ABS 3A @ 3.0°W feeds

signal went for me! :(
 
.. study Ant's face - he does not look a happy bunny , almost an un-well look to him
 
was it just poor little me, that the signal disappeared just before it started...?
 
@John did your feed signal survive the show? or did it degrade and fade out?
 
manikm909 said:
@John did your feed signal survive the show? or did it degrade and fade out?
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Don't know chap, only watched the feed for a short while waiting for Ant to keel over or reach for a drink - he looked as rough as a badgers on the 'off air' segments, trust me i'm a doctor . . . . . . . not
 
Was fine on my end, Only interesting point was Ant and Dec being told during the break someone broke into the compound.
 
ive been up ladder again, and managed 14.8db on that Italian MUX. i dont think i can get ANY MORE out of the old 1.2m

blind scan has found some feeds - which i wouldnt have got before on 3w thats for sure.

Sutton utd footy feed - FTA plus some enc

PS ended up swapping my Inverto PLL LNB for Inverto "IBU"
 
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Just firing up old Bessie now on 3West - that footy feed Sutton v Mansfield is only a few miles away
** Forget that, wrong Sutton, my Sutton is the next town to Mansfield and not down sarf
 
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Im A Celeb is up, 8db again for me

Sutton Football is 7.8db for me on 11501 so you should get Im a celeb
 
do the people that operate these feeds, only give enough signal to reach the destination, i.e do they control it, or does it just depends on the size of their uplink equipment?
 
manikm909 said:
do the people that operate these feeds, only give enough signal to reach the destination, i.e do they control it, or does it just depends on the size of their uplink equipment?
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They absolutely control it, they will aim for a certain db rain fade margin based on the dish reception at the other end, no point pumping huge watts into it if no need. Their receive dishes are 3.8m to 6.3m for Ku depending which one they are using.

This satellite is also quite weak, so a very powerful uplink signal could effect other ones which they won't want to do.
 
6.0-6.3db for me again, i think it will flake out before it starts. Test card is solid at the mo tho
 
Footy feed 3.0W - 4:2:2, BISS.
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3West footy feed. 422 - BISS - Screenshot..reduced.webp
 
manikm909 said:
6.0-6.3db for me again, i think it will flake out before it starts. Test card is solid at the mo tho
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I think they turn the wick down when the programme starts..
 
ITV feed is constantly breaking up for me tonight. Coventry vs Birmingham on 11008V 10000 and the UKR-028 feed are stronger.
 
Dropped down to 7.4db for me now
 
ozumo said:
ITV feed is constantly breaking up for me tonight. Coventry vs Birmingham on 11008V 10000 and the UKR-028 feed are stronger.
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same as last night - feed broke up just before start - jokers... :)
 
moonbase said:
Get that 1.5m Gibby on it, it will sort out them vanners and their tricks with the uplink signal level.
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lol until the next feed that is out of reach of a 1.5m - does it ever end...gone from 88cm Triax, to 1m Gbby, to 1.2 Laminas to 1.2CM - and now...looking at 1.5m's - my garden is a decent size, but limited for sat sigs, unless wall mounted or placed in middle of garden path
:)
 
manikm909 said:
lol until the next feed that is out of reach of a 1.5m - does it ever end...gone from 88cm Triax, to 1m Gbby, to 1.2 Laminas to 1.2CM - and now...looking at 1.5m's - my garden is a decent size, but limited for sat sigs, unless wall mounted or placed in middle of garden path
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I started off with one of them flat squarial dishes for SKY, stangely enough when I lived in Sutton just a few hundred yards from the footy ground that was on the 3.0W feed tonight.
It became a natural progression for me.
0.6m --> 1.2m --> 1.5m --> 1.8m --> 2.0m --> 2.2m --> 2.4m --> 2.8m.

The handy thing about a mobile platform is that it can be wheeled around easily, immobilised when in service, costs next to nowt to build and can be stashed away when not in use.
I built mine from a free pallet from the local builders yard, a set of 4 castors from eBay costing a fiver, some metal and bolts for the immobilising system costing around £20 and a bit of gravel board and decking off cuts to reinforce it.
 
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