Labgear Free-to-Air Satellite Kit Help

[peterscarlett]

Hi there
can anyone help me have instaled this dish and have 75% signal strength useing a satfinder as well but i have no signal quality at all and when i scan no chanles any help much appreciated new to this sky stuff am looking for free view chanels at moment .

 

[Analoguesat]

FreeView is completely different to Freesat - there are several channel differences.

You are looking for free to air channels - an important difference. Chances are you have aligned onto one of the nearby satellites.

 

[peterscarlett]

Thanks

i am looking for astra2 i think,is this the right one for free 2 air

Thanks for ur help
Peter

ps

does that mean u only get signal quality once on that sat

 

[Channel Hopper]

Try twisting the LNB on the dish by 45 degrees so the small marks are near the top of the feedhorn clamps.

 

[Robbo]

Yes, that is correct, you want Astra2/Eurobird1 28.2E/28.5E.

you are probably on the wrong sat, as AS suggests.

Try picking some of the adjacent. nearby sats, and flicking through their transponders, and seeing if you can get a reasonable signal quality as well. If you do, do a scan, see what channles you get.

 

[peterscarlett]

OK ill try ajusting it at the moment its at -11 but will have 2 wait till tomorrow now
thank you
Peter

 

[peterscarlett]

Just to confirm that when u get signal strength, that u only get singnal quality once u do a scan and not before

 

[satelliteman]

A quality reading should show a signal lock on a satellite without scanning for channels.

 

[Robbo]

The point is....

if you have good strength, but no/bad quality, it means that the transponder you are looking at, does not exist on that satellite.So, if it is valid transponer, the dish is probaly looking at the wrong sat.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Probably .....