Recent content by pat_mustard

Hi again. No 5.e

Il have to re check everything at the weekend then. I have a feeling its the elevation of the dish itself. The markings on the dish make no sense at all. They go from 30 - 60. I just pointed the dish at south and tilted the dish offset until I got a signal on the sat finder. When It went...

I got lock and sync on Badr 26e (which Im interested in getting), but when I scanned for channels I got BskyB channels! Obviously they are close together but Iv never encountered this before.

I can get 23.5......

Done: found 0 new services. It didn't lock on. Which other sat's could I try that you might expect to be able to get in NW England with a 80/90cm dish?

Do you mean automatic scan? My receiver doesnt seem to have blind scan??

Ok. I have no channels in my channel list for 5.0w so I used the sat find function which allows you to enter a satellite and a transponder, USALS then moved the dish to the correct location. Interestingly it doesn't lock on. Iv tried "5w____12690V 29950" which I found in a list of strongest...

Il try and measure the actual hight of the dish tonight after work. I suspect its over 8 meters though, which the site suggests.

Lazy on my part?? Ok anyway here is a screen shot from dishpointer Bare in mind thought that my dish is mounted to a 7' scaffold pole right at the top of the apex of the house. So its very high up. If I had got 5w when setting up, as opposed to 0.8w, would I still got the other...

Il ty th Rescan? I tried a manual transponder scan?? It just went through them all but didn't lock onto any of them so found no channels. Iv tried moving the dish manually left to right 1 step at a time also to no avail. Im worried that Iv got the angle of the dish itself wrong. I basically...

Hahaha. The tree has to stay! It belongs to the people at the back :-(. When you say: 'Also, try editing your "Thor" to 1.0W, not 0.8W', can you elaborate on this? I dont quite understand. Thanks a lot for the help!

As far as Im aware its 90cm, possibly 80cm....I was given it for free and never thought to measure it :eek:. Thinking about how big it looks Id say its more likely to be 90cm. I have only tried the satellites mentioned previously so far.....previously I was unable to get any satellites without...

Hi everyone. My first post on here. I have decided to dust off my dreambox clone. I have a motorized dish which I installed a couple of years ago. When I initially installed I didn't quite do it right. Consequently I had to manually find the locations for each of the satellites I wanted to...