Recent content by JAYEDIN

Rolf, You were right , OTV is a channel on 1 west. At least now I know where the dish is pointing to. The reason I believed I was pointing at 13 east is that in using the Manhatten plaza st500 - to align the dish using the following steps :- 1) In the channel scan I selected Hotbird 13 E...

I have been avidly reading this forum as I want to buy a Sat PC card to allow me to record FTA Sky channel i.e. a PVR setup. So what I was planning to do is connect the LNB out socket from the Digibox to the PC sat card. My choice is between the Technisat SKYSTAR 2 Rev 2.6D (42£) but I am put...

Rolf, There were about 2 freeview ones that I saw as I clicked through the channels - all the others were scrambled. There were about approx 288 channels identified by the Auto All channel scan. Most of the channels show a low signal strength on the screen ( 30-50) which seems quite poor. I...

I can get OTV Ok - I cannot get any of the other FTA ones at all. I have skewed the LNB and tried several skews to get the optimum. I am going to have another go with getting the pole exactly vertical with a borrowed post level. Thanks

I have been trying to set up my fixed dish for 'Hotbird 13 East' and the best signal strength I can get is 74%. Although I can get some of the channels , How can I tweak the dish for a better signal? i.e. The pole is as vertical as I can get it on a harled wall. My equipment: 1 meter dish...

Jacko , Thanks for your ideas. Your method of using a 12v supply to drive the motor independently of the Receiver is very interesting approach. Part of my problems is that I am battling to use the Receiver to drive the Positioner - still thats another ongoing saga with the manufacturer to...

Hello jacko, I took the plastic collar off and there was a bolt with an allen key head. I had a go at unscrewing it but it turned out to be extremely difficult that I gave up half way through. So I went back to driving it from the Receiver. I tried using a compass to align the pole mounting...

altis, Thanks for your suggestion. I had a look today but the there is no large plastic collar apart from a black ring with a pointer and I only remember seeing 1 fixing bolt! - I'll double check tommorrow. Would I be correct in assuming that the pointer indicates the azimuth angle of the dish...

I had a look at the mount and I cannot see any sort of pin that one could take out. Question: Will one have to tke off the Motor housing ( plastic) to get at this pin?? Also I have tried searching the web for technical details on the Silent Gold 99 hardware without sucess. Does anyone know...

I am having major problems installing my motorised dish system with the following Hw :- -1 metre dish -Silent Gold 99 ( I think by Jaegar) with an H-H mount. On the actual motor it says 36v DC, Reed sensor , Adj E/W limits. Initially I want to be able to move the actuator manually rather...

At the south facing wall where I want to fix my dish there is a telephone wire running approximate 10ft distance in front of the dish from a pole to my neighbour's house. Will this impact on satellite reception ?? Thanks

Teena, I would be interested to know where you got the Satfinder for £6. I need one to set up a motorised dish and they all seem to cost > £30.

As there is'nt many analog satellite channels is there any advantage in going for the 5500DAPCI combined analog&digital as against the 5500CIP Plus which also has a 36v positioner but is about 30£ cheaper?

I checked the existing LNB and it is a :- ALPS BSNE8-101A 10.7-12.0 GHz I havn't been able to find any data on it ( apart from a reference to a German site on Google) . So it may be safer just to get a LNB at the same time as getting a receiver.

I had a Motorised satellite installed approx 5 years ago and the last few years its been lying in the garage due to a house extension. I am now in the process of getting it rigged up and its fairly clear that I need to upgrade to a digital system. The system is a 36V motorised system with:- Pace...