Well after close to 4 hours of sweating and swearing I finally got a crystal clear broadcast from my DB500S
I live in a small flat in London (no dishes allowed) so I bought a camping dish from ebay, the smallest I could find. and hooked it up to my brand new untouched DB.
Can only see a tiny portion of the sky from my flat and as luck would have it I stumbled across Hispasat 30W. I thought there must be something wrong with my equipment at first since the SNR was always showing 60%.
The final SNR was 85% with no loss. I'm a complete satellite & DB noob but I managed to get a scan of the channels, hundreds of them!! although most are scrambled.
Anyway I couldn't have done it withought reading a lot of threads from these boards so thank you all!
Finally a quick question: I have a satellite finder meter (didn't use it in the end) do I have to specify a satellite/ transponder on the DB for the meter to detect a signal?
I live in a small flat in London (no dishes allowed) so I bought a camping dish from ebay, the smallest I could find. and hooked it up to my brand new untouched DB.
Can only see a tiny portion of the sky from my flat and as luck would have it I stumbled across Hispasat 30W. I thought there must be something wrong with my equipment at first since the SNR was always showing 60%.
The final SNR was 85% with no loss. I'm a complete satellite & DB noob but I managed to get a scan of the channels, hundreds of them!! although most are scrambled.
Anyway I couldn't have done it withought reading a lot of threads from these boards so thank you all!
Finally a quick question: I have a satellite finder meter (didn't use it in the end) do I have to specify a satellite/ transponder on the DB for the meter to detect a signal?
