Sky - New Dish(ish) and installing

yop

Lads,

I seem to be going around in circles with this one!!

I bought a 2nd hand dish of a lad here on boards with a box, took the box to my parents to check it worked, no bother.

So I took it home, we are in temp accomadation so I cannot install this on the wall so I am trying this on the ground.

I tried initallly but getting no signal strenght at all, even though I thought I was facing in the general direction.

So I got a SAT finder off Tony there in Satellite.ie, cheers Tony.

Was working with it there this avo, connected the saf finder, and it hangs just under the LNB arm and not between the lnb and dish.

So turned on the receiver and the needle on the finder is 2.

So I moved it to 5 as per the instructions. It staarts to beep. I moved it to where I suspected the direction of the satellite and it moved the needle to the max. I checked the signanl strenght but no change.

I turned down the needle using the dial to 5, I moved again and it squealed to 8 again.
Still no signal.

Any idea??


I have the dish in my hands, would this be an issue??

Cheers lads. I have searched the net but have had no joy!!

DMC

Whats the view like? Do you have good line of sight? No tree/walls obstructing your view south?

Ronan|Raven

The dish would ideally need to be on a pole of some sort. Holding it in your hand will cause a lot of problems. I held a spare mini dish I had in my hands and managed to pick up a few sats but only as I had 2 dishes giving me exact barings I couldnt have done it. Putting it on the pole and setting the correct elevation then moving east/west would be the best imho.

byte

It also could be a case of you pointing the dish at a different satellite closeby like Astra 1 for example.

As Ronan says though, it's best putting it on a pole of some sort.

Also, on some boxes, especially older Pace's, there was times it would not register a signal, even when one was present and needed a reboot. Doesn't happen often though.

watty

If you are on a different satellite which has not the transponder the box is tuned in on, you get no signal and no quality.

If it is a Sky box, it may need unplugged and plugged in a gain as it gets a bit confused with the wrong satellite at times. It also will see no signal or qulaity if the satellite you are pointing at has not got a similar transponder, though the signal on Beeper is fine.

There are about 20 satelites can be received easily on 80cm dish and at least 6 very strong ones.

yop

Thanks gents, I think I might leave all this now until I move into the new place, not worth the effort, but I can see what you are on about though.

thanks for your help