I have two sky systems at my home in Alicante Spain. My first system consists of a 1.2 m offset dish connected to a Panasonic DSB20 receiver with Invercom 0.3 db LNB. This system will allow all stations to be received that are transmitted on the Astra North and South beams. The signal strength is good and I suffer little drop out, Channel 4 does drop out around 4.00 pm for around one hour in summer however.
My second sky system consists of a shared prime focus 2.4 m dish and this is connected to a Grundig 310/2 receiver with Invercom four way 0.3 db LNB. Other people sharing the dish have Panasonic DSB 30, DSB 20 and Grundig 3000 receivers.
This larger dish allows partial receipt of the Astra 2D signals. I say partial as we can receive all stations transmitted that are vertically polarised (V) but no stations that are horizontally polarised (H). The result is that we can get around 50 % of the UK transmitted channels, but can not receive BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, BBC News24, and most recently ITV news channel 525 which are transmitted on horizontally polarised channels only.
If I try and manually tune in any of the transponder numbers below, then I get a "no signal is being received display":-
10744, H 22000 5/6
10773, H 22000 5/6
10803, H 22000 5/6
10832, H 22000 5/6
10862, H 22000 5/6
10891, H 22000 5/6
10921, H 22000 5/6
Any of the vertically polarised transponders are received 24/7 and I suffer no drop out what so ever:-
10729, V 22000 5/6
10758, V 22000 5/6
10788, V 22000 5/6
10818, V 22000 5/6
10847, V 22000 5/6
10876, V 22000 5/6
10906, V 22000 5/6 (The main transponder to receive all ITV stations)
10936, V 22000 5/6
Why are there no Horizontal transponder signals being transmitted this far south, when all the vertical ones are, can anyone answer this or suggest a way that (H) transponder signals can be received.
Just to let you know that I am told that our 2.4 m dish and LNB are as good as you can get here in Spain and is working correctly. The installer stated that only (V) sgnals can be received in our area.
Is there any hardware equipment upgrade that might help
Regards: Terence
My second sky system consists of a shared prime focus 2.4 m dish and this is connected to a Grundig 310/2 receiver with Invercom four way 0.3 db LNB. Other people sharing the dish have Panasonic DSB 30, DSB 20 and Grundig 3000 receivers.
This larger dish allows partial receipt of the Astra 2D signals. I say partial as we can receive all stations transmitted that are vertically polarised (V) but no stations that are horizontally polarised (H). The result is that we can get around 50 % of the UK transmitted channels, but can not receive BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, BBC News24, and most recently ITV news channel 525 which are transmitted on horizontally polarised channels only.
If I try and manually tune in any of the transponder numbers below, then I get a "no signal is being received display":-
10744, H 22000 5/6
10773, H 22000 5/6
10803, H 22000 5/6
10832, H 22000 5/6
10862, H 22000 5/6
10891, H 22000 5/6
10921, H 22000 5/6
Any of the vertically polarised transponders are received 24/7 and I suffer no drop out what so ever:-
10729, V 22000 5/6
10758, V 22000 5/6
10788, V 22000 5/6
10818, V 22000 5/6
10847, V 22000 5/6
10876, V 22000 5/6
10906, V 22000 5/6 (The main transponder to receive all ITV stations)
10936, V 22000 5/6
Why are there no Horizontal transponder signals being transmitted this far south, when all the vertical ones are, can anyone answer this or suggest a way that (H) transponder signals can be received.
Just to let you know that I am told that our 2.4 m dish and LNB are as good as you can get here in Spain and is working correctly. The installer stated that only (V) sgnals can be received in our area.
Is there any hardware equipment upgrade that might help
Regards: Terence