Please can anyone help

[mark2101]

I tried to re-align dish to Hispasat today, couldn't find it and now cant find astra 19.2 either. My receiever is giving a signal stredth of over 70% but cant find what satellite it's picking up! ! Any suggestions?

 

[Mickha]

Hi mark2101,
check your receiver channels. if you've moved your dish to the general location of Astra1, 19.2E, then you could be on Hotbird 13E, which gives a strong signal, Eutelsat W2 16E, or if you've moved it too far 23.5E, check lyngsat.com for frequencies, tune in a few of the channels and see what you pick up.
Please post back with the results, as it could be interesting.
Best wishes
mickha

 

[mark2101]

Just picked 6 satellites to scan will post back when i've scanned to let you know if i found the one!

 

[mark2101]

Scanned 6 satellites to see which one i found and i picked up one channel from Eutelsat W2 16.E so went out and moved it slightly, but bracket went loose so put it back to rough angle got 75% signal, ran out did the bracket up and went in and it must have moved because then had 66% signal, so now need to scan again see what i've picked up. Annooying that my satellite receiver cant just tell me, have to select all the sats it could be and scan them all.

 

[Sir Bronking]

update your profile, it might help to answer queries?

 

[Mickha]

As D+ on 19.2E has gone you might be better off looking for hotbird 13E, depending on your equipment.

 

[mark2101]

Will put a post when I find out what satellite i've picked up, will need some advice because am going to try to find hispasat again at some time. Have to wait till later as my wife is watching Sky at the moment.

 

[mark2101]

Managed to find hotbird 13E, took me ages. Not very pleased with it so think i'm going to have another go at trying to pick up hispasat. If i get 60% signal strength on Hispasat will I be able to pick up and channels then fine tune it?

 

[rolfw]

Depends on the receiver, but normally that would be enough, remember that the skew of the LNB is totally reversed from Astra 28.2E when you get to Hispasat

 

[mark2101]

Tried again to find Hispasat but had a problem with the arm so fixed where I could and picked up Atlantec bird 3, but got 4 channels that just had lines and beeped, though would have atleast got the french channels 1 to 5. Thing is my bracket and arm are rubbish for the dish and wont let the dish be turn 90 degrees parell with the house, also there is a small bay window. Can someone tell me how far can you get a stand off bracket and what sort of price am I looking at? Brecause i've seen some brackets on dishes that the dish sits pretty far from the house.

 

[rolfw]

You can get an L bracket up to 30" and probably more, but favourite choice is the T&K bracket set, also great for later conversion to motorised. There are several mounts using T&K brackets in the pictures og members' setups.

 

[orbital2002km]

I re-aligned my setup yesterday and had a few minor problems - my dish is a prime focus and the culprit for my particular problem was the skew, once positioned correctly I managed to find all the sats I wanted.

Regards

Orb

 

[mark2101]

I re-aligned my setup yesterday and had a few minor problems - my dish is a prime focus and the culprit for my particular problem was the skew, once positioned correctly I managed to find all the sats I wanted.

Regards

Orb

The skew? Is that the arm with the LNB on the end?

 

[mark2101]

I think I have a problem though because Hispasat seems to far west for me to turn the dish, I think i may have to either raise it up above the facia board to get a claer sky or move it to back garden, problem is if I move it to back garden then cant get astra or hotbird if I want, but above the facia I could. Can I adjust the LNB at all? Wondered if it was my LNB messing the receiption up.

 

[rolfw]

If you cannot see the satellite, then LNB skew (rotation) is not going to produce the goods. Get yourself a pair of T&K brackets and put your dish above the gutter line, then you wiill get what you want.