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BBC in France

  • 01-04-2008 2:42pm
    #1
    hargo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭


    I brought over a FTA receiver to France and connected it to a dish (85cm)with BBC1 selected. I aligned the dish until I got a signal over 70% on both strength and quality but I was not getting any picture or sound. Tried other channels and radio which i had pretuned and it was the same. The connections were fine. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?


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  • #2
    biologikal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 371 ✭✭biologikal


    Dish probably not looking at 28.2E. You should either select another satellite on your reciever and do a blind scan, or move your dish until you get another signal and see BBC coming in.

    If dish was already installed there, likely it was looking at 13E, then maybe 19.2E.

    Would advise doing the blind scan first, make sure you can actually get a signal with the set-up. Then once you determine where it's pointing, move appropriately until you find 28.2E


  • #3
    hargo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭hargo


    I set the dish until i received a good signal quality on BBC. Why would I get a good signal quality and no picture?


  • #4
    Tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,341 ✭✭✭✭Tony


    hargo wrote: »
    I set the dish until i received a good signal quality on BBC. Why would I get a good signal quality and no picture?

    Because as Biologikal suggests you may be on the wrong satellite.

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  • #5
    hargo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭hargo


    Thanks for replies, guess I'll give it another go.


  • #6
    Tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,341 ✭✭✭✭Tony


    hargo wrote: »
    Thanks for replies, guess I'll give it another go.

    Try a different frequency as many transponders on astra 1 and 2 are very similar

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  • #7
    Tomas_V
    Closed Accounts Posts: 238 ✭✭Tomas_V


    It's a wonder the satellite folks never thought of putting out an ID signal on agreed channel, to help people know what they're pointing at.


  • #8
    Tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,341 ✭✭✭✭Tony


    Tomas_V wrote: »
    It's a wonder the satellite folks never thought of putting out an ID signal on agreed channel, to help people know what they're pointing at.

    This is already in use for some satellite meters but for the diy all you need do is identify a channel by its picture or logo using a database like lyngsat for reference. For example if you see a lot of german channels you are on astra 1

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  • #9
    RAMADAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭RAMADAN


    hargo wrote: »
    I brought over a FTA receiver to France and connected it to a dish (85cm)with BBC1 selected. I aligned the dish until I got a signal over 70% on both strength and quality but I was not getting any picture or sound. Tried other channels and radio which i had pretuned and it was the same. The connections were fine. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

    Are you using a sat meter? I found this was the ONLY way to get good enough signal tweaked.


  • #10
    biologikal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 371 ✭✭biologikal


    RAMADAN wrote: »
    Are you using a sat meter? I found this was the ONLY way to get good enough signal tweaked.

    I think if he's getting 70% in both intensity and quality, then it's very likely that a picture would be showing, especially on a FTA channel.

    Different satellites may be transmitting a bunch of channels at the same frequency, which might explain the situation here, but other parameters such as FEC and PID are used within each frequency for each of the individual channels within a frequency. Between satellites, these are very likely to be different, hence the black screen.

    A bit more investigation shows that BBC 1 NI is on frequency 10773 H on Astra 28.2E. The same frequency is used on Astra 19.2E, but the PID values are different. If the OP was to scan that transponder where BBC should be, he's likely going to pull in a few Polish channels.

    http://www.flysat.com/28east.php
    http://www.flysat.com/astra19.php


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