freesat/free to air confusion

anthony07

Although........................

When I was up the ladder I aligned the dish to the strongest reading I could get on the LED sat meter that I got with the dish. My wife was indoors with the receiver tuned to the correct transponder, and told me the TV was showing the "No signal" screen. As it had got dark I re-connected the co-ax to the LNB and she said "The picture is on now" with 36% signal quality. Does the sat finder really degrade the quality that much? Also. should I realistically expect better signal quality than 36%? (on Euronews, I get higher readings on other transponders) I am now using a 65cm dish that I bought from Maplins

Thanks again

Tony