[mythtvnz] DVB-S (was Re: Quality of WinTV PVR 150)

[Noel & Di]

As a rule of thumb and a quick "in the country" method if you're using 
the strength indicator for tuning... tune 12456 but make it V (not H) & 
then adjust for MINIMUM signal and you will have the skew angle very 
close to correct.

Tortise wrote:
> Well diagnosed guys!
> I changed the elevation up ~1 degree, which seemed to give the best signal I could achieve.  Rotation seemed to make no gain.
> I am now getting:
> S 70-80% and Q of 83-90% vs (for convenience) the previous
> S 62-70% and Q of 65-72%
> Clearly some improvement, of course currently making no discernable difference, be interesting to see how much less depix will be 
> noted, hopefully there'll be no more!  Will advise in due course.
> Kind regards
> David Hingston
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Noel & Di" <noel at igrin.co.nz>
> To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 8:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] DVB-S (was Re: Quality of WinTV PVR 150)
>
>
> Tortise, you will probably find your dish requires a small adjustment to
> it's elevation angle, I have found a lot of earlier $ky dishes to be not
> as precisely aligned as they otherwise should be.  I have two 20cm
> dishes under a clear polycarbonate roofing and get no pixelation.  S=74,
> BER=0.0
>
> Hadley Rich wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 21:10 +1200, Tortise wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Good point Hads.  For DVB-S I am (currently) using a KAON KSF-200 STB
>>> which gives me live readings of S 62-70% and Q of 65-72% on a
>>> dish which has not been checked for a long time.  Are these the best
>>> indication of alignment?  I had (perhaps wrongly) assumed this
>>> was satisfactory, perhaps I should revise the dish position?
>>>
>>>       
>> I'm not an expert on all things satellite by any means. We get 80-85%
>> Signal with S/N ~4.7dB in Myth here (Technotrend cards) and don't see
>> any issues at all (except, as someone else mentioned, when snow settles
>> on the dish - but the garden hose fixes that).
>>
>> hads :)
>>
>>     
>
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