New apartment has coax coming from shared LNB, how to check wether it's active?

[reindeerw5m]

I've recently moved and the new apartment has a coax coming from the roof. I believe there's a 1.2m dish on there with shared LNB. What's are the ways to check if there's signal coming trough the coax? I assume I can do blind scans, however I'm not sure if I have to power the LNB.

Thanks!

 

[Ferret]

You need to know the LNB type and setup a receiver based on that LNBs type.

 

[reindeerw5m]

You need to know the LNB type and setup a receiver based on that LNBs type.

There's an issue as both the previous owner and the neighbours don't seem to know as they are all using iptv's. I wonde rif the dish is even active.. Getting on this roof is incredibly difficult, any other way to figure out?

 

[Ferret]

There's an issue as both the previous owner and the neighbours don't seem to know as they are all using iptv's. I wonde rif the dish is even active.. Getting on this roof is incredibly difficult, any other way to figure out?

You really need to know the LNB type.

Or you could trail and error to find out, keep changing the lnb type on your receiver and scanning

 

[reindeerw5m]

Thanks. I guess I'll just try and figure out changing type. Should I also play around with the LNB voltage while trying or first try the LNB freqs without putting voltage on the LNB

 

[Ferret]

Hard to say what to try not knowing the LNB type.

 

[barney115]

Take a few pictures of LNB/Dish upload it and someone here should be able to tell you .
you can upload making new topic here => Upload Pictures in a new topic Here

 

[reindeerw5m]

Don't think you'll be able to see much from here. It could also be from the antenna instead of the dish.

https://imgur.com/bjE7Vre

https://imgur.com/gBWsjpW

 

[manic01]

That's f connector so more likely satellite feed

 

[barney115]

Yes that will be the satellite Feed F Connector
Dish appears to be a fixed dish indeed 1.2M offset dish
impossible camera angle to tell what type of LNB it is you would need change angle picture at front of dish showing the LNB
you need connect that satellite Feed F Connector to your satellite box LNB Input
if you can do a manual TP Scan where you have a signal you should recognize the channels it scanned and from what satellite it is
aligned at too .
let us know what channels you get with your scans ,
cheers !

 

[kippysat]

Don't think you'll be able to see much from here. It could also be from the antenna instead of the dish.

https://imgur.com/bjE7Vre

https://imgur.com/gBWsjpW

Hello

What type of receiver do you have available to connect the cable to?

 

[mdkgr]

1) its straight connected to LNB

2) it was from DVB-T antenna that ended indoors to an amplifier for TV

3) It connected somewhere on roof on TV/SAT combiner and should have indoors the same combiner at the end of cable


Best is to follow the cable

If you cant follow it plug it to a SAT receiver (blindscan capable) and blind scan so you can understand from the results where is pointed.

If no results 3 scenarios

1) dish has lost allignment

2) it is the cable of the DVB-T antenna

3) If combiner exists you will not be able to get any results without the other end indoors i mean

Hope this helps

Best Regards

 

[reindeerw5m]

Hello

What type of receiver do you have available to connect the cable to?

I have a GTmedia V8x. Will give it a shot this weekend. I’m very curious.

 

[reindeerw5m]

Thanks for the help everyone.

I've figured out the LNB type by trying different settings and it is indeed aiming at Hisposat which I expected. Getting around 91% signal strength with only +- 69% signal quality on public FTA channels which seems pretty low to me considering the dish size of 1m-1.2m.

Since it's no longer in use I might try to get it moved to 7E. Hoping the poor signal quality is dish alignment related otherwise I won't be catching much on 7e.