Sky box and UK Channels

Reganovski

Apologies because I bet this has been asked already.

Just got a spare sky box. I have it connected and i have turned the sky card upside down meaning that the english channels are 101, 102 etc.

I can view Sky News but for the BBC channels I get "No satellite signal being received".

How do I get the UK channels?

Mr Moon

You don't even need to turn the card upside down. I have my spare box setup to the english version with no card in it at all. Just turn it off by the socket and take the card out and turn it back on. Should have all the channels you want, except channel 5, don't know why that doesn't show up on the epg!

JDxtra

Could be a faulty box, or the dish could be out of alignment. What other channels can you receive ok? What is the signal strength / quality like (in services menu).

Reganovski

JDxtra wrote: »

Could be a faulty box, or the dish could be out of alignment. What other channels can you receive ok? What is the signal strength / quality like (in services menu).

I'm living in an apartment block and I'm told the bedroom is wired. At the moment I've taken the card out and I only have 2 BBC news programs, 503, 504 I think. Sky news no longer working. Signal is nil while quality is half way. If I have half quality must mean I have a signal, right?

Reganovski

Am I right in saying that if I can see Sky News, CNN and the BBC news channels that I have a signal? It in the bedroom I have the box but I'm not sure whether its wired for Sky. I've been told it is wired but it has a different connection to main living room. In the living room, its a screw-in cable (male to female) while in the bedroom its just a male cable into a female connection with no screw in.

montgolfiere

what is the signal strength /quality on the box in the living room.
also try the box on the living room feed to see if it is working Ok.
that will give a few pointers!!
'No' signal strength even with 'some' quality suggests some sort of problem
The Skyman

Kensington

Hang on, when you say the bedroom is wired for sky, is this actually it's own direct feed, or is it just a simple two-way split from the living room feed? Satellite feeds are not splittable like standard cable TV is - satellite TV works in four modes (combinations of Vertical and Horizontal polarity and low-band and high-band) and your box needs to be able to communicate with the LNB on the dish in order to instruct it to switch to the appropriate polarity/band combination for the channel you are trying to watch. If you just do an F-split on a satellite cable, the two boxes will now effectively fight each other for control of the LNB receive mode. If both boxes are requesting the same polarity/band, then they will both receive channels fine but if they are requesting different combinations, you run into problems.

Easy way to find out is to plug your box in the living room out. Does the box in the bedroom now work fine?
What about if you set both boxes to receive BBC1? Does they both work fine?
Now switch one box to Sky News - do you get a No Signal message on one of the boxes?

Reganovski

Looks like the room isn't wired for sky at all....the box works perfectly connected up in the main room. :mad: