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Dish alignment - formally Re: [MSG-1] Gaps in AVHRR images yesterday.

geojohnt@...
 

Jan,

I seem to remember you said in the past that you were not sure about a tree, or was it part of a roof 'in the way?'
We will soon be coming up to Sun, satellite, dish co-linearity in October so you will have several days to see if anything is 'shadowing' your dish. 
In the meantime you can find out the Eutelsat 10 A solar crossing time for your location from David's WXtrack which will give you an idea of any current or future potential shadowing as the Sun gets lower towards co-linearity.

And have you tried www.dishpointer.com (recommended by EUMETSAT) which will show what is 'ahead of your dish' locally.

Oh, and skew is very important since there is (also) a V channel transmitting at 11.623 GHz which needs to be nulled out with accurate skew adjustment.

Regards,
John.

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From: Cornish Man via groups.io <cornishman68@...>
To: MSG-1@groups.io <MSG-1@groups.io>
Sent: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:49
Subject: Re: [MSG-1] Gaps in AVHRR images yesterday.

Hi John.
 
I know I should be getting more DB’s
I adjust the dish Manually as I don’t have a Dish Finder.
 
Using my mobile with Remote Desktop I adjust the dish to get the best signal.
 
I purchased a Inverto Black Ultra LNB a month and I found that I got 1db or so less signal than with my old Technomate T2 LNB
 
Cheers
 
Jan
 
 
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From: geojohnt via groups.io
Sent: 24 September 2020 10:35
To: MSG-1@groups.io
Subject: Re: [MSG-1] Gaps in AVHRR images yesterday.
 
Hello Cornish Man,
 
Well if you are in Cornwall and using a 110 cm dish, you've got problems.
But then I think we have discussed this in the past?
 
I'm using a 1 m dish with an Inverto Black Ultra LNB in SW London and at the moment 09:25 UTC with clear skies am getting 13.1 dB SNR with an SR1.
 
You are well within the maximum signal contour so should be getting much better SNR.
 
Regards,
John.
 


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Cornish Man
 

Hi John

 

I moved the dish out of the path of the tree and mounted it higher.

And used dishpointer to align it first, then move it till I get a stronger signal as well as the skew

 

I will have to take the dish down soon as the council is putting a new roof up and the dish will be in the way of the scaffolding  

 

Jan

 

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From: geojohnt via groups.io
Sent: 24 September 2020 13:03
To: MSG-1@groups.io
Subject: Dish alignment - formally Re: [MSG-1] Gaps in AVHRR images yesterday.

 

Jan,

 

I seem to remember you said in the past that you were not sure about a tree, or was it part of a roof 'in the way?'

We will soon be coming up to Sun, satellite, dish co-linearity in October so you will have several days to see if anything is 'shadowing' your dish. 

In the meantime you can find out the Eutelsat 10 A solar crossing time for your location from David's WXtrack which will give you an idea of any current or future potential shadowing as the Sun gets lower towards co-linearity.

 

And have you tried www.dishpointer.com (recommended by EUMETSAT) which will show what is 'ahead of your dish' locally.

 

Oh, and skew is very important since there is (also) a V channel transmitting at 11.623 GHz which needs to be nulled out with accurate skew adjustment.

 

Regards,

John.

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Cornish Man via groups.io <cornishman68@...>
To: MSG-1@groups.io <MSG-1@groups.io>
Sent: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:49
Subject: Re: [MSG-1] Gaps in AVHRR images yesterday.

Hi John.

 

I know I should be getting more DB’s

I adjust the dish Manually as I don’t have a Dish Finder.

 

Using my mobile with Remote Desktop I adjust the dish to get the best signal.

 

I purchased a Inverto Black Ultra LNB a month and I found that I got 1db or so less signal than with my old Technomate T2 LNB

 

Cheers

 

Jan

 

 

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

 

From: geojohnt via groups.io
Sent: 24 September 2020 10:35
To: MSG-1@groups.io
Subject: Re: [MSG-1] Gaps in AVHRR images yesterday.

 

Hello Cornish Man,

 

Well if you are in Cornwall and using a 110 cm dish, you've got problems.

But then I think we have discussed this in the past?

 

I'm using a 1 m dish with an Inverto Black Ultra LNB in SW London and at the moment 09:25 UTC with clear skies am getting 13.1 dB SNR with an SR1.

 

You are well within the maximum signal contour so should be getting much better SNR.

 

Regards,

John.

 

 

 

 
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