All posts by Les Nicol
Below are all of Les Nicol's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Keith Thatcher - There's a cluster of Satellites at 28.2 to 28.5 degrees south east the EPG's for "Freesat" and SKY with some SKY channels coming from. Eurobird 1 at 28.5 Most of the "Freesat" channels are beamed from Astra 2d but not all.It does seem that your current dish is the problem. To be homest I personally don't rate the SKY mesh type dishes I myself have a 64cm solid Triax TD series dish with a Technomate LNB the dish and LNB matching to a stadard 40mm collar. If your thinking of a new dish then I would recommend a 54cm slightly smaller which will be fine for your location in Essex. These are very well made and a doddle to confiqure with clearly marked scaling - note there are North and South scaling readings - You set on the South right hand side of the assembly looking from behind the dish frontwise. They are a little more price wise (not grossly) than SKY type but well worth it.
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P.S It may be that your currnt dish assembly is not locking up and has slight movement. I would also check all your wirng and connections. My signal strength reading 90% and PQ reading 100% but with the readings you have then I would have thought your receiver should heve been giving you better results than you have.
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Tony Murphy - No - A Satellite receiver would require a suitable DVB-C tuner module. Some FTA Free to air satellite receivers particularly Linux boxes have optional plug and play tuner models where you can have a options for a DVB-S DVB-C or DVB-T tuners in whatever permutation you want.
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Keith - You can check the receiver out if you can connect to a friend or relatives dish. If the receiver tunes OK in that scenario then your receiver is OK. Assuming your receiver is OK then that leaves the dish or a faulty LNB. You hace connected the dish inputs to the receiver left and right inputs and not connected to the centre I assume? You've emtered the menu and checked diagnosticts to determine signal and PQ on both tuners as it appwars on the TV screen?
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Keith - The last post from jb28 seems to ibclude further info I might have given you. Let's know how you get on in testing the receiver in another locus.
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Tony Murphy - Have you checked to see what cable service your being provided with? You should be able to get this perhaps by enquiring from a neighbour or the property management factor or company.
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Keith - One other thing you can try is check both cables at the reciver end with you meter - This should give you a reading on the scal and an audible signal on both. If not then your back to dish LNB or cabling.
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Bob Hunt - If you opt for a "Freesat" either standard - HD or HD single tuner PVR receiver then another cable is reuired from the Dish LNB. If you are thinking of a "Freesat" twin tuner HD receiver as a SKY Plus HD box then you require a twin cable from the dish LNB. There should be no compatibility issues at all as each of the four LNB connectioms are outputting individually.
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Tony Murphy - I would check first with the cable provider I'm sure they will offer advice on this. What you don't want is to buy equipment that can't provide you with the recording facility your looking for.
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Saturday 29 January 2011 9:14AM
Doreen - Yes but you may need a minor upgrade. If you have a SKY plus or plus HD receiver the dish LNB that's the the piece of equipent on the end of the dish boom arm will have two spare output connections and one of these will require a spare feed run to connect the Freesat receiver in the bedroon. If you don't have a plus or plus HD box in the lounge but rather a standard SKY receiver then the LNB will probably require replacement as well.