Help needed to align the dish slightly off Astra toward HotBird for setanta

[luke_rooney18]

Hello I am new so need some help

I have set up my own 60cm dish and lnb and managed to get sky tv.

1- Signal Strenght is 100%
2- Signal Qualty 80%

All sky channels work fine sign up to setanta sports and the picture is crappy its unwatchable.

I been told i need to do something do my dish like move it.

Can some one please tell me where to move it to? do i need to change the elevation? or just the azimuth?

Please help?

 

[satelliteman]

Hi, you must of watched too much watchdog, lol re: setanta problem.

Best way to put it in simple terms: With this size dish, from earth 28.2e & 28.5e will be seen as the same location due to the large beamwidth of your dish.

 

[Analoguesat]

What do you mean the picture is "crappy"?? Some of the pictures Ive seen on Setanta leave a lot to be desired at the best of times. Or is it the picture breaks up into "legovision" every time it rains?

 

[satelliteman]

In addition, Hotbird is also in the opposite direction to 28.2e

 

[luke_rooney18]

Its crappy lego liek squares make it un watchable so you are saying itheis no point in moving the dish? can a satelite man do it? chake it out? but they cost alot of money

 

[Robbo]

The dish could just need tweaking a little?

You could try ringing a satellite man up and see how much they charge.

 

[luke_rooney18]

I think it does too? is their any satelite men on here who would come to wollaston for a quickie job?

 

[luke_rooney18]

In wellingborough

 

[Analoguesat]

You may need just to nudge it a little to the east (only a tiny amount) - there are 5 different satellites with 10 different transmission footprints, and if the dish is slightly misaligned you sometimes find the picture is poor on some channels. Also make sure the "skew" (rotation) on the lnb is set correctly - the screw fixing on the lnb needs to be at about "7 o'clock" as you face the dish

 

[luke_rooney18]

The LBN is setup fine i made sure of that. but i will try moving it jsut a nudge! if not success satelite guy it would have to be

 

[luke_rooney18]

I will have a go tomorrow. Any more ideas, all my Dish LBN and cable are less than 2 months old.

 

[satelliteman]

As mentioned by A/S skew is also important and may need adjustment especially on this Tp as there is another transponder on the same frequency on the opposite polar.

 

[rolfw]

The LBN is setup fine i made sure of that.

How do you know that and how did you check it?

 

[luke_rooney18]

OK RESULT

I realign my dish again and used the sat meter.

But now i have moved the dish, and now i can view setants fine picture and it all works fine

Thanks for the help!

 

[guest]

Well done!

Not difficult, is it? Tell your friends ..................