Now the antenna:
The antenna looks very valuable and feels like that. Thus, the overall design is also relatively heavy - and that's good! All brackets are made of metal (not like my old Billigheimer with lots of plastic, which gives way quickly) run and very stable. The mounting of the mirror to the support (which throughout the war) was also very easy, all 6 holes were drilled to fit, I had to rework anything here. The elevation scale (orientation to vertical inclination) is engraved on both sides of the mast holder - very nice. The cables can be hidden in the fine LNB arm. At the mast is on the back even a little holder for an Allen key, which is required for the LNB bracket. The Allen key is included. Also a nice idea. Also, a cable tie is mounted on the back, so that the satellite cable also can be fixed there again.
All nuts of the brackets are wingnuts and thus is not even mandatory additional tools required - Easier than ever.
Conclusion: All in all an extremely good in my eyes satellite dish which I would recommend to anyone without hesitation.
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Tips for general orientation of a satellite antenna:
- First focus on vision with the help of the website "dishpointer.com" (without the page I had been many times in a fix). Here simply enter their location and what satellite you want to aim for. Then you get a satellite map displayed (as in Google Maps), on the one then determines the exact position of the antenna on the house / land and a faded line shows one exactly where you have roughly aim the LNB arm , > Use scale on the antenna mount - The vertical alignment (Elevation) we indicated in degrees a
- Then first horizontal and vertical fine adjustment of the antenna using a SatReceivers (with quality and signal strength) or a satellite finder. Both are usually quite inaccurate (especially the satellite beeper) and show no reliable absolute values, but for the rough alignment at slow (!) Turn the antenna that is already helpful. You see, whether it is better or worse.
- You can now simulate bad weather, by hanging a damp cloth over the LNB. Then you can see immediately whether you still have reserves in case of rain etc., or not. It empfiehtl be also in "mounted" damp cloth (horizontally and vertically) to carry out the alignment again. But just once more "sensitive" and with much caution. One can thus bring out some of signal strength and signal quality may again. In the first experiment with me with a wet cloth for example received by the receiver with the longest cable no more DMAX (signal quality only about 24%, and high bit error rate). After further fine adjustment with the damp cloth then perfect picture with approximately 66% quality and no bit errors.
I've bought also still a satellite instrument from Satlink (Satlink WS-6926 DVB-S and DVB-S2), as you can see not only directly in aligning the antenna spot the important values (BER, S / N, signal levels in dBĩV) but may be equal so that television :-) Such a device is relatively expensive (and still no professional device!), but extremely helpful. At least much more helpful than the 10 satellite beeper.
