Hi Everyone,
Should I be able to hit any of the satellites over the Atlantic from my location?
42.42 N, 88.60 W
Harvard, Il
I have the 100cm dish and the
QPH-031 lnb with
HH100 motor. I am almost sure that I was hitting echostar3 and just a couple of degrees distance more is the atlantic birds.
I can also hit 148 echostart 1&2.
I have to do some retuning after adding the qph-031 after I messed with the dish. My quality dropped quite a bit after adding the new lnb and "trying" to compensate for the heavier weight, but I compensated to much
. Just waiting fo the weather to get out there again to get it back to how I had it.
Does getting it higher off the ground give you better chance of hitting the satellites on the fringe? I currently have the dish about 4 feet of the ground.
I also have in aquired in my satellite equipment hunting two recievers:
General Instruments 350i and
Cc-70 videocipher ii. Plus descrambler equipped.
Will either of these allow me to get fta channels that I cannot get with my Mercury II reciever. KU band only I do not have my C-band dish up yet. That is my summer project.
As always thanks for all your help for us Newbs.
Thanks,
Oz