you're ugly said:
By now , I think I have picked up most / all the " full time " analog channels ( a bunch more channels listed on lyngsat.com are named as feeds ) , pretty much east to west .
Using the HH100 to sweep the sky .
Channels vary from a few that are almost as good as over the air channels on rabbit ears to so bad as to barely be able to tell there is a picture there . Most are some where in between .
Although , I think the worst channels are simply bleed over from sats to the east & west of the one I am aimed at . If that is correct , I would say that they do not count .
Again , no DVB-S , yet .
Have a couple more things to test , but if they do not yeald enough improvement to give me DVB-S , then I would have to say I will need to scrounge another , larger dish .
For now , I will have to re-tweek the dish / motor assembly . It seems the wind has rotated the dish out of allignment . They are mounted on a short piece of 2" galvanixed steel pipe that is not in the ground very far ( no concrete ) . The whole pole will turn .
Think I may use this to my advantage . Clamp a 4 ' - 5' steel bar to the pipe , at ground level . This will keep it from rotating when I do not want it to , but allow me to rotate it in very fine incriments , when I am trying to tweek the dish .
Also , the dish to motor alignment is not quite right . I measure from the flat of the motor mount bracket ( that clamps to the pipe ) to a flat spot on the dish bracket , on both the east and the west side & compare measurments .
Problem I am having , is the slack in the motor arm . I think I will mark the dish elevation & then let the dish " droop " down . Hopefully , this will put the weight of the dish " down " & allow the dish to fall to the middle of the slack ?
As it is , with the dish angled up , even at zero position ( midway in the east - west rotation ) , the dish may fall east or west in the slack .
Latter ,
Wyr