Atlantic Satellites and general question

[ozifer]

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

[wejones]

Originally Posted by ozifer

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

You should be able to have line of sight to most of the Atlantic sats, but be aware that besides having line of sight, that sat also must beam to North America. You need to check the footprint maps of any transponder you want to hit to see if it is aimed this way.

Getting your dish off the ground usually doesn't help unless you have some obstruction very close that you have to see over.


Re the GI receiver, that is analog, so it will give a few analog channels, but they are getting fewer and fewer. Mainly occasional news feeds and sports events. It will also give you the capability of doing some other testing of signals via it's baseband output (unclamped video), but it's not going to help you get much more in the way of FTA.