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<blockquote data-quote="Crisbe" data-source="post: 635765" data-attributes="member: 327196"><p>If the old sky dish has been up there a long time it may be aligned to 19.2E which is where sky was before it moved to the Astra satellites at 28.2E. If you used the alignment of the old dish as a guide to where to point the new dish you could be about 9 degrees too far West with the dish. There are a lot of satellites up there that will give you a signal strength reading, but unless you are on the right one with the correct data stream the digibox won't give you much. Do a check with a compass to see if you are pointing the dish towards 28.2 East ( Keep the compass well clear of the metalwork of the dish etc. just get a rough idea of whether or not you are aiming at the right area of the sky. If you are it may be that you need to move the dish a tiny amount to one side or the other or up or down on elevation slightly to improve the signal quality. The sky box has a display in the menu that will give you a horizontal bar read out of both signal strength and signal quality at the same time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crisbe, post: 635765, member: 327196"] If the old sky dish has been up there a long time it may be aligned to 19.2E which is where sky was before it moved to the Astra satellites at 28.2E. If you used the alignment of the old dish as a guide to where to point the new dish you could be about 9 degrees too far West with the dish. There are a lot of satellites up there that will give you a signal strength reading, but unless you are on the right one with the correct data stream the digibox won't give you much. Do a check with a compass to see if you are pointing the dish towards 28.2 East ( Keep the compass well clear of the metalwork of the dish etc. just get a rough idea of whether or not you are aiming at the right area of the sky. If you are it may be that you need to move the dish a tiny amount to one side or the other or up or down on elevation slightly to improve the signal quality. The sky box has a display in the menu that will give you a horizontal bar read out of both signal strength and signal quality at the same time. [/QUOTE]
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