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<blockquote data-quote="LivingOutsideTheAsylum" data-source="post: 828593" data-attributes="member: 393456"><p>Hello there.</p><p></p><p>I just got a satellite TV receiving system from my wife as an early Christmas pressie - the antenna is a Self-Sat H30D single LNB unit, and for a box I got the Telestar Digibit R1 Sat>IP unit that connects to my home network.</p><p></p><p>I'm brand new to all this Satellite stuff, and have spent the last few days on a VERY steep learning curve.</p><p></p><p>I bolted the antenna (I feel odd calling it a dish cos it's flat, and very un-dish like, maybe I should call it a baking tray!), onto the flower boxes on our balcony and aligned it by using a nice google maps helper page I found on the internet, to (I believe) one of the Astra 28 satellites at roughly 153°/29°.</p><p></p><p>When I do a scan on my box, I can only ever get BskyB, and ALL the channels are BBC and that's it. I'm very happy to get those channels, but I'd also really love to be able to get ITV and Chan4 as well.</p><p></p><p>I've moved the baking tray around a bit, side to side, and up and down, but still only get these BBC channels.</p><p></p><p>I might go out on monday and see if I can buy a reasonably priced "sat finder", as my smartphone and even the compass that came with the baking tray go completely bonkers and I can not get a reliable direction reading in my apartment at all. There are 2 stinking great cellphone towers on top of the apartments near us about 50 metres away, maybe they are doing that, I don't know, but it's certainly unnerving!</p><p></p><p>Plus whenever I see pictures of these baking tray antennas, they always seem to be mounted on a slight angle, never flat as I have mine, as you can see here -</p><p></p><p>i-do-it.co.kr/download/PDF/01_Home_Antenna/7_H30D/Specification/H30D_H30D2_H30D4_Spec_sheet.pdf</p><p></p><p>Can anyone tell me what that angle is for, and how I come about calculating it?</p><p></p><p>Any help and advice is greatly appreciated.</p><p></p><p>Thanks <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" />.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LivingOutsideTheAsylum, post: 828593, member: 393456"] Hello there. I just got a satellite TV receiving system from my wife as an early Christmas pressie - the antenna is a Self-Sat H30D single LNB unit, and for a box I got the Telestar Digibit R1 Sat>IP unit that connects to my home network. I'm brand new to all this Satellite stuff, and have spent the last few days on a VERY steep learning curve. I bolted the antenna (I feel odd calling it a dish cos it's flat, and very un-dish like, maybe I should call it a baking tray!), onto the flower boxes on our balcony and aligned it by using a nice google maps helper page I found on the internet, to (I believe) one of the Astra 28 satellites at roughly 153°/29°. When I do a scan on my box, I can only ever get BskyB, and ALL the channels are BBC and that's it. I'm very happy to get those channels, but I'd also really love to be able to get ITV and Chan4 as well. I've moved the baking tray around a bit, side to side, and up and down, but still only get these BBC channels. I might go out on monday and see if I can buy a reasonably priced "sat finder", as my smartphone and even the compass that came with the baking tray go completely bonkers and I can not get a reliable direction reading in my apartment at all. There are 2 stinking great cellphone towers on top of the apartments near us about 50 metres away, maybe they are doing that, I don't know, but it's certainly unnerving! Plus whenever I see pictures of these baking tray antennas, they always seem to be mounted on a slight angle, never flat as I have mine, as you can see here - i-do-it.co.kr/download/PDF/01_Home_Antenna/7_H30D/Specification/H30D_H30D2_H30D4_Spec_sheet.pdf Can anyone tell me what that angle is for, and how I come about calculating it? Any help and advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks :). [/QUOTE]
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