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Originally Posted by dssman006
Hmm, Quality 37-59 and it works for you. How come mine is around 60-68 and it doesn't work that great for me. Is every receiver different. Like some can tune/display video with less signal quality than others.
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When I said 37-59 is to show that a weak tp will read 37 at times and a strong one will read 60+, My receiver is
mercury II and if the quality meter goes below 40 will cause the image and sound to break a little. It was not easy to tune it. I had to altered the usals settings for that particular sat. Out of the 40+ channels from hisp 30w, 42 are viewable, Supershow and superland are among the weaker sats (but is over 40 in quality unless there is bad weather).
I will explain:
My dish is a fortec 90cm and is (IMHO) poorly designed, or may be not meant for motorized mounting. Sorry for the honesty about the fortec dish, I do not mean any offense.
-badly designed?- it only has one arm to hold the LNB (I will soon make two more arms for it to hold the lnb in the right place).
When installing a bigger lnb (QPH-031) you are overloading the arm, that combined with tilting the dish to a low sat (hispasat 30w) causes the lnb to be off a few degrees, yielding low transponders not exactly within range.
-Here is my work around- You can point the dish to hisp 30w by using the diseq option in the antenna menu, and move little by little to west or east until the meter gives you a better reading on the desired tp. This is provided you are properly alligned with the arc, otherwise it might not help at all.
To me the real solution is to add the two extra arms (having a total of three suporting arms for the lnb, that will hold it steady. Home Depot has the needed bolts/nuts and aluminum tubes. By the way, the dish has the holes in it, already from factory, but I asked
Sadoun if they sell the arms and they said: NO.
My LNB is a
QPH-031. I will continue on fine tuning as it always results in improvement. I will report the results of adding the extra arms to my dish, when completed.