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RE: [OT] Happy Camper!
- To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: [OT] Happy Camper!
- From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 00:00:00 +0100
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Of course, the totally over the top way that a UKHAer should do it is to
wait until nightfall then point a projector at a neighbours white wall or a
sheet draped on the building, and adjust the dish with a massive image :-)
Keith
www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailinglists@xxxxxxx [mailto:mailinglists@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 19 September 2003 23:43
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Happy Camper!
>
>
> LOL! That's too easy, did it at my Dads with a 14" TV sat on
> the roof! :)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Des Gibbons [mailto:des@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 19 September 2003 23:02
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Happy Camper!
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ben addison [mailto:ben@xxxxxxx]
> >
> > I have set a few up now manually over here in the UK and
> italy. The
> > angle of the dish in the uk should be between 21-25. You
> are best trying
> > with it pointing south and swing it slowly towards the
> east. If you
> > start from the east you end up picking up the wrong sat
> and it locks on
> > to that, and you have to reset the decoder.
> >
>
> The angle over here is between 19 and 20. The biggest
> problem I had was
> trying to do it with someone else watching the screen and
> communicating
> with
> phones.
>
> This evening I decided to do it on my own, so I soldered a
> piece of cat5
> into a scart plug, and connected the other end of the cat5
> into one of the
> Kenwood TFT screens as mentioned previously on the group.
> So I had the
> screen right beside me while I was moving the dish.
>
> It still took me a fair while as I had no compass, and the
> sun wasn't
> visible at that time of the day. But once I found Astra,
> fine tuning to
> get
> that level of signal was a piece of cake.
>
> Now to go and stick on my quad LNB and run 4 cables thru
> the wall to N0 :)
>
> Cheers, Des.
>
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