Saturn
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- Mar 13, 2009
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- 48
- My Satellite Setup
- Sony 40" LCD TV, Sky digibox, Topfield 5510PVR
- My Location
- Brentwood, Essex
Hello,
I am trying to receive Dutch TV on Astra 1L and Astra 1H in the UK.
We recently had a 60CM dish installed. This connects directly into a Topfield 5510 PVR. The engineer who installed dish did not have much experience of the pointing at Astra 1 - but showed me his satellite finder that was displaying 19.2 E and a good signal strength of approx. 80%.
There are a number of FTA channels on Astra 1L - one being BVN (H, 12,574 GHz, 22000). The Topfield was preinstalled with a number of Dutch Channels - one of which is BVN. This appears to be setup correctly?
However - even though the Topfield shows signal strength of 80% on the BVN channel - there is no signal quality. The strange things is that I am getting a reading of signal strength of 80% and a signal quality of approx. 80% on other encrypted Pay channels on Astra 1H. However, I am unable to watch these as they are encrypted and I do not have an activated view card. The screen is just black on these channels.
The other strange thing is that I am getting a good picture on the standard UK channels such as BBC, ITV etc. I did not think that these were broadcast on 19.2E?
This leads me to the conclusion that dish is not actually pointing at the right satellite. My wife is desperate to get Dutch TV.
Do you think that we should try to re-align the dish ourselves - until we get a picture on BVN?
Your help / advice would be very much appreciated.
I am trying to receive Dutch TV on Astra 1L and Astra 1H in the UK.
We recently had a 60CM dish installed. This connects directly into a Topfield 5510 PVR. The engineer who installed dish did not have much experience of the pointing at Astra 1 - but showed me his satellite finder that was displaying 19.2 E and a good signal strength of approx. 80%.
There are a number of FTA channels on Astra 1L - one being BVN (H, 12,574 GHz, 22000). The Topfield was preinstalled with a number of Dutch Channels - one of which is BVN. This appears to be setup correctly?
However - even though the Topfield shows signal strength of 80% on the BVN channel - there is no signal quality. The strange things is that I am getting a reading of signal strength of 80% and a signal quality of approx. 80% on other encrypted Pay channels on Astra 1H. However, I am unable to watch these as they are encrypted and I do not have an activated view card. The screen is just black on these channels.
The other strange thing is that I am getting a good picture on the standard UK channels such as BBC, ITV etc. I did not think that these were broadcast on 19.2E?
This leads me to the conclusion that dish is not actually pointing at the right satellite. My wife is desperate to get Dutch TV.
Do you think that we should try to re-align the dish ourselves - until we get a picture on BVN?
Your help / advice would be very much appreciated.