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Nice spot Rolf.
lloowen said:So I have a LNB that works, but will not give the correct frequency that my pace skybox needs. So what can I do about this?
Is there a sky box that is compatiable with my dish/lnb setup? Is there a reciever that can be adapted to what ever signal the dish picks up?
So if I want to watch the BBC channels do I have to have a sky box setup? Or is there another solution?
The previous owner of the dish used to tune in and watch many channels from all over europe. He must have had some kind of universal satellite reciever that would allow him to be able to jump from satelite to satelite.
Grateful for any help
The LNB will have worked fine for the previous owner, but I wouldn't mind betting that he used it back in the old analogue days, where most channels were on low band.
ralphmagno said:hello,
i was looking at this and what satellite are you trying to receive?
if you are trying to receive sky uk or the free view like bbc unless you have a defective lnb or a verry old one all lnb's in europe are compatible with every satellite system.
they all have 2 local osc. andy all switch with 14 v and 18 v and they all use the 22 khz upper band and lower band.
if your box is defective it could cause the problem.
take your box to a friend and see if it is working there.
if it works ok then the line could be verry old of the lnb could be bad.
the lnb costs about 5 euro now a days.
hope this helps
ralph
lloowen said:I you are right on that one. Very probably was used in the analogue days.
Here's a couple of photos of the LNB that worked on the old metal 1.8m dish, that gave a 10% signal, but was watchable..
picasaweb.google.co.uk/lloowen/SatelliteLNB?authkey=Gv1sRgCP7hn6qJn7D50gE&feat=directlink
I tried to attach it to the 2m fiberglass dish, but no lock. Someone once suggested that I cut off the front off the lnb and remove the trumpet shape matal bit.
lloowen said:Someone suggested that I could change the default transpoder to 12.207 V for the analogue lnb.
Would this work?
Thanks
All changing the default transponder does is change which transponder the receiver downloads the TV guide from. The "default" default transponder is 11778V which is a North beam frequency and should be strong in your area. On the other hand 12207V (Sky News) is on the South beam. BTW, the background music for the TV guide comes from 11778V so if you can hear that you are receiving that transponder fine. Changing the default transponder will not have any effect what so ever over the signal quality on the various other transponders which carry the channels themselves.lloowen said:Now I'm only getting at best 25% signal strength with the digital lnb compared to 60% signal strength with the analogue lnb.
Someone suggested that I could change the default transpoder to 12.207 V for the analogue lnb.
Would this work?
Thanks
lloowen said:Hello
The signal quality figures I quoted are readings from my satellite finder. (Horizon HDSM USB Digital Satellite Meter) Good quality. I trust the figures I'm getting from this device.
Sorry I didn't make it clearer where my signal quality figures where from.
You are still missing what everyone has been telling you all along. Your old LNB was a standard, not a universal. That means when the receiver puts on the 22khz tone to get the LNB into high band it just sits there in low band, i.e. looking at the wrong frequency. So when the level says 60% that is for some part of the spectrum that is completely non related with the default transponder, which is why the box wouldn't fire up with that LNB even though you were getting some magnificent signal level.lloowen said:Still my digital lnb works fine even though the signal quality is lower (25%) than what the analog lnb is producing (~60%).