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Chilliflake
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Hi all
I got SKY about 2 months ago and the engineer attached a 60" dish to the side of my balcony and everything was fine. Except for the fact that we are not allowed have a dish permanently attached to our apartment (which we knew but were hoping to get away with for as long as possible as it was discreetly hidden). Anyway, the long and the short of it is that I had to take it down a month ago. Since then I've been without a tv service as the only supplier to our development is a company called Cablewatch who are charging a fortune for basic channels and a mediocre service at best by all accounts. So it's against all my principles to be forced into subscribing with them.
I have no idea about satellite dishes but gave it a go. I ordered a tripod on eBay and set that up when it arrived. I then attached the existing 60" dish to it but it wouldn't fit on the pole and then was too top heavy for the tripod, plus I didn't know how to find the satellite signal or connect it up. So I ordered a smaller, 43" dish and a sat finder, both of which arrived today and spent most of the evening setting them up. I have a quad LNB (I think..!) which is needed for SKY + apparently, so I took that off the existing 60" SKY dish and connected it to my new smaller dish (which only came with a single LNB).
I did what the instructions instructed me to do and put the cables from the existing quad LNB into each side of the sat finder and tried to find a signal. The sat finder seemed to be working as it went up to 5 or 6 and the light was on, but then after that I just don't know what to do. Every time I take the cables out of the sat finder and reconnect them to the LNB, no signal. I'm not sure if the cables are even in the right connectors on the LNB but I've tried swapping them around (each connector says "P1" or "P2" etc,) but still no signal. I don't know how to find the signal and make sure the dish is going to pick up the signal, and then after that I don't know what I'm meant to be doing.
Should I be doing it at a certain time of the day or should I be doing something else? How come the sat finder seems to find a strong signal but that's as far as I can get?! I know I have to have the dish lined up correctly, but I'm not even sure how to do that because the sat finder seems to find a signal at every angle the dish is facing.
I'm sure I sound like a total moron but I'm tearing my hair out and tired of looking at the four walls while spending a fortune on satellite dishes and equipment that I can't work. I would very much appreciate it if anyone could help me as my last resort, apart from knowing someone who could fix it for me (which I don't), is to go with Cablewatch, but that means continuing to pay my €79pm SKY subscription on top of Cablewatch's sub, and I'm only 2 months into my SKY sub.
Help me!! Is there an engineer or a "satellite genius" of some description I could call that any of you know of that might call out to my place to have a look??
Many thanks everybody
Chilliflake
I got SKY about 2 months ago and the engineer attached a 60" dish to the side of my balcony and everything was fine. Except for the fact that we are not allowed have a dish permanently attached to our apartment (which we knew but were hoping to get away with for as long as possible as it was discreetly hidden). Anyway, the long and the short of it is that I had to take it down a month ago. Since then I've been without a tv service as the only supplier to our development is a company called Cablewatch who are charging a fortune for basic channels and a mediocre service at best by all accounts. So it's against all my principles to be forced into subscribing with them.
I have no idea about satellite dishes but gave it a go. I ordered a tripod on eBay and set that up when it arrived. I then attached the existing 60" dish to it but it wouldn't fit on the pole and then was too top heavy for the tripod, plus I didn't know how to find the satellite signal or connect it up. So I ordered a smaller, 43" dish and a sat finder, both of which arrived today and spent most of the evening setting them up. I have a quad LNB (I think..!) which is needed for SKY + apparently, so I took that off the existing 60" SKY dish and connected it to my new smaller dish (which only came with a single LNB).
I did what the instructions instructed me to do and put the cables from the existing quad LNB into each side of the sat finder and tried to find a signal. The sat finder seemed to be working as it went up to 5 or 6 and the light was on, but then after that I just don't know what to do. Every time I take the cables out of the sat finder and reconnect them to the LNB, no signal. I'm not sure if the cables are even in the right connectors on the LNB but I've tried swapping them around (each connector says "P1" or "P2" etc,) but still no signal. I don't know how to find the signal and make sure the dish is going to pick up the signal, and then after that I don't know what I'm meant to be doing.
Should I be doing it at a certain time of the day or should I be doing something else? How come the sat finder seems to find a strong signal but that's as far as I can get?! I know I have to have the dish lined up correctly, but I'm not even sure how to do that because the sat finder seems to find a signal at every angle the dish is facing.
I'm sure I sound like a total moron but I'm tearing my hair out and tired of looking at the four walls while spending a fortune on satellite dishes and equipment that I can't work. I would very much appreciate it if anyone could help me as my last resort, apart from knowing someone who could fix it for me (which I don't), is to go with Cablewatch, but that means continuing to pay my €79pm SKY subscription on top of Cablewatch's sub, and I'm only 2 months into my SKY sub.
Help me!! Is there an engineer or a "satellite genius" of some description I could call that any of you know of that might call out to my place to have a look??
Many thanks everybody
Chilliflake