Hello, I am an enthusiastic novice willing to learn.
About 2 years ago I put a Fracarro 85cm dish on the side of my garage in Halifax West Yorkshire, with the intention of receiving Freesat. I found that I could just not get on to Astra because of the corner of my neighbours house, so messing about I tried for Hotbird 13. With the aid a a beeper satfinder, within about 15/20 mins I was pulling in about 1850 channels on my Skystar USB 2 HD CI card using the DVBViewer TE software that comes with it. I was very pleased, but due to work commitments didn't bother with satellite until recently when I retired. I checked that Hotbird reception was still good, and decided to move round to try Eurobird 9. Having read a bit about how strong and easy it was to receive, I elevated the dish slightly and very slowly moved it right (looking towards the sat) and soon had a strong signal on the beeper (in fact it saturated the meter and I had to put an attenuator in the lead). I went to do a channel scan but could only get around 50% of the channels. I literally spent hours peaking the dish, moving the azimuth, elevation and skew, but to no avail. I changed the LNB and downlead with no improvement, so I hired an Horizon satmeter. This showed Eurobird 'found' with a signal strength of about 58/60% with signal quality about 85%. I moved the dish up to the house guttering level but saw no improvement. I downloaded DVBViewer Pro and checked the transponder list showed all the transponders, but my lack of knowledge has beaten me. I am sure that there are no obstructions in the line of sight. It has now become an obsession to sort this out. Can anyone help please.
Cheers, Steve
About 2 years ago I put a Fracarro 85cm dish on the side of my garage in Halifax West Yorkshire, with the intention of receiving Freesat. I found that I could just not get on to Astra because of the corner of my neighbours house, so messing about I tried for Hotbird 13. With the aid a a beeper satfinder, within about 15/20 mins I was pulling in about 1850 channels on my Skystar USB 2 HD CI card using the DVBViewer TE software that comes with it. I was very pleased, but due to work commitments didn't bother with satellite until recently when I retired. I checked that Hotbird reception was still good, and decided to move round to try Eurobird 9. Having read a bit about how strong and easy it was to receive, I elevated the dish slightly and very slowly moved it right (looking towards the sat) and soon had a strong signal on the beeper (in fact it saturated the meter and I had to put an attenuator in the lead). I went to do a channel scan but could only get around 50% of the channels. I literally spent hours peaking the dish, moving the azimuth, elevation and skew, but to no avail. I changed the LNB and downlead with no improvement, so I hired an Horizon satmeter. This showed Eurobird 'found' with a signal strength of about 58/60% with signal quality about 85%. I moved the dish up to the house guttering level but saw no improvement. I downloaded DVBViewer Pro and checked the transponder list showed all the transponders, but my lack of knowledge has beaten me. I am sure that there are no obstructions in the line of sight. It has now become an obsession to sort this out. Can anyone help please.
Cheers, Steve
