Freesat box cant tune in

syboit

Hi,

Almost finished my wavefrontier install, and plugged in humax freesat box today.

I can manually scan in all the channels, however under "freesat tune" I get nothing and it says signal strenght/quality 0%.

I was able to plug the humax into my sky dish and it worked perfectly there, I then moved it back over to the wavefrontier connection, "freesat tune" still didnt work, but all the channels were coming in fine (after I had tuned them in on the skydish)

Does this sound like an issue with my lnb not alligned correctly?

Cesium Clock

syboit wrote: »

Hi,

Almost finished my wavefrontier install, and plugged in humax freesat box today.

I can manually scan in all the channels, however under "freesat tune" I get nothing and it says signal strenght/quality 0%.

I was able to plug the humax into my sky dish and it worked perfectly there, I then moved it back over to the wavefrontier connection, "freesat tune" still didnt work, but all the channels were coming in fine (after I had tuned them in on the skydish)

Does this sound like an issue with my lnb not alligned correctly?

Are you using a diseqc switch ? If so you need to have astra 28 on port 1

The Cush

Had a similar issue with Freesat and wavefrontier dish in the past. Attached the receiver to a standard Sky dish and tuned no problem. Reconnected it to the wavefrontier and all worked well.

Never figured out the actual problem but guessed the the wavefrontier was overloading the Freesat receiver with too much signal for the particular transponder the receiver locks onto for Freesat setup.

Also had to stick a few attenuators on the feed for a Sony TV with built-in sat receiver to pull in some channels.

syboit

Cesium Clock wrote: »

Are you using a diseqc switch ? If so you need to have astra 28 on port 1

thanks, have no diseqc switch setup yet. At the moment I have a octo lnb for 28.2 and have the humax plugged into one of those.

syboit

The Cush wrote: »

Had a similar issue with Freesat and wavefrontier dish in the past. Attached the receiver to a standard Sky dish and tuned no problem. Reconnected it to the wavefrontier and all worked well.

Never figured out the actual problem but guessed the the wavefrontier was overloading the Freesat receiver with too much signal for the particular transponder the receiver locks onto for Freesat setup.

Also had to stick a few attenuators on the feed for a Sony TV with built-in sat receiver to pull in some channels.

thanks, I was thinking if that was even possible ? As I'm getting 100% on practically all the transponders. I did find some sites which say that freesat transmits their data for tuning/epg on transponder 11427 (which I'm getting 0% signal and strenght on).

My main tv also has a built in freesat tuner, might I require an attenuator for that aswell ?

Ronnie Raygun

That tp is on Eutelsat 28A (formerly Eurobird 1) @ 28.5 east.

How are you for other tps from this particular satellite?

syboit

Ronnie Raygun wrote: »

That tp is on Eutelsat 28A (formerly Eurobird 1) @ 28.5 east.

How are you for other tps from this particular satellite?

thanks, I thought it was on 28.2 aswell. I will check some others.

syboit

went through the TP's from this page,

http://www.lyngsat.com/Eutelsat-28A.html

and found half of them coming in at signal strenght at 100% and quality fairly high aswell, and the other half at 0%/0%

zg3409

Could it be the LNB Skew? The skew will need to be the opposite of normal as the dish double mirrors everything, I think.

Are all the ones missing horizontal or vertical, highband or lowband?

syboit

zg3409 wrote: »

Could it be the LNB Skew? The skew will need to be the opposite of normal as the dish double mirrors everything, I think.

Are all the ones missing horizontal or vertical, highband or lowband?

That page has 3 tables on lyngsat, looks like I'm missing most of the TP's in the first table and all of them in the last table. I have all the TP's from the middle table.

I'm thinking when I positioned 28.2E on the rail of the wavefrontier I never took into account that the position (looking at the wavefrontier calculator) of 28.5 is a small bit further along the rail. So not sure if I should skew the lnb or move it slightly more to the west.

SalteeDog

The Super and Fixed beams on 28A are weaker than the S1 beam alright (they are by some stretch the weakest transponders in that satellite group). I agree, you have some more fine tuning to do.