sayireand
Member
I live in Madrid and at present I have a Sky package from Ireland. On channels 101-104 we have some TV stations which are only part of our package and on channels 914,915 and 916 three radio stations which are free and available on all packages. These are all found on Astra 2D on 10.744H. I am working with a Pace 2500 (it's reputation is bad but it's a myth as I caaaan get all other channels all day), a 1.35 dish and a 0.7 LNB.
I have the signal in the morning no problem until about 13.00 (strength and quality on this particular frequency almost 60%, Locked OK, Network ID 0002, Transport Stream 07fb, ) but until I tweaked the LNB no signal for the rest of the day except some spitting in now and again. I moved the LNB a bit and am getting a more regular signal on 10744H during the day but with still a lot of picture break-up. The signal disappears in the evening.
Since the tweaking the LNB I have noticed that apart from the morning when the signal for all channels is really strong that the signals for the channels on 2A North (e.g. Nat Geo, Channel 999 Sky Sports News etc) begin to disappear when the Irish channels come in and vice versa. I might be getting Locked OK, Strength 55%, Quality 45/50% on the Irish TV channels when those channels on 2A north show 'not locking' with little quality.
It seems to me that there is a direct relation and that some of the stronger signals are swamping the signals on 2D. Also strangely the strongest ITV region is normally Grampian etc on 10.906V whereas when the Irsh channels (on Horizontal) come in, that region on Vertical disappears and London on 10832H comes in stronger.
The weather is not an issue as the same thing has happened on a fine day just as much as today with quite heavy cloud and rain.
Are there any LNB's which are designed for low band reception? Any ideas?
I have the signal in the morning no problem until about 13.00 (strength and quality on this particular frequency almost 60%, Locked OK, Network ID 0002, Transport Stream 07fb, ) but until I tweaked the LNB no signal for the rest of the day except some spitting in now and again. I moved the LNB a bit and am getting a more regular signal on 10744H during the day but with still a lot of picture break-up. The signal disappears in the evening.
Since the tweaking the LNB I have noticed that apart from the morning when the signal for all channels is really strong that the signals for the channels on 2A North (e.g. Nat Geo, Channel 999 Sky Sports News etc) begin to disappear when the Irish channels come in and vice versa. I might be getting Locked OK, Strength 55%, Quality 45/50% on the Irish TV channels when those channels on 2A north show 'not locking' with little quality.
It seems to me that there is a direct relation and that some of the stronger signals are swamping the signals on 2D. Also strangely the strongest ITV region is normally Grampian etc on 10.906V whereas when the Irsh channels (on Horizontal) come in, that region on Vertical disappears and London on 10832H comes in stronger.
The weather is not an issue as the same thing has happened on a fine day just as much as today with quite heavy cloud and rain.
Are there any LNB's which are designed for low band reception? Any ideas?