Faulty or Insufficient LNB? | |
 |
| | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
| |
| |||||||
15-11-2007
| #1 | ||
| Member Join Date: 07-11-2007 Location: Lincolnshire
Posts: 4
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
My System: Fixed Sky system (for now) |
If an LNB is on its way out, or is faulty, would it affect the channels that you can receive? The reason I ask is I have an 80cm dish with a Grundig Universal LNB on it attached to a Humax F1-C1. I am pointing it at Astra 19.2 and am getting quite a few channels with good reception. My Signal Strength and Quality are around 60%. The dish and LNB are around four years old or more, so I was told. However, I seem to also be missing quite a few channels according to Lyngsat tables, especially all the German ones with seem to be on the later Astra satellites. Even when I try to manually tune, I get nothing, with a report of No Signal Found. All very confusing and annoying to say the least! Any suggestions? | ||
|  |
|
15-11-2007
| #2 | ||
| Sky Remote Breaker...  Join Date: 05-01-2006 Location: Near Pendle Hill, Lancashire
Posts: 4170
Thanks: 4
Thanked 36 Times in 36 Posts
My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! | EDITED: Never mind... 
__________________ I think your car looks funny too...... Proud owner of a satellites.co.uk cap & T-Shirt... Resident KIRBY Vacuum nut...  Last edited by 2cvbloke; 15-11-2007 at 08:03 PM. Reason: Stupid question... | ||
|
| |
|
15-11-2007
| #3 | ||
| Sky Remote Breaker... Join Date: 05-01-2006 Location: Near Pendle Hill, Lancashire
Posts: 4170
Thanks: 4
Thanked 36 Times in 36 Posts
My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! | Me again, has your dish moved at all over the past 4 years? The signal levels do seem a bit low for an 80cm. You could try nudging the dish until you get a higher strength (make sure you mark the position of the dish BEFORE you try anything, just incase you lose the satellite, and of course be careful on the ladders!!!)... 
__________________ I think your car looks funny too...... Proud owner of a satellites.co.uk cap & T-Shirt... Resident KIRBY Vacuum nut... | ||
|
| |
|
15-11-2007
| #4 | |||
| Believe it when I see it Admin.  Join Date: 01-05-1999 Location: Southern England
Posts: 27242
Thanks: 33
Thanked 641 Times in 447 Posts
Blog Entries: 3 My System: Sky+, DB 7000s, Gemini 4.3 in flash, Var on USB stick. Transparent 80cm Dish, Moteck SG2100 DiseqC motor, lots of legacy gear. Meters: Satlook Digital NIT, Unaohm EP313, Swires Annie 204 Spectrum, Rover ST-4 Spectrum. | The LNB may be an old enhanced model, these only receive low band. Check out to see if you can receive any channels over 11,700 Mhz. I am making an assumption from your post that this is the first time you have connected to this dish.
__________________ | |||
| |
|
26-11-2007
| #5 | ||
| Member Join Date: 07-11-2007 Location: Lincolnshire
Posts: 4
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
My System: Fixed Sky system (for now) | Once again you answered my problem bob on! Changed the LNB to a new Monoblock model and everything works fine now - all the channels that are there are now being received :-) Thanks everyone! | ||
|
| |
|
26-11-2007
| #6 | |||
| Site administrator  Join Date: 26-07-2003 Location: Scottish Borders
Posts: 14356
Thanks: 6
Thanked 479 Times in 375 Posts
My System: Sky UK. FTA analogue & digital satellite from 5 fixed dishes (5E/7E/9E/13E/16E /19E/23E/28E) Pace MSS100, Echostar IP3000VA, Technomate TM-1000D, Dreambox 7020S  The last noble sat warrior to fly the olden flag of Analogue | Good stuff well done.
__________________ | |||
|
| |
Linear Mode
