Help Please

no1birdman

cnbc, adjusted the little thing on the end could not improve quality only by 1, up down did not improve, side/side no improvement, scaned no more channels, still no bbc etc but the channels like horror and movies for men are good picture but they say only 30 quality. Thanks

Liameter

The LNB "skew" (rotational position) should be adjusted to obtain maximum "signal quality".

no1birdman

None of them went up by more than1m singal strengh went to 71 quality went to 31, best i could get, did not move sat more than 1 in side to side or up and down more than 1 in.Would it help if the sat was positioned higher up on a pole as I have it about 8ft off the ground on my bungalow wall. Thanks

Liameter

The satellite cluster is about 24,000 miles away so another foot closer won't help at all - unless the dish is aimed at an obstruction such as a tree.

Did you adjust the LNB skew?

no1birdman

yes no difference

Liameter

That's extremely weird. So turning the LNB in its holder does not change the "signal quality" indication at all? It ought to decrease as you turn the LNB clockwise or anticlockwise from its optimum position.

no1birdman

Hi, I ment it did not go up anymore, that was the best I could get

polyfusion

Have you tried scanning individual transponders, for example 10773 H 22000 which should get you some BBC channels?

no1birdman

No, how do i do that please.

polyfusion

On the Aldi box I have, I do the following:

• Press "MENU" on remote
• Select "Installation" from menu
• Select "Manual scan" on next menu

On the next screen there are a number of changeable fields.

• You need to make sure you have the Astra/Eurobird satellite selected (or whatever satellite you've been scanning to get the few channels you already have).
• Select the relevant transponder, for example, the one I gave in my previous post.
• Then press whatever button is required to scan (IIRC, on the box I have, it's the BLUE button. There are hints at the bottom on the screen that tell you what buttons are required to be pressed to carry out various actions)

Then exit out of the menus to see if there are any new channels present.

no1birdman

Hi, there are no manual scan, it goes menu, instalation, pick sat, auto scan with network off, now if i select network on it scans everey transponder i think.Thanks.

polyfusion

Is there a "Manual-*anything*", maybe "manual search", or just "Manual"?

An option like "Blind scan" or "Blind search" should search for transponders and add any missing ones, then add all the channels it can find from those transponders.

no1birdman

hi, it says if u scan it with network on it will look for new and additional transponders, shall i try that one. and also it says in the book there is a blind scan, which one shall i try first as i have no idea where the blind scan is yet but do no where the network is.

polyfusion

Try both, order doesn't really matter. If you have problems, these boxes can usually be reset to factory settings.

What model number is on it? I can try to find a manual online, find it hard to believe that there is no option to do a single transponder scan.

no1birdman

hi, model sdsatkit-al, I will have a go. Thanks

no1birdman

Done it, got all channels, did a blind scan of all the transponders,Thank you very much for all the help given I would not have been able to set it up without you. Thank You Again