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Problem Receiving British Broadcasts In Paris, France Konig SDFTA11
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<blockquote data-quote="internationalviewer" data-source="post: 820940" data-attributes="member: 391193"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">I succeeded today in making the receiver work, by doing the following. In the "Antenna Setup" section of the "Installation" menu, I changed the DiSEqc 1.0 settings to give the best reception results for each of the three satellites I originally selected when I bought the receiver, which appeared as:</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"2. Hotbird 2, 6, 7A, 8 E 13.0"</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"6. Astra 1E, 1F, 1G, 1H E 19.2"</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"15. Astra 2A - 2B - 2D E 28.2".</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The best settings</span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">in terms of signal intensity (I) and quanity (Q) turned out to be as follows:</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">DiSEqc 1.0 port 1: <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"15. Astra 2A - 2B - 2D E 28.2" I = 90%, Q = 74%</span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">DiSEqc 1.0 port 2: <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"2. Hotbird 2, 6, 7A, 8 E 13.0" I = 45%, Q = 5% (despite these low values, reception is perfectly OK)</span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">DiSEqc 1.0 port 3: <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"6. Astra 1E, 1F, 1G, 1H E 19.2" I = 90%, Q = 73%.</span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Not believing this would make any difference, I selected <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"6. Astra 1E, 1F, 1G, 1H E 19.2" and requested a blind scan. To my surprise, it found all the UK channels broadcast from Astra 28.2° E, instead of the channels broadcast by <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Astra 19.2°E which one would have expected.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">So by chance, and certainly not helped by your instruction book which is of appallingly low quality, I now have what I wanted. I have renamed the satellites selected within the receiver as follows:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"2. Hotbird 2, 6, 7A, 8 E 13.0" renamed to "Astra 19.2 E"</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"6. Astra 1E, 1F, 1G, 1H E 19.2" renamed to "Astra 28.2 E"</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"15. Astra 2A - 2B - 2D E 28.2" renamed to "Hotbird 13 E"</span></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">König clearly need professional help to re-write their instruction book to bring it up to at least a minimum acceptable standard.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="internationalviewer, post: 820940, member: 391193"] [font="Arial"][size="2"]I succeeded today in making the receiver work, by doing the following. In the "Antenna Setup" section of the "Installation" menu, I changed the DiSEqc 1.0 settings to give the best reception results for each of the three satellites I originally selected when I bought the receiver, which appeared as:[/size][/font] [font="Arial"][size="2"]"2. Hotbird 2, 6, 7A, 8 E 13.0"[/size][/font] [font="Arial"][size="2"]"6. Astra 1E, 1F, 1G, 1H E 19.2"[/size][/font] [font="Arial"][size="2"]"15. Astra 2A - 2B - 2D E 28.2".[/size][/font] [font="Arial"][size="2"]The best settings[/size][/font] [font="Arial"][size="2"]in terms of signal intensity (I) and quanity (Q) turned out to be as follows:[/size][/font] [font="Arial"][size="2"]DiSEqc 1.0 port 1: [font="Arial"][size="2"]"15. Astra 2A - 2B - 2D E 28.2" I = 90%, Q = 74%[/size][/font][/size][/font] [font="Arial"][size="2"]DiSEqc 1.0 port 2: [font="Arial"][size="2"]"2. Hotbird 2, 6, 7A, 8 E 13.0" I = 45%, Q = 5% (despite these low values, reception is perfectly OK)[/size][/font][/size][/font] [font="Arial"][size="2"]DiSEqc 1.0 port 3: [font="Arial"][size="2"]"6. Astra 1E, 1F, 1G, 1H E 19.2" I = 90%, Q = 73%.[/size][/font][/size][/font] [font="Arial"][size="2"]Not believing this would make any difference, I selected [font="Arial"][size="2"]"6. Astra 1E, 1F, 1G, 1H E 19.2" and requested a blind scan. To my surprise, it found all the UK channels broadcast from Astra 28.2° E, instead of the channels broadcast by [font="Arial"][size="2"]Astra 19.2°E which one would have expected.[/size][/font][/size][/font][/size][/font] [font="Arial"][size="2"][font="Arial"][size="2"][font="Arial"][size="2"]So by chance, and certainly not helped by your instruction book which is of appallingly low quality, I now have what I wanted. I have renamed the satellites selected within the receiver as follows:[/size][/font][/size][/font][/size][/font] [font="Arial"][size="2"][font="Arial"][size="2"]"2. Hotbird 2, 6, 7A, 8 E 13.0" renamed to "Astra 19.2 E"[/size][/font][/size][/font] [font="Arial"][size="2"][font="Arial"][size="2"]"6. Astra 1E, 1F, 1G, 1H E 19.2" renamed to "Astra 28.2 E"[/size][/font][/size][/font] [font="Arial"][size="2"][font="Arial"][size="2"]"15. Astra 2A - 2B - 2D E 28.2" renamed to "Hotbird 13 E"[/size][/font][/size][/font] [font="Arial"][size="2"] [/size][/font] [font="Arial"][size="2"]König clearly need professional help to re-write their instruction book to bring it up to at least a minimum acceptable standard.[/size][/font] [/QUOTE]
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