Viark Forever boxes

To give me an idea on how my dish
/ motor is performing can anyone in the UK/Eire let me know what strength and quality they get on their Viark 4K on the following TP’s. Preferably people with a 100cm dish!

Thor 0.8W 12418V 28000

Eutelsat 16e 10845H 30000

Thanks!

Those tuner values are useless on a viark, 97% quality on TM 5402 on 16e is 73% on a Viark

manic01 said:

Those tuner values are useless on a viark, 97% quality on TM 5402 on 16e is 73% on a Viark

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That’s why I am trying to work out how well it is performing.

My meter tops out at 85% quality.

Just wondered what others got on the same TP with the same receiver.

I have never seen over 80% quality on the Viark too. Anyone else?

With my Viark Sat 4K and a very badly aligned 1.25 Gibby, I get 91% signal quality on 16 E.

dog-man said:

With my Viark Sat 4K and a very badly aligned 1.25 Gibby, I get 91% signal quality on 16 E.

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Ah so they do go above 80% quality then!

Are you based in the UK?

Ferret said:

I take no notice of the signal strength its all about the quality reading on the 4k and Sat.

I dont think it is the tuners that are bad but how the firmware translates the readings.

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I take no notice of the strength either. I am just trying to work out how well my system is performing to other 80-100cm systems.

Azimuth said:

Ah so they do go above 80% quality then!

Are you based in the UK?

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Extreme SE UK. Any more SE and I would drown. Bear in mind that my dish needs serious tweaking. I keep putting it off as I am not agile as I used to be, but waiting for a nice warm, wind-free day.

dog-man said:

Extreme SE UK. Any more SE and I would drown. Bear in mind that my dish needs serious tweaking. I keep putting it off as I am not agile as I used to be, but waiting for a nice warm, wind-free day.

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You will probably max out at 100% then I’d have thought.

I didn’t even think that was possible on them. Even on Astra 1 and 2 I get 80% quality, I thought that’s what the box topped out at

Azimuth said:

You will probably max out at 100% then I’d have thought.

I didn’t even think that was possible on them. Even on Astra 1 and 2 I get 80% quality, I thought that’s what the box topped out at

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I never take the signal level s as gospel, as every box is different. Pretty meaningless really. They do help when doing a little tweaking if you don't have a dedicated signal meter.

I have VU duo and a viark 4k set up on usals its very strange cause on 16 e Digialb i get 70 and 70 on a 85 dish but on 28e on the vu 95 and viark 62 and all the other sats on much higher on the vu but on viark much lower and the dish is set up correctly

Mikehunt43 said:

I have VU duo and a viark 4k set up on usals its very strange cause on 16 e Digialb i get 70 and 70 on a 85 dish but on 28e on the vu 95 and viark 62 and all the other sats on much higher on the vu but on viark much lower and the dish is set up correctly

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It must be how the Viark interprets the signal.

I get mid 70’s on DigitALB yet get massive swings in quality on 28.2e. Some TP’s are up at 80% some down at 70%. On my meter, that isn’t the case.

Could be a lot to do with the skew required on 28.2 which is difficult for a motorised system to replicate.

New firmware released today for starsat t13 extreme firmware ver 3.10,forever now updated from 1.39 to 1.40, my box is expired so can't check whats extra in forever.

Have any of you ever been able to record on a 4K channel opened by Forever's server?
For example on ELEVEN SPORT 4K?

archiesat said:

New firmware released today for starsat t13 extreme firmware ver 3.10,forever now updated from 1.39 to 1.40, my box is expired so can't check whats extra in forever.

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@ archiesat.
I updated the T14 to the latest firmware revision V1.99 and can confirm it has changed from Forever 1.39 to Forcer 1.40. My box is active but has made no difference to 28.2e.
Regards,
Mike.

Ferret said:

What about sky it ?

From what i have seen from the release notes that is what it covers, no mention of UK.

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Hi Ferret,
Just checked and same results for sky it unfortunately. I'll keep you posted if anything changes
Regards,
Mike.

Ferret said:

Well im not familiar with the starsat but if it is anything like the other Forever boxes you need the additional sub.

SP in the case of Viarks and Mars for the UHD.

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@ Ferret,
Thanks for the info. When I renewed I was told it was SP1. Now whether that really is the case I'm not 100% certain. I'm not too bothered really as I also have a VKarl Sat 4K and I honestly don't use either very much. It's more messing about with them really then watching them for viewing pleasure.
Regards,
Mike.