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Astra 1E seems really rather buggered
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My CNBC Europe was starting to crumble again, and the analogues always been horribly sparkly, so I went up and poked the Astra 1 dish as much as I can - its a bit rusty, already.
Now, when I last twiddled the dish around a bit I was getting ~43-46 arbitary Comag percentages, enough to get a signal lock, on 1E and ~60% on most of the other birds. I'd dropped to 40-43% - not enough to stay stable - on 1E.
Its now back at about 43-46. The other channels ae 67-70, lowest non-1E is 58, highest is 76 (both solid). Only 1E fluctuates madly. The dish was clearly a bit off, but it hadn't moved itself or anything since last time.
Someone else mentioned 1E problems last night on technical: http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=352354
Is it on very low power or drifting or what?
Now, when I last twiddled the dish around a bit I was getting ~43-46 arbitary Comag percentages, enough to get a signal lock, on 1E and ~60% on most of the other birds. I'd dropped to 40-43% - not enough to stay stable - on 1E.
Its now back at about 43-46. The other channels ae 67-70, lowest non-1E is 58, highest is 76 (both solid). Only 1E fluctuates madly. The dish was clearly a bit off, but it hadn't moved itself or anything since last time.
Someone else mentioned 1E problems last night on technical: http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=352354
Is it on very low power or drifting or what?
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I know our locations are significantly different, but there appears to have been no degradation here at all.
Yes, I believe it is - As you know, we watch Rai quite a bit (generally from 13E, but occasionally on 19e if it saves moving the Dish) and I generally find the 1E TPs to be among the weakest from 19E.
This is most noticeable in the mornings, so I tend to use that fact in my favour when tweaking the Dish.
Never had any problems with Lock in any conditions, though.