Newbie with FTA receiver

Ludo

I wonder if any nice person could point me in the right direction here. Got myself an FTA sat receiver over the weekend and set it up last night. It is connected to a sky dish (quad LNB. Two being used by sky+ box and third cable now connected to new receiver).

Anyway, I did an auto scan of Astra 28 east sat and it picked up about 120 stations or something like that. It got various BBC1, BBC2, ITV1 and ITV2 regions but no sign of BBC3, BBC4, ITV3, ITV4 and no C4 channels at all.

Would anyone know how I get these other channels to be detected? I assume I am looking at the right satellite. Any info greatly appreciated.
I had a look at the thread about adding these channels to the sky box but that does not mention which satellite they are on (unless I missed it).

By the way, I set the scan to only store "free" channels as I didnt want to clog up my channel list with hundreds of encrypted channels.

watty

See is there an option for Network Scan.

Failing that add the transponders manually.

All the channels are there and you are on correct satellite otherwise you would have no BBC1/ITV and Sky+ would not work.

Selection of a different satellite requires moving the dish, not just a menu option!

Ludo

Thanks Watty. I knew the dish has to be pointing at the correct sat alright but was wondering if I was scanning the correct one on the receiver.

Maybe a silly question, but I assume all the channels are correctly labelled are they? Or are some of them possibly going to appear with meaningless names?

Just found it odd that the scan stored some BBC and ITV channels but not others and no C4 ones at all.

I'll try adding them manually later this evening once I figure out how to enter the FEC info as I can't see any obvious way to enter it in the manual search menu page.

joolsveer

As a satellite newbie myself please take what I say with a grain of salt. BBC 3 and 4 are on the same settings as CBBC and CBeebies and Channel 4 shows up as a number 8350 (I think) so the labelling is dodgy.

watty

BBC3 & BBC4 swap with CBBC and Cbeebies in the evening. However my box after a network scan has both set of channels, though of course there are only really 2, not 4.

There should be a menu option for NIT or Network scan.

Ludo

Repeated the network scan again. 4th time doing it I set it to detect all channels and not just the free ones and it got everything correctly. May have been a fluke that it worked this time and nothing to do with the free channel setting though as they were not marked as encrypted when stored like most others. Now time to go through all the hundreds of channels and delete all the encrypted ones and all the sh*t ones which is 99.9% of them :-)

Thanks guys.