Richard Pitman
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- Jul 15, 2008
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- Age
- 70
- My Satellite Setup
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Panasonic Viera
Sky
Humax Foxsat HD
- My Location
- Worcester
I have a Sky box and mini dish. I've recently bought the Humax Foxsat HD freesat receiver, which works fine if plugged into the Sky dish, as expected.
I'm attempting to install a twin LNB, so that both receivers can be connected at once. Rather than mess up my working Sky dish, I purchased a universal twin LNB from Maplin, and installed this onto my old 60cm analogue Sky dish.
I've pointed this dish in the correct direction, 146 degrees, and get a strong signal on my satellite finder. However, neither the Sky box, or the Humax, from it's freesat tuning, can find any channels.
However, if I let the Humax box do a 'manual' tune, it finds well over a 100 stations, mainly German, with 100% signal strength and quality.
Obvious conclusion ( I thought ) is that I've somehow pointed the dish at the wrong satellite, although a swing either side doesn't find any other satellite, and this dish is aimed in same direction as the Sky minidish, which is mounted a few metres away on the same wall.
Easiest fix would be to get a twin LNB for the Sky minidish, but having gone to the hassle of cabling and fixing the larger dish, be nice to get that working?
Any suggestions ? (Bound to be something obvious..)
TIA,
Richard
I'm attempting to install a twin LNB, so that both receivers can be connected at once. Rather than mess up my working Sky dish, I purchased a universal twin LNB from Maplin, and installed this onto my old 60cm analogue Sky dish.
I've pointed this dish in the correct direction, 146 degrees, and get a strong signal on my satellite finder. However, neither the Sky box, or the Humax, from it's freesat tuning, can find any channels.
However, if I let the Humax box do a 'manual' tune, it finds well over a 100 stations, mainly German, with 100% signal strength and quality.
Obvious conclusion ( I thought ) is that I've somehow pointed the dish at the wrong satellite, although a swing either side doesn't find any other satellite, and this dish is aimed in same direction as the Sky minidish, which is mounted a few metres away on the same wall.
Easiest fix would be to get a twin LNB for the Sky minidish, but having gone to the hassle of cabling and fixing the larger dish, be nice to get that working?
Any suggestions ? (Bound to be something obvious..)
TIA,
Richard