Saorview Problem - Can Only Get Irish Channels

Son

Hi

Im just helping my dad to sort out his saorview.

He has the triax tsc 114 combi box and a satellite dish,as far as I can see everything is plugged in right.

When we do an auto search we only pick up the irish channels,the signal is around 69% and we are in Dublin West,the quality is showing 0%.

We tried adjusting the dish in small amounts but the best we got was 72% signal,is that good enough?

I think there is something small we may be missing,can anyone help

zg3409

If the dish is new, and you have never set up a dish before, it is a really difficult task to point a dish. You could google on how to point a dish and we could offer advice here. If you can afford 50 or 60 Euro an installer with specialist tools and experience could have it done in 30 minutes. Having a go yourself could take 10 or 20 hours of total frustration.

You may get a signal value, but that does not mean the dish is pointed right at all.

Son

Jeez....I didn't think it would be that difficult!

We got one of these meters today to help tune it.

You turn the dial fully clockwise and adjust the dish until is at max reading,ok thats fine......then it says turn the meter anti-clockwise and adjust the dish again until the meter goes to max on the scale but it just seems to be staying at 1 even though we moved the dish in small incriments while its pointing in the correct direction.

Are we talking about moving the dish in millimeters at a time?

I will have a look at the videos

Knasher

If you want to align the dish, I'd advise you to go to http://www.satpointer.com/ put in your address, select the satelitte at 28.2E and it will give you a line which is where your dish should be pointed, find a land mark on that line and point it towards it. If your dish has an elevation meter on its side, then set that at about 22 degrees. You should be able to find the signal from there with small movements of the dish.

zg3409

Make life easy and pay someone, it is hard.

If not then my recommendations are

1) Bring the box to someone's house who has Sky and connect it in and tune the channels on an already pointed dish. This will save you 3 or 4 hours later. Make a note of a channel that has an onscreen logo such as Sky news and note it's number.

2) Bring the TV and receiver OUTSIDE right beside the dish

3) At the start the beeper is not much use, but connect it in-line anyway. It will beep at any satellite but there are dozens and it will beep at the wrong one.

4) Put your exact house into this website:
http://www.dishpointer.com

and select 28.2 East

From this you should roughly know which side of the house to use. Also look at neighbours Sky dishes.

5) Beware the dish needs to be nearly vertcial (straight up) with the arm out nearly straight. That website will give you elevation for your location. On the dish there may be rough elevation marks.

6) Tune the TV and receiver to the channel you found before (Sky news), now very slowly move the dish mm by mm until you see a hint of Sky news even for a second. (it's good to turn the volume up full. If you can get Sky news even blocky you are nearly there.

7) For fine tuning turn the beeper until it makes a noise, then turn it down so the noise just stops. Now move the dish slightly until the noise starts again. Again turn the knob down and move the dish until it beeps again. Keep moving until you get best results from the beeper and a high signal quality from the receiver. It is very important to spend time on this now to prevent blocky pictures in a few months time.

You should expect possibly to get nothing but frustration for the first hour, even if you follow these instructions to the letter. Have a look for some videos too, they might help.

Son

Thanks for the help,never thought it would be so tricky.I think he might be getting someone out to adjust it,if not might have anther go

Tony

heres a video which may help, skip to 2:55

scottishriver

need to know my friend has two saorview boxes and were working fine up till recently when all but irish channels disapeared she dose not have a dish it is through her arial could this be the problem.

The Cush

scottishriver wrote: »

my friend has two saorview boxes and were working fine up till recently when all but irish channels disapeared she dose not have a dish it is through her arial could this be the problem.

What channels disappeared? Is she picking up the UK channels with that aerial? Where is she located?

scottishriver

all the uk channels disapeared and she is located in balbriggan