using my bud for c band. I managed to max it out and all ku sats on my arc scan in with high signal quality. When I get a chance, I'm going to compare the results of this dish to my previous 6' solid.


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I managed to scan my sats before removing the 6' solid and noting my signal quality on 1 tp from each sat. Considering it's a 6' solid, my signal quality should be 99% on all sats but an azbox receiver will show lower signal quality:

Telstar 12-15w 11712 58%
Hispasat 1c/d/e-30w 11884 66%
Amazonas 2-61w 11734 94%
Amc 6-72w 12055 84%
Horizons 2- 74w 12060 98%
Amc 9- 83w 11735 70%
Amc 16-85w 11784 46%
Ses 2-87w 11716 100%
Galaxy 28-89w 11955 85%
Galaxy 17- 91w 11950 58%
Galaxy 25- 93.1w 11920 53%
Galaxy 3- 95w 11780 86%
Galaxy 19-97w 11789 70%
Galaxy 16-99w 11809 40%
Ses 1-101w 12060 44%
Amc 1-103w 11946 59%
Amc 15-105w 11856 49%


That's as far as I went. It'll be interesting to see the results with the 8' solid.

I haven't gone as far to document my reults with the new 8' Fortec solid but I eventually will do so. From the numbers that I saw yesyerday evening I would have to say about a 20-25% increase across the board.

[TurboPirate]

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Ain't that dish a beauty!!!! soon I'll have mine

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Extra fine tuning this weekend will have it complete and should be doing most of the arc at 99% signal quality. Since I had minimal success with universal lnb I'll stick to the invacom twh-031 or the dms jsc322-2.