Dish size for Bulgariasat 1 1.9E?

percivjr

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I'm in NE Essex with a dish size of 80cm and I can't receive it.

Lyngsat reckons it's 52dBW in our area and suggests a dish size of 50cm.

But, as an example, Hellas Sat 39E is about the same signal strength and I can pick that up just fine.
 

william-1

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I am in West Essex & have good reception here with a 45cm dish.
 
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percivjr

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I can't receive it.


Problem solved. When I set up my positioner I entered the longitude as 1.61E instead of 1.061E. Idiot!

I guess that as it's so close to Bulgariasat on 1.9E that there is no room for error. The other two dozen satellites were working perfectly.

Thanks to everyone for making me look at this again.
 

william-1

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45 cm for the whole of the South of England see footprint for 1.9 east below,
You may need a 60cm in Cornwall :)
 

mb2410

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hi i live in the NE of uk and have a 1m setup and am having problems trying to lock on to this sat everytime i put in frequency its says invalid,now i know that motor is set right as having no problems with other sats
using a tm5402 setup and black ultra lmb but just not getting anywhere with it
any advice much appreciated please
 

mb2410

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hi i live in the NE of uk and have a 1m setup and am having problems trying to lock on to this sat everytime i put in frequency its says invalid,now i know that motor is set right as having no problems with other sats
using a tm5402 setup and black ultra lmb but just not getting anywhere with it
any advice much appreciated please
 

manic01

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Should get it easy, I had issues on some sats with IBU before.
Just for trial, try adding active 1.9e tp on to 1w or 3e and nudge dish and see if it scans in.
Add 12303 H 30000 to 3e and try scan that.
 
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mb2410

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cheers manic got it on 3e managed to nudge dish on diseqc 1.2 settings and it pulled in all frequencies but it wont do nowt on usals but i,ll settle for that lol
thanks again for your help manic01,,,,much appreciated
 

mb2410

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cheers manic got it on 3e managed to nudge dish on diseqc 1.2 settings and it pulled in all frequencies but it wont do nowt on usals but i,ll settle for that lol
thanks again for your help manic01,,,,much appreciated
 
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