Which satellite have I connected to?

[nariman1977]

Hi

please help me as I am a bt confused!

I have just put up a static Ex-sky digital dish to connect to Hotbird 13E.

I followed the guidance from this site, which is very helpfull and used a sat meter to fine tune the satellite to what I thought to be 13E.

According to dishpointer, from my location, Frome in Somerset, the elevation and azimut fo 13E are: 29.6 and 160.7

The data for 19.2E astra are: 27.9 elevation and 153 azimut.

So as you can see they are a bit close to each other!

When I used the sat meter, I had to slowly move the dish to left or right to get the best signal and then again up and down. The only thing I couldn't do was to turn the lnb as it is fixed! it has a screw at the buttom with 4 or 5 clicky points it can turn to. So I turned it to the best one that gave me the strongest signal/

Then I came in and using my PaCE DS810XE box, used a exshaustive channel scan to find the channels. In the PACE box, I have selected the universal lnb and a single dish pointed to 13E. I then searched the channels, but none of the channels I was expecting to see from 13E are there! mainly french, dutch and austrian!

So I thought maybe I have picked up 19.2E by mistake?

Some of the channels I have picked up are:
1) Bloomberg, BL carrier, Needs mediguard Nagra, 11157Mhz, V, 22000 5/6

2) A LA Carte, CSAT, 12015, ,27500, 3/4
3) Amore TV, Beta Digital, 12265 V 27500 3/4
4) Astra HD+, Beta digital, 11918 H 27500


Any ideas as what satellite I have picked up?

Cheers

 

[wod]

it does sounds like 19east that you have aligned the dish to

just move the dish to the right a little bit and you should pickup hotbird now you know where astra 1 19e is

 

[nariman1977]

Alright! I though it sounded like 19E. I have cross checked another channel and it seems it IS 19E I am aligned to!

Problem is that they are so close, I don't know how to make sure I get the right satellite!

I am picking up a motorised 80CM dish this week. So hopefully that would maybe make it a bit easier. Only problem PACE doesn't support USAL! only Dseqc 1.2!

PACE is good as it is cheap and HD. Nearest cheap HD with USAL is gonna cost £150!

 

[satelliteman]

13e - Try 10.853 Horz, there are a hand full on fta channels on this transponder.

Alignment from behind the dish whilst on 19e, move right a fraction and up a fraction, small movements. Try the Tp above and see. job done

SM

 

[nariman1977]

Hi

Thanks for the pointer. Moved the dish to the right from behind, and the sat meter suddenly picked up another sat. Aligned to the strongest signal and tested. I now have 13E! Yeppeee!

 

[satelliteman]

Good going

 

[harrowwoman]

You can get some great movies on MBC One & MBC Action, all in English with subtitles in Arabic
Enjoy

 

[satelliteman]

You can get some great movies on MBC One & MBC Action, all in English with subtitles in Arabic
Enjoy

eerrr... not on 13e you won't, although cracking movies