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FTA Tuning Guide - Oct 2024

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  • #92
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,297 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Change to S2. See post #87 above for an example of the tuning details. But just in case your dish has moved and is receiving another satellite not 28 East, name a few of the foreign channels you are getting.



  • #93
    davidod1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭davidod1


    Thanks dxhound2005, back in business. There seems to be a number of the ITV channels missing. It says 'No Signal' for a number of them. They might be showing up somewhere further down in the 400+ channels though.

    Can you tell me, if I look at the Lyngsat page, where do I find the settings that the controller needs in order to get a lock on to the satellite. Currently, the settings that I have put in; are the settings that apply to the first channel group listed on the LyngSat page - a number of BBC channels. Is this coincidence, or is this the normal procedure?

    Post 87 settings are for BBC Wales, would these settings also allow the controller to get a lock on to the satellite, and allow the receiver to obtain a channel list?



  • #94
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,297 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Sorry, I should have looked up what that controller thing is before answering. It is a camper van installation, and you are probably the best expert on that equipment. In general terms, whatever satellite it is pointing the dish at, any receiver like the Amiko should be able to tune in the channels. A lot of the channels on 28 East are on the UK beam, which does not cover bits of France.

    https://www.lyngsat.com/maps/footprints/Astra-2E-UK.html



  • #95
    davidod1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭davidod1


    Thanks for the help dxhound2005 👍️



  • #96
    Lorddrakul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,970 ✭✭✭Lorddrakul


    I'm having some issues with my freesat set up.

    I got a new universal LNB and mount for an old sky dish. Everything is working fine, except CNN HD and the other news channels (Bloomberg HD), that come in on 11671H at 2300.

    I had been having issues with some of the higher range channels too, like Quest HD (12383H), but they are perfect now, and I'm generally getting decent signal strength on individual channels, such as BBC one London HD at 83% and ITV1 HD at 73%.

    But CNN HD just goes blocky and pixelated, with sounds wigging in and out for a second at a time.

    Receiver is an old Vu+ Duo, but works for everything else.



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  • #97
    swoofer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,879 ✭✭✭swoofer


    That box is around a good few years so not bad but if its just that frequency it may be tuner. What i would do is put on CNN then go to dish and tweak the lnb ie twist slightly and move in and out but if its a sky lnb then if I recall they sit correctly from the outset, just wiggle dish either side, by holding it and wait, you will need 2 people.

    I have a spare duo2.

    Those figures for bbc and itv are low, you should get 96- 100% and 88-96%. I have cnn at 85% on 68cm dish.

    Is it a zone 2 dish?

    Post edited by swoofer on


  • #98
    Tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Tony


    Yeah as swoofer says its most likely LNB skew of perhaps the dish alignment is out slightly. The CNN transponder is weaker than the others so it does tend to show up any dish issues.

    Owner: satellite.ie



  • #99
    Lorddrakul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,970 ✭✭✭Lorddrakul


    Cheers guys.

    TBH, I never really messed with the dish aiming after I gave up Sky. It always seemed to work well, so I left it.



  • #100
    Lorddrakul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,970 ✭✭✭Lorddrakul


    I played with this a bit today and the metrics are that BBC1 HD comes in at 83-85% SNR, with AGC at 95%.

    Quest HD comes in at 70% SNR and 95% AGC again. Still nothing at all on CNN HD. There seems to be a very arrow arc of signal, and that was the best I could get from it.

    I think the box is so ancient it just struggles bit.



  • #101
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,297 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Probably more to do with the dish being old than the box being old. And/or being Sky Zone 1? See question from @Swoofer asking is the dish Zone 2. In general terms a bigger dish will usually solve marginal signal problems like you are having with the CNN transponder.

    (Video from 2017).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPuhx4fbRXY


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  • #102
    Lorddrakul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,970 ✭✭✭Lorddrakul


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654570#Comment_123654570

    Yeah, I've definitely got a Zone 2 dish, as it is way bigger than 45cm top to bottom. That said, it is at least 21 years old and is showing some surface corrosion.

    There is a definite improvement in the overall quality of the main channels I watch, and the likes of the iTV channels that used to take a while to actually tune, appear faster and are better signal strength. So at this stage, for the amount of effort that would come next, I can live without CNN and Bloomberg.

    I'll just have to hear about my pension investments crashing from the Interwebs. 😉



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