Recent content by cjhancock

Thanks Robbo71. With children in the house, I'd prefer to remove some of the channels altogether. But if they're just going to come back on the next scan, it's going to be tedious so I was looking for a simple solution that would disregard EuroBird 1 altogether. Trouble is that channels that...

Thanks RolfW. I'm not sure if it's the same LNB model (I'm at work at the moment) but mine's certainly a Fortec Star single LNB. In my case, perhaps because I'm not in a fringe area, the solution was simple: set the receiver to some "normal" channel (I think I chose ITV1) twist the LNB one way...

Well, I had another go at fine tuning the dish alignment and LNB skew. The dish is pretty much in a vertical plane - the reading on the alignment scale is garbage. I could get a very strong signal on the Satellite Meter but no channel displayed - then I rotated the LNB and got a strong picture...

I set up my first satellite system only yesterday evening, so I haven't investigated it much yet (and I'm at work now). I seemed to have an EPG - are you saying that it wouldn't show me programmes much into the future? And if I add a new channel that's not in the presets, will I get EPG...

I'm lost...what is it that I can get through FreeSat that I can't get through any receiver picking up FTA channels from Astra 28.2E? (Apart from the HD channels if I've got a SD receiver)

Looking at neighbours' dishes, they all seem to be smaller and have the long axis of the ellipse horizontal whereas mine is vertical. No matter - I set the elevation to "pointing down a bit" as per Robbo71's advice, and set the azimuth by eye based on _www.dishpointer.com (am I allowed to...

Thanks Robbo71. I'll try this tonight if I get chance. I only unpacked the Satellite Kit at 5pm last night and spent the evening drilling and assembling - I haven't even turned the receiver on yet. So be on hand tomorrow for my next set of questions ;)

Robbo71 - thanks for the reply. I take your point about the cheap dish - I really only bought the kit for the fun of doing a DIY job. But I would have expected it to get me somewhere close to the right elevation. I'm a bit lost with your comment "set the elevation adjustment accurately by...

Sorry, hoppo1. I'm at work and don't have the info to hand. It's a 60cm elliptical dish. The dish backplate is offset along the long axis, so it needs to be mounted with the long axis vertical. As I said in the previous post the Elevation scale shows a range from 30 to 90, though I'm not...

I bought a cheap Fortec Star kit from Maplin. When I come to do the Elevation alignment, the markings show 30, 60 and 90. But I want to set it to 22.1 degrees for Astra from NE England - even if I could set the angle, this would be pointing too much downwards. The assembly looks right so...