Fitted New Satellite Dish but only getting BBC Channels and a few others - Help please

Well since you emphasize you are not a techie…

Did you do a full scan of 28.2 Satellite on the Walker box? How many channels did it report were 'found' after the scan was complete?

edit: setup guide for you box

https://www.freetv.ie/walker-wp645ts-hd-combo-video-user-manual/

In that case I think you'd need whomever installed the dish back to check the alignment of the dish and the cables.

About the only thing you could try yourself is make sure the input satellite cable on the back of the box is in good shape, i.e it's screwed in and inserted fully and check there's no stray copper fibers causing a short circuit. Just do a visual inspection for anything that looks out of place.

I would also try scanning a single transponder just to see what happens if you can figure out how to do that yourself just to be sure it's a signal problem, maybe try that first.

This would grab some ITV channels, the values below are typical of what you would need to scan a single frequency (transponder).

Frequency 11344.00

Horizontal (H)

Modulation : 8PSK

Symbol Rate 27500

inner Fec (2/3)

I can't advice how to do that on you box, you'll have to figure it out yourself

I agree with Glaceon, wrong LNB seems most likely explanation

You should give make and model of box. Freeview is the name of the UK terrestial service. As you have RTE then its a combo box and all the channel moves are now complete so more than likely dish has moved.

In that case, I'd say that the transponder list on the box is out of date, these boxes are quite old so it might take some manual updating unless someone else knows a way.

What firmware revision is on it? The 3.8 or 4.0 firmware supports the Freesat EPG (named SatFree as it's not official). It still needs a manual rescan every now and then but much less tedious than other boxes.

Agree with all the above,many changes in the world of satellite reception.

I'm finding the older freesat boxes are not picking up some channels,like cnn, it's not the dish in my case,as I just swap the sky HD box for the freesat one. I've tried software download with no success,it's a pity because some freesat boxes have 12v dc inputs, useful during power outages.

Im also getting notifications telling me that as Sky are hiking prices in April by 6.2%,people should keep the dish,cancel Sky and simply replace the box with freesat.

Do folk realise that if they have a Sky email address,they will lose that as happened recently with Virgin giving people 30 days before they take their email address away.?