What has happened with my satellite?

Abergh

Hello I'm new to this forum but I'm really desperate now.
Here's my problem: I have a Kaon K-220 receiver with a single LNB (Inverto IDLP-40SL+) and a 80 cm dish, pretty basic but I just use the dish for a few channels on Eutelsat W2 as I also have cable TV.

This just worked fine until I went on holiday and removed the dish just in case there would be bad weather. When I hooked up the dish again after 2 months it didn't work. The receiver says there is no signal and the signal strenght is 15 % no matter where I point the LNB. Quality is of course zero. I tried another LNB in case something was not ok with the original LNB, but no change. I also tried another cable but again there's no change.

I'm trying different settings in the set-up but it doesn't seem to help. I think the settings I should use are these as I have no need for controlling multiple LNBs:
C/Ku Switch - None
LNB freq. - Univ. LNB 1
C-LNB Freq. - na
LNB Power - On
22 Khz - na
0V/12V - 0V
Tone Burst - Off
DiSEqC - None

Any ideas anyone? I would really appreciate your help.

rolfw

Well if you've changed everything except the receiver, then it may be the receiver, do you have a friend with a dish that you can try the receiver on? May be worthwhile buying a cheap satellite meter, as it makes life a lot easier when searching for satellites.

Unless you had changed any of the settings in the receiver, there was really no reason to change them, may be worth doing a factory reset, as that always defaults to Ku-band settings.

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Irishmale

If you have a switch, lightning protector or a signal booster on the cable, i would try removing it. Had a similar problem with a broken signal booster.

Abergh

Well, I did a factory reset and maybe some strange settings then disappeared. It now works, but it seems more "sensitive". The slightest change in the direction of the dish and the signal is gone. It has to be pointed exactly towards the satellite as just a few fractions of a degree is enough for the signal to be lost.