Hi guys, I have a 90cm fortec star dish, a universal LNBF, and a HH90 motor. I live in houston, and I am able to get almost all sattelites. But I am not able to get T11. The motor is able to reach the sattelite, but the signal stringth is 40% with no quality. Do I need a bigger dish to get T11?
What is your location? Anything with small elevation might be har to get because your dish will be picking up too much noise from the ground.
Say what?? That's a new one on me; what kind of noise does the ground emit? I always thought that trees and buildings made low-elevation settings hard to get.
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What I am trying to say is that when you are pointing to a low elevation, you signal maybe showing some kind of the signal, but that is because it is picking up ground noise (I am totally serious )
I don't have an explanation for it , but I have seen it referenced quite a bit. If elevetions is < 10 degrees that ground noise becomes a factor. Here is a mention of it from drdish : http://www.drdish.com/knowledge/9607/sat00201.html
"Notes(1) This geometric listing does not imply usable signals(2) Side lobe overspill may allow out of footprint reception(3) Ground noise may be excessive below 10 degrees elevation".
Also I've seen it referenced as noise generated by the thermal energy from the ground. I don't know if this explains it but this site has some interesting calculations: http://aa.1asphost.com/tonyart/tonyt...Tvro/Tvro.html
kat,vj9999;..actually read the same thing a few weeks ago while looking at LNB construction.It more or less said that the ground itself was a reflector for ALL types of signal(IR,Microwave,Radio,etc).This tended to bottleneck the the filtering capacity of the lnb.In other words,the closer the dish was TO the ground,and the closer it was pointed TOWARDS the ground added to the problem.made sense.
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Hmmm... totally weird. But, if Dr. Dish says it is then it must be so... :lol: He is, after all, the chief satellite geek. :wink:
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I think you are right about this. I have a 7 foot C band dish side by side to the 90 cm dish(well ,about 6 feet away). So whan I go to T11, the 90cm dish ends up facing the big dish, so the big dish might be blocking the signal. Even though I am able to get PAS9. That's very strange to me!
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