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No signal strength bars in Grundig 310/2
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<blockquote data-quote="PoloMint" data-source="post: 30457" data-attributes="member: 175235"><p>If you download the software here <a href="http://www.smw.se/smwlink/smwlink.htm" target="_blank">http://www.smw.se/smwlink/smwlink.htm</a> and enter your longitude and latitude and the position of the satellite you want it will tell you the compass bearing, and the dish elevation you need.</p><p></p><p>This site <a href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/de.sullivan/#intro" target="_blank">http://homepage.ntlworld.com/de.sullivan/#intro</a> describes how to align a dish with only a digigbox meter, it’s meant for caravans and minidishes but the principals are the same and it should get you started.</p><p></p><p>If you make sure the elevation is accurate, the LNB skew is about what you think it should be and just pan the dish in what you think is the right direction (even just by looking at a neighbours dish) you should eventually get a signal, from that you can fine tune the position, elevation and LNB skew. The digibox is very slow to update the meter, it takes a couple of seconds or so, that means instead of panning the dish smoothly, move it a tiny bit (literally) wait a couple of seconds then move it again. If you do a quick pass you could well go past the satellite before the box has a chance to update.</p><p></p><p>Whatever software version the box is running it should still be able to find a signal, if the box has no LNB connected it might show a false signal strength, but with a dish/LNB connected and pointing at nothing you should get the ‘no signal’ message, but some digiboxes will indeed still show signal strength (but not quality), even when pointing at the ground.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: beat to it by Rolf again! <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> (but I don't think it took me 10mins to write that, hmm.... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite53" alt=":confused" title="Confused :confused" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused" /> )</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PoloMint, post: 30457, member: 175235"] If you download the software here [url]http://www.smw.se/smwlink/smwlink.htm[/url] and enter your longitude and latitude and the position of the satellite you want it will tell you the compass bearing, and the dish elevation you need. This site [url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/de.sullivan/#intro[/url] describes how to align a dish with only a digigbox meter, it’s meant for caravans and minidishes but the principals are the same and it should get you started. If you make sure the elevation is accurate, the LNB skew is about what you think it should be and just pan the dish in what you think is the right direction (even just by looking at a neighbours dish) you should eventually get a signal, from that you can fine tune the position, elevation and LNB skew. The digibox is very slow to update the meter, it takes a couple of seconds or so, that means instead of panning the dish smoothly, move it a tiny bit (literally) wait a couple of seconds then move it again. If you do a quick pass you could well go past the satellite before the box has a chance to update. Whatever software version the box is running it should still be able to find a signal, if the box has no LNB connected it might show a false signal strength, but with a dish/LNB connected and pointing at nothing you should get the ‘no signal’ message, but some digiboxes will indeed still show signal strength (but not quality), even when pointing at the ground. EDIT: beat to it by Rolf again! :) (but I don't think it took me 10mins to write that, hmm.... :confused: ) [/QUOTE]
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