r_keates
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- Jan 29, 2007
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- Age
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- My Satellite Setup
- 58cm dish, universal LNB, Comag SL35 FTA receiver
- My Location
- Dartford, Kent
Hi all,
first post here, and first satellite, so please be gentle with me!
Bought a FTA digi satellite kit the other day, comprising a 58cm dish, universal LNB, Comag SL35 reciever, 20m of cable and a satellite "beeper".
Been installing this today. Very bad freeview reception in this area, hence the decision to go with FTA satellite. Anyhow, lots of sky digital dishes around to use as basic reference points as to where I should be pointing the dish.
Mounted the dish in approximately the right position, hooked up the sat finder/bleeper and fired up the receiver... it bleeped away, and so I adjusted the horizontal and vertical angles until I had the highest pitch and loudest bleep I could find, as per the instructions.
Disconnected the bleeper and hooked the coax directly back into the LNB, happy that the dish was in the right place.
However, the signal strength meter and quality meter on the reciever had not changed at all... faulty box perhaps, I thought...
So, went to my friend's house up the road who has Sky, and hooked the box onto his coax line... and it downloaded all the channels no problem with around an 80% signal... so I know the box is good.
I've connected the bleeper unit to the box end of the coax, and found it's getting no signal at all from the satellite / LNB.
Also measured and i've got a 6 volt drop between the box and the dish (it's only around 12 metres of cable), so I reterminated the F Plugs, but it's still exactly the same.
The coax runs through a galvanised steel ventilation duct for about 4 metres of its length, don't know whether this could cause problems?
So now i'm stuck completely... I know the box is good when hooked into someone else's sky dish... I believe the LNB is fine, as the sat finder was beeping away higher and lower as I moved the dish around...
The only thing I can think of is a cable problem... i've tested it with a meter and there's no short on it, so i'm stuffed.
Any of you guys got any suggestions of what I can try? Only other thing I can think of is buying some CT100 or 125 cable and trying that instead, just don't really want to spend out on that to find there's no difference!
Thanks very much in advance for your time,
Rob :-worship
first post here, and first satellite, so please be gentle with me!
Bought a FTA digi satellite kit the other day, comprising a 58cm dish, universal LNB, Comag SL35 reciever, 20m of cable and a satellite "beeper".
Been installing this today. Very bad freeview reception in this area, hence the decision to go with FTA satellite. Anyhow, lots of sky digital dishes around to use as basic reference points as to where I should be pointing the dish.
Mounted the dish in approximately the right position, hooked up the sat finder/bleeper and fired up the receiver... it bleeped away, and so I adjusted the horizontal and vertical angles until I had the highest pitch and loudest bleep I could find, as per the instructions.
Disconnected the bleeper and hooked the coax directly back into the LNB, happy that the dish was in the right place.
However, the signal strength meter and quality meter on the reciever had not changed at all... faulty box perhaps, I thought...
So, went to my friend's house up the road who has Sky, and hooked the box onto his coax line... and it downloaded all the channels no problem with around an 80% signal... so I know the box is good.
I've connected the bleeper unit to the box end of the coax, and found it's getting no signal at all from the satellite / LNB.
Also measured and i've got a 6 volt drop between the box and the dish (it's only around 12 metres of cable), so I reterminated the F Plugs, but it's still exactly the same.
The coax runs through a galvanised steel ventilation duct for about 4 metres of its length, don't know whether this could cause problems?
So now i'm stuck completely... I know the box is good when hooked into someone else's sky dish... I believe the LNB is fine, as the sat finder was beeping away higher and lower as I moved the dish around...
The only thing I can think of is a cable problem... i've tested it with a meter and there's no short on it, so i'm stuffed.
Any of you guys got any suggestions of what I can try? Only other thing I can think of is buying some CT100 or 125 cable and trying that instead, just don't really want to spend out on that to find there's no difference!
Thanks very much in advance for your time,
Rob :-worship