Check dish

irisheddie85

Hi. About to move into a new house. It has a dish on the rear wall that looks to be wired to a junction box out side the house. All the rooms in the house look to have a standard tv point in the wall. Is there an easy and cheap way to check if the dish is in working order and what rooms are/aren't receiving a signal.

The Cush

A satellite meter if you have one, otherwise a satellite receiver connected to a TV or a combi sat TV.

How many sat cables from the LNB on to dish to the house?

irisheddie85

The Cush wrote: »

A satellite meter if you have one, otherwise a satellite receiver connected to a TV or a combi sat TV.

How many sat cables from the LNB on to dish to the house?

Thanks. Not sure how many cables are coming off it, will check next chance I get.
Will that make any difference to just plugging in a receiver and seeing if I get a signal or what does it affect?

The Cush

irisheddie85 wrote: »

Will that make any difference to just plugging in a receiver and seeing if I get a signal or what does it affect?

Just wondering if each output is feeding a TV point separately or is the dish feeding a multiswitch via 4 cables, where the sat feed might be combined with a terrestrial aerial feed to each point.

Tony

Take a look in the junction box and see how many cables are coming from the dish and how many are connected to internal cabling . Its most likely a service box that was installed when the house was built.