I relocated the tripod to a better location in the patio and now it locks to a few more TPs on the same Hispasat 30W. There are a couple of trees farther away still but quality jumped to 88% from 68% before. Watching the soccer game between Argentina and Chile via Canal 7 from Chile which by the way it is on PPV on Dish Network!!!!. BTW that channel shows IRDETO as the Conditional Access System (CAS) yet my receiver still plays the video and audio. Of course other channels using either Irdeto or PowerVU or Nagravision are black screen for me. No idea why this one with irdeto works.

Yeah, a bigger Dish means higher directionality and of course more dificult to aim lol lol. Will try Galaxy 18 myself tomorrow.