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Help! - How can I get Food Newtwork back?

  • 19-08-2013 9:24pm
    #1
    Loobz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I have a freeview/saorview box hooked up to a dish outside for uk freeview. I have adjusted the dish so its receiving the strongest signal. However I cannot get Food Network, or the +1.

    I did have them before, so I retuned the receiver, found Food Newtwork but, alas, no signal!

    Can anyone give me some advice on how to get it back?

    I am using an Ariva Combi box with a 60cm dish.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Loobz wrote: »
    I have a freeview/saorview box hooked up to a dish outside for uk freeview. I have adjusted the dish so its receiving the strongest signal. However I cannot get Food Network, or the +1.

    I did have them before, so I retuned the receiver, found Food Newtwork but, alas, no signal!

    Do you have the other channels on that transponder such as the 3 Showcase channels CBS Reality and Information TV?

    What were you using for a meter when you were adjusting the dish?


  • #3
    Loobz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭Loobz


    The Cush wrote: »
    Do you have the other channels on that transponder such as the 3 Showcase channels CBS Reality and Information TV?

    What were you using for a meter when you were adjusting the dish?

    Cannot get showcase, CBS Reality and Information TV now that you mention it. I was using an basic audio meter to adjust the dish.


  • #4
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Loobz wrote: »
    Cannot get showcase, CBS Reality and Information TV now that you mention it. I was using an basic audio meter to adjust the dish.

    Are any other channels missing? The ones you list above are on the Eutelsat satellite - http://en.kingofsat.net/pos-28.2E.php

    You may have moved the dish slightly out of alignment for this satellite/transponder and audio meters aren't the most accurate for doing this. Is there a signal strength/quality meter on the satellite receiver that you can use to realign the dish, you may need someone with a mobile phone or a good pair of lungs to watch the meter while you move the dish.

    I use one of these meters - http://www.emitor.se/prod_digisat_pro.htm


  • #5
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,074 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    OP presumably it is Freesat and not Freeview you mean? On that basis moving to satellite.


  • #6
    kooga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,914 ✭✭✭kooga


    anybody having issues with the signal quality on food network and +1. Really bad picture quality all this week.

    11344 h 27500


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  • #7
    Gerry Wicklow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,568 ✭✭✭Gerry Wicklow


    Food Network is one of the few channels still on Eutelsat. If you are having similar issues with True Movies or CBS Reality, I would suspect that your dish has moved slightly out of alignment, especially after the high winds we had lately.


  • #8
    Peter Rhea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    kooga wrote: »
    anybody having issues with the signal quality on food network and +1. Really bad picture quality all this week.

    Signal quality & picture quality are not the same thing with a digital system. You can have quite poor signal quality without any effect on the picture. Poor picture quality is usually down to too-low bitrate, when too many services are crammed onto a transponder.


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