Astra 2 help!!!

tunner

Can anyone help me? My father in law has a small cottage in frenchpark roscommon and we have installed a fta sat on the house. I've been down there a half a dozen times this uear and due to go go back next weekend. I've spent hours and I mean hours every time I go down trying to tune in astra 2 sat and I can't manage it. I bought a sat finder and I can only get hotbird! Does anyone know how to do this or could help me. I don't have much money so I've been trying it myself and itsbeen ruining our holidays!

Any help GREATELY appreciated!

Tunner

Peter Rhea

This site might be useful.

You obviously need to align your dish further east (your right side as you face the dish) from where you receive Hotbird & lower its elevation by 5 degrees or so.

tryfix

Your at 13.east of south on Hot bird next is Astra 1 at 19.east and then comes Astra 2 at 28.2 . east . The dish should be tilted very slightly forward at 28.2 east .

tunner

tryfix wrote: »

Your at 13.east of south on Hot bird next is Astra 1 at 19.east and then comes Astra 2 at 28.2 . east . The dish should be tilted very slightly forward at 28.2 east .

The dish is tilted to 22.5 degrees. I tuned in hotbird afew times but lately haven't been able to tune in anything and I'm getting frustrated doing it. I've tried everything. Compas shows 28.2 degrees being way off to one side buy I know that it's not in that direction as some of the sky dishes down the road point in the other direction!
Basically I am ****e at tuning this thing in!

Peter Rhea

28.2 degrees is the longitude at which the satellites maintain their orbit, it's not a bearing from your location.

The dishpointer site will show you this.

tryfix

tunner wrote: »

The dish is tilted to 22.5 degrees. I tuned in hotbird afew times but lately haven't been able to tune in anything and I'm getting frustrated doing it. I've tried everything. Compas shows 28.2 degrees being way off to one side buy I know that it's not in that direction as some of the sky dishes down the road point in the other direction!
Basically I am ****e at tuning this thing in!

Dont mind the compass , the dish should be pointed roughly at where the sun is at 10 or eleven in the morning . Turn up the sensitivity on the meter to the last and swing the dish over an other few inches slowly turning down the meter sensitivity as you fine tune the satellite position . I would think you have the dish tilted back a small bit from vertical to be getting Hotbird on it , if you have the dish almost vertical it should be ideal for roughly tuning in . If your dish is nowhere near where the sun is at 12 o clock during the day then it's not hotbird you are receiving . Keep at it , we all found it hard to do at first .

PogMoThoin

tryfix wrote: »

tunner wrote: »

The dish is tilted to 22.5 degrees. I tuned in hotbird afew times but lately haven't been able to tune in anything and I'm getting frustrated doing it. I've tried everything. Compas shows 28.2 degrees being way off to one side buy I know that it's not in that direction as some of the sky dishes down the road point in the other direction!
Basically I am ****e at tuning this thing in!

Dont mind the compass , the dish should be pointed roughly at where the sun is at 10 or eleven in the morning . Turn up the sensitivity on the meter to the last and swing the dish over an other few inches slowly turning down the meter sensitivity as you fine tune the satellite position . I would think you have the dish tilted back a small bit from vertical to be getting Hotbird on it , if you have the dish almost vertical it should be ideal for roughly tuning in . If your dish is nowhere near where the sun is at 12 o clock during the day then it's not hotbird you are receiving . Keep at it , we all found it hard to do at first .

I can do it, I'm in Frenchpark, pm me

montgolfiere

Dont forget that some Sky Digiboxes 'Lock up' when pointed at 13e and need 'rebooting'..... ONCE THE DISH HAS BEEN TURNED AWAY from the Hotbird Satellite. ie TURNED OFF AT THE MAINS....
The Skyman