signal strength help.

[fclt1981]

Dear All,

I am in north South america and am receiveing 72.7 dish netwrork programming with a 2.4 dish antenna I molded out of an original offset antenna. I am getting 20-26 signal strength on most transponders, a few at 13-14 and some will go from 7-12 during the day. When Transponder 19 is at 23 signal strength (it depends on the day and other factors) I get almost all channels. I am using a Aspen LNB and want to know what I can do to get some more strength especially in the weaker channels.

Can the ivacom lnb help to get a couple of points? I think I got the focal point ok but i had to measure it from an atenna that was already setup and am not sure if it is ok. how can I tell if the lnb angle(facing dish) is correct? If it is at the right length?

If I increase the antenna to 3mts how do I calculate the focal point? would it be at the same place as this one but farther back?

 

[papalittle]

How about buying a signal amplifier for satellite dishes, seemed to help a few of my customers.

 

[fclt1981]

it was my understanding that this only helped when you hd loss because of cable runs... is this correct or am i mistaken. which would be a good choice?

 

[MELLOPTY]

You can point your dish to 61.5w the signal is more strong and there is a lot of HD Channel on this sat

 

[fclt1981]

this is correct on 61.5... i want both because ESPN HD in 72.7.

 

[fclt1981]

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