BLUEPLATINUM
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- My Satellite Setup
- ITSarria LTE Internet, 2 X SKY HD, Invacom C120 quad LNB, Raven 2.4m offset dish, TDT (Spanish freeview)
- My Location
- Maspalomas, Gran Canaria
I have just updated by LNB from a 0.5db Teléves single output one to an INVACOM 3.0db one with 4 independent outputs.
The original LNB was installed by the guy who put up the dish and was only ever meant to be temporary.
The receiver is a PACE MK 1 SKY+ box and the dish is 2.4m Channel Master.
I have no special equipment, so to install the INVACOM I just removed the old LNB and placed the new one in the holder. I then rotated it until signal stength and quality peaked on the default transponder.
It was early evening, when the BBC starts to pixelate before disapearing, so I then tuned into BBC1 and tweaked the rotation to minimise the pixelation.
I am very dissapointed because the new LNB does not seem to perform any better than the old one. I was expecting the the channels which "are there" but which pixelate or cause "there is a technical fault with this chennel" to come in.
Have I done something wrong other than not replace the receiver?
I wondered in the LNB needs to be earthed? It has an earthing point and the signal was much better when I was holding the LNB to adjust it before taking my hand off it!
Any advice gratefully received. Thanks.
You can see pictures of the setup before the new LNB fitting here
The original LNB was installed by the guy who put up the dish and was only ever meant to be temporary.
The receiver is a PACE MK 1 SKY+ box and the dish is 2.4m Channel Master.
I have no special equipment, so to install the INVACOM I just removed the old LNB and placed the new one in the holder. I then rotated it until signal stength and quality peaked on the default transponder.
It was early evening, when the BBC starts to pixelate before disapearing, so I then tuned into BBC1 and tweaked the rotation to minimise the pixelation.
I am very dissapointed because the new LNB does not seem to perform any better than the old one. I was expecting the the channels which "are there" but which pixelate or cause "there is a technical fault with this chennel" to come in.
Have I done something wrong other than not replace the receiver?
I wondered in the LNB needs to be earthed? It has an earthing point and the signal was much better when I was holding the LNB to adjust it before taking my hand off it!
Any advice gratefully received. Thanks.
You can see pictures of the setup before the new LNB fitting here