Ferguson AF 5018 CI Antenna Setup: Boosting Signal Quality from 0%, Signal Strength at 92%

Hello, I follow this topic and I have some suggestions come to the stream I will borrow you a meter or I will help you do it greetings

Wilcza street
near Knurów, about 15 km. from Gliwice

I have about 50 km to the stream. :>
but thanks you for your offer

City: Knurów
Voivodeship: Silesia
Country: Poland, Poland
Latitude: 50 ° 13 'N
Longitude: 18 ° 40 'E
Satellite: Hot Bird 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 6
Position: 13.0 ° E
Bandwidth: Ku
Azimuth angle (Az): 07.0'W or 187.3574 'on the compass
Elevation Angle (El): 32.3 '
Bevel converter 04 'to the right

Now take the compass, set the azimuth, tighten the grip bands
so that it does not change. Now place the antenna vertically
that is elevation 32.3 '

Lidzia wrote:

Azimuth angle (Az): 07.0'W or 187.3574 'on compass'

Is there an amendment between the magnetic and geographic poles here? Because the satellite positions are given or the geographic pole, which is unfortunately elsewhere.

the angle of the elevation probably a bit too big?
I have a problem can it be done without a compass?

http://www.satkurier.pl/azel/ here you have a calculator. without a compass, but you need an analog tuner to set TVN on it and look, set the antenna according to the advice of users who want to help you

@Lidzia where did you get the elevation angle 32 ° 3´ because I have 38.8757. Anyway, there is also a mistake in other places.
After that, I will answer my previous question myself, the calculator does not take into account the so-called magnetic declination, i.e. in Poland, i.e. about 1 °. Maybe it is not much, but it is pointless to be as precise as such a big error and there is nothing about it in the text.
So using such a helper is pointless, even ignoring the influence of the antenna on the compass.

I also got 38 but this angle will not work:> at least for me.
Amosa also writes that I think 32 * now I do not remember exactly and I have much less

tomarex wrote:

@Lidzia where did you get the elevation angle 32 ° 3´ because I have 38.8757. .

And that's where I chose Gliwice http://sci.pam.szczecin.pl/~pastupam/satel/az/index.html I have all the elevations in Mysłowice 32 'I do not write tens because it is not here and everything is running and I did not look for some (the so-called magnetic declinations) only for the calculator and compass, I will also mention that I was setting the analog decoder because the meter cannot get a signal attenuator at the minimum of the knob, it always squealed and I will not buy a 20 m cable to suppress it. If user @swirek does not have a meter, analog tuner, he has to wait for good weather, it's all about the sun and according to this http://sci.pam.szczecin.pl/~pastupam/satel/az/czasaz.html set the antenna

In practice, from February 26 until March 5, you can expect temporary problems with the reception.
For the most popular satellites in Poland, these hours will be:
Astra -19.2 * E from 11:49 to 12:01
Hot Bird- 13.0 * E from 12:20 to 12:30.
The worst time will be on March 1, when the duration of the noise can last more than 12 minutes ...

Despite reception problems, this phenomenon has its advantages.
These days, it is very easy to check where the antenna can be mounted and what obstacles are in the path of the satellite signal.
The shadows of balconies, trees, neighbors' plates, buildings tell us where not to put our plate
and whether we can receive programs from this satellite at all.
At the given time, sunlight from a well-positioned antenna is focused exactly in the center of the plastic of the converter.
It couldn't be easier to set up without any instrument

I do it like this;
-first way - Analog tuner programmed on TVN connected to the set antenna / converter /. The offset antenna is mounted on a vertical handle set to the spirit level, the elevation angle on the antenna is about 20 degrees, pre-mounted so that it does not move but can be turned east-west, with the compass facing south. Then, by gently turning the antenna to the east, I look for the appearance of the TVN program and optimize for the best quality / least drops /, lock the rotation and then optimize the elevation angle by tilting the antenna from the vertical so that the quality is the best. After that I tighten all the screws and the setting is complete.
- second way - digital tuner set to the polsat2 program and checked on a different antenna. Setting such as / with the fact that the appearance of the bar with the signal strength at 90% and the quality 0 means that with this setting, the tuner sees another satellite broadcasting an analog program and you need to continue turning in the east-west direction until the set program appears.
The signal quality is the error rate with which digital transmission is received and therefore in the case of a satellite setting to broadcast an analog program, this parameter is 0.

and I will say that, @ sucker has so much knowledge (and even more hints) and can not set the antenna? oh not nice ....

only the analog tuner remains. There are three channels on the hotbird, it's hard to make a mistake
kisses

2 pages have already been saved and the signal is not there, so there is no buddy, if you have the latest list uploaded, then you probably have friends close to them who have a working satellite, go to them with a tuner and check if it comes, or put a bottle for your neighbor, call his tuner, set the polonium and do the work, yes as my predecessor wrote, I also think that the good old analog would be the most appropriate now reacts immediately

yes, I read how you combine and it is not clearly written, has the tuner been checked on a different dish? just the 90% signal and the quality 0 is a frequent electronic failure of ferdkow and combining with the antenna will not help much
the fact that someone can write on the Allegro, that it is normal, you can always write for me, it worked

misiuzeb wrote:

yes, I read how you combine and it is not clearly written, has the tuner been checked on a different dish? just the 90% signal and the quality 0 is a frequent electronic failure of ferdkow and combining with the antenna will not help much
the fact that someone can write on the Allegro, that an efficient one is normal, you can always write for me, it worked

"Yes you read", but inaccurate - it was written that he had picked up some program on this tuner.
Many people told him how to set the antenna, but he does everything his own way and therefore nothing comes out !!!

Hello, I will say, like my predecessor, so many posts about antenna alignment ?!
If I were to assume the topic, I would call a specialist who would take 5 minutes. because that's how much I get off the correct positioning of the previously attached antenna and the problem is over. Regards GKVIDEO

I set the stress
I was sneezing it to set the maximum signal strength, only looking at the quality
the antenna is not positioned even from 25 * upwards
thank you to everyone who contributed only a few of these free-to-air programs; (I was hoping for more