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<blockquote data-quote="Richard Pitman" data-source="post: 533491" data-attributes="member: 295614"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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. </p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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?</p><p></p><p>Any suggestions ? (Bound to be something obvious..)</p><p></p><p>TIA,</p><p></p><p>Richard</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard Pitman, post: 533491, member: 295614"] 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 [/QUOTE]
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