anonimity
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- Jan 13, 2012
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- My Satellite Setup
- Vu+ Uno
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- London
Hi all,
I have a seemingly easy task. I want to realign my wall mounted sly dish from Hotbird 13E back to Astra 28.2E.
A photo of the dish is included.
I also bought a satfinder to help me do it.
What I have to do is turn the dish east to Astra and adjust the elevation a bit (lower it around 4 degrees according to dishpointer website). As you see in the photo there are two elevation screw marks (Hotbird, Astra) so I know more or less where to vertically place the dish. Same stands for the horizontal alignment by watching neighbours dishes.
So, I set my tuner (vu+ solo) to BBC1 (tried also other free channels) on Astra and slightly turn the dish towards Astra. There is no signal indication whatsoever. Of course when I turn it back to Hotbird signal peaks ok.
As you may imagine, after several tries I also manage to lose Hotbird signal.
Now, the satfinder doesn't beep anywhere which I find strange.
I am located in SE London and I start wondering whether the nice trees in front of the dish make my job hard. Have a look on the second pic to get an idea, I also mark the approximate satellite positions.
I know for a fact that there is Astra reception as I used to watch it on the past.
Therefore, any help and encouragement will be much appreciated.
I don't want to spend money on an installer again for such an easy task, as I did to switch from Astra to Hotbid.
I was expecting the satfinder indicator to beep often as it happens with all the tutorial videos I've watched but apparently it's not the case.
Do you think is a case of micro-tuning or I have to do something different due to the trees
My LNB skew is set at 3.
Thanks and sorry for the long post.
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I have a seemingly easy task. I want to realign my wall mounted sly dish from Hotbird 13E back to Astra 28.2E.
A photo of the dish is included.
I also bought a satfinder to help me do it.
What I have to do is turn the dish east to Astra and adjust the elevation a bit (lower it around 4 degrees according to dishpointer website). As you see in the photo there are two elevation screw marks (Hotbird, Astra) so I know more or less where to vertically place the dish. Same stands for the horizontal alignment by watching neighbours dishes.
So, I set my tuner (vu+ solo) to BBC1 (tried also other free channels) on Astra and slightly turn the dish towards Astra. There is no signal indication whatsoever. Of course when I turn it back to Hotbird signal peaks ok.
As you may imagine, after several tries I also manage to lose Hotbird signal.
Now, the satfinder doesn't beep anywhere which I find strange.
I am located in SE London and I start wondering whether the nice trees in front of the dish make my job hard. Have a look on the second pic to get an idea, I also mark the approximate satellite positions.
I know for a fact that there is Astra reception as I used to watch it on the past.
Therefore, any help and encouragement will be much appreciated.
I don't want to spend money on an installer again for such an easy task, as I did to switch from Astra to Hotbid.
I was expecting the satfinder indicator to beep often as it happens with all the tutorial videos I've watched but apparently it's not the case.
Do you think is a case of micro-tuning or I have to do something different due to the trees
My LNB skew is set at 3.
Thanks and sorry for the long post.
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