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received satellite query

  • 11-02-2012 09:48AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 467 ✭✭


    Hi. i have a quick question which may be obvious anyway here goes,i was fiddling around with a first strike sat meter connected to a 60cm sky dish and set the meter for Astra 1 19.2 degrees east ,when i got good strength/quality i checked my sky box inside and i still had all my channels from Astra 2 28.2 ,is this correct??also i tried tuning other channels from Astra 1 under services etc and just got back no satellite signal,can someone tell me what is happening here,many thanks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,198 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    The issue here is that your dish is still aligned at 28.2E.

    Sat meters will receive signals from whatever satellite the dish is pointed at. You have to move the dish to receive from the specific position selected on your meter (or your receiver box).

    Think of your sat meter (or your receiver box) as a radio - once tuned to a specific frequency, it will receive that signal, from wherever it is coming from. If you have not moved your dish, and the frequency selected is also available on the satellite you are aligned to - then you will receive a signal.

    The service however will be different to what you expect since the station you are actually looking for is on the same frequency, but on another satellite (the one your dish should be pointing at).

    In short, your dish has to be pointed at the satellite that your receiver or sat meter is indicating in order to receive the specific services from that satellite.

    Hope that makes sense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,891 ✭✭✭swoofer


    now why would you do that?? did you move the dish to 19east?? If you did not move the dish you are NOT receiving 19east. Satellites use same frequencies that's why you get so many of them. the sky box is locked to only a few symbol rates ie 22000, 27500 so channels with different symbol rates will not be received. Sky are not too generous and dont like us watching other sats on their boxes.

    so you picked up signals from 28 even though meter was shwoing 19east.... simples


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 467 ✭✭grousedogtom


    Thanks for replies people, my dish was originally set to 28.2 but I wanted to change it to astra 1 so I set meter to astra 1 and moved the dish till I got good readings back, if I was actually pointing to astra 1 should my sky channels have disappeared which they didn't or was I just back where I started at astra 28.2


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,891 ✭✭✭swoofer


    go to dish pointer com and have a little look round, all the sats are at different positions in the sky, so its not a case of just moving dish from a to b , you have to consider dish elevation and skew on lnb and dish size. you may think you are getting a sat signal but it could be anything and if you move dish yes you lose picture.

    what are you trying to achieve?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 467 ✭✭grousedogtom


    Really all I'm trying to achieve is to pick up different satellites as I adjust the dish using the first strike meter for practice more so than anything else, I know the dish is quite small for this but was just seeing could i find other satellites on it


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    In Ireland, a Sky dish should have no problem finding 23.5, 19.2, 13 & 7 east, also 0.8 west.

    Probably the likes of 42 east & 30 west as well, the above are just what I picked up with a Lidl camping dish a while back (looking out a window, blocked from going further west). Some might be outside the skew range of the Sky lnb & will require a bit of 'doctoring'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    to peter rhea ,are you saying you picked up those sats by basically pointing the dish out a window and waving it around to pick them up !


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    I knew where to point; dishpointer, already mentioned by GB above is very useful (helps if there's high res. aerial photos).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    ah i get ya , have been looking at dish pointer i have it all sussed in my head waiting for weather to improve and will make a start with putting up dish setting up freesat etc then my research /knowledge will be tested


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭STB


    If you had a cheap satellite receiver (non sky) The ariva 120 for example. You dont have to move your dish.

    Then you just buy one of these.

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MULTI-LNB-HOLDER-3-LNBs-FITS-ALL-DISHES-/260948250236?pt=UK_ConEle_SatCableFreeview_RL&hash=item3cc1ba4e7c

    and one of these

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DiSEqC-Satellite-Switch-4-X-1-High-Quality/260948250618?ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1&ih=016&category=4693&cmd=ViewItem

    Works on a Sky 60cm dish. No Problem. The Receiver does the rest. Not a Sky box though.


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