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| Thread ID: 138134 | 2014-10-10 03:24:00 | Sky rain fade? | Mike (15) | Press F1 |
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| 1386019 | 2014-10-10 09:11:00 | (It's a long time since I did anything with satellites.) I think a 600mm antenna is down to half power at about 1.5 deg off beam. That's at 12 GHz (and I'm not sure Sky uses 12 GHz) It's very difficult to align an antenna using the receiver in the box. The bandwidth is too high, so the signal will drop out altogether only a couple of degrees off beam. I think you need a "satellite finder", which latches onto a pilot transmission?? Narrowband = high gain = some signal even when 10 deg off beam?? Not sure. But I would not slacken off the clamps and move the dish unless carefully marking where it started off. (both up/down and side/side) |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1386020 | 2014-10-10 12:32:00 | Even if the dish has been used with sky before it could still be the lnb setting in the sky decoder. Sky have two different lnb settings, 10750 & 11300. Your dad's dish may have a different lnb to yours so will need to change the settings in decoder. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1386021 | 2014-10-11 04:34:00 | as above, more than likely your freeveiw is set to different LNB frequency or polarization. if you go into the sky box menu, find the sat signal bars. if there is signal but no quality its as above or dish out of align. if no signal at all then lnb is dead. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1386022 | 2014-10-11 07:34:00 | if no signal at all then lnb is dead.no signal at all... Ah well, it was worth a try :) thanks all Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
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