Louis Cypher
Member
It could be as simple as water ingress.
Motorised satellite out of alignment
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Northern Monkey
Member
Wouldn’t have thought so since the other satellites are fine.
Northern Monkey
Member
Still not sorted it, I arranged with my builder mate to do it, just need to let him know when. I’ve been side tracked with long covid and decorating the living room, neither of which have gone well.
I started the decorating and decided to move some pictures about, removed a nail from the wall and then a hissing sound and a smell of gas.
I put a nail through a gas pipe about 18 years ago and the nail must have been stopping the leak😂
I started the decorating and decided to move some pictures about, removed a nail from the wall and then a hissing sound and a smell of gas.
I put a nail through a gas pipe about 18 years ago and the nail must have been stopping the leak😂
cactikid
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Louis Cypher
Member
Just sounds similar to an issue i had a year or so ago, lost some of the weaker beams & satellites & some transponders, also a drop in signal strength.....i cut the cables back with some improvement.....then had to change the lnb & was perfect again. No misalignment, just ingress due to me not using self amalgamating on the connections.
Tony Batty
Newbie
I set mine up even Without a meter a I simply bring my box and TV outside Before you unplug everything while indoors set the receiver onto Thor 1 West on the Gospel channel which is a clear Channel set the motor to 0 west go outside and plug the patch lead between the dish and the motor and the other from the motor to receiver Switch on TV and Receiver then undo all the nuts on the dish and Manouver The dish Sideways and vertically untill you get a picture on Thor on the Gospel Channel when you do tighten everything up do it like a car wheel diagnaly as if you tighten it up to much on one side it pulls it out of allignment tighten all the nuts till they a finger tight then do 1 Turn on each nut Top Left 1 Turn Bottom right one turn Top Right One Turn bottom left one turn keep checking the picture and make sure its not pixilating as this means its going out of alignment all the other channals will automatically lock in pproviding you have put in you co-ordinates correctly in the receiver Plug the coax going indoors back to the motor and set it up as in the first installation go indoors set everything up and you should have all your sataliites Back
Tony Batty
Newbie
oh by the way how high is you dish off the ground there is no need to have it up in the sky subjecting it to gale force wind mine is on a scaffolding pole about 3 meters above ground level and I get every satallite from Hispasat to Turksat
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Tony Batty
Newbie
you try getting one that deals with motorised dishes most only deal with bloody Sky or if you are lucky a static dish
Tony Batty
Newbie
Like I said take it down and get it nearer to the ground and reset it the way I explained mine works perfectly apart from my technomate going belly up which I never had a problem with this new Technomate MK 4 is a pain in the arse as regards as entering CCCam lines and the help on here is very vaugue i have download the file TM402 I have downloaded the software file zilla but I am no nearer to knowing what to do with them
Have you read this mate @mike142 answered it with very detailed instructions
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get an e2 receiver
Northern Monkey
Member
Mine has to be up high unfortunately, I’m surrounded by other houses.
The neighbour to my left would block everything from 0.8w to 42e if I didn’t have it above the gable end.
weimaraner95
TK Veteran
Hi lads,
Was checking various signal strength of channels , location wise Itv London , my region Granada, BBC NW , etc and these vary so. Anyway I went to tuner config and either changing my longitude from 2.971 to 2.50. or using the fine tuning feature in positioner setup going west ( about 5-7) presses then I can increase my signal strength.
Doing this on 0.8w ref channels I can increase SQ from 76-92 with a few presses west.
Guess my alignment is out fractionally , I assume I need to move the whole rig WEST .
Nice weather too
Was checking various signal strength of channels , location wise Itv London , my region Granada, BBC NW , etc and these vary so. Anyway I went to tuner config and either changing my longitude from 2.971 to 2.50. or using the fine tuning feature in positioner setup going west ( about 5-7) presses then I can increase my signal strength.
Doing this on 0.8w ref channels I can increase SQ from 76-92 with a few presses west.
Guess my alignment is out fractionally , I assume I need to move the whole rig WEST .
Nice weather too
It seems that way mate, worth doing.
kegnkiwi
TK Veteran
I wonder if there is another way to can you fake zero. I think i have done this by driving the dish to zero and then nudging the dish east or west then storing that as zero. I cannot remember if it works of not. Whats others thoughts.
weimaraner95
TK Veteran
Put my longitude back to correct reading 2.971 , on the roof moving slightly west checking meter , maxed out signal at 0.8 , ,*30,W 42e. Yet when I still go back and fine tune pressing green,(west a few times the signal increases dB . Not sure what else I can do
Kurdt Kobain
Member
Until you're able to reposition the dish, consider using DISEqC 1.2 to manually select the satellites instead of USALS.
Northern Monkey
Member
Mine still isn't 100% but better than what it was.
Loosened the bolts slightly and moved the motor east.
I gave up trying to find someone to get it 100% aligned after 2 installers didn't bother turning up.
The only one who sounded like he'd turn up wanted £500 just realign it, no wonder he was the most helpful
Loosened the bolts slightly and moved the motor east.
I gave up trying to find someone to get it 100% aligned after 2 installers didn't bother turning up.
The only one who sounded like he'd turn up wanted £500 just realign it, no wonder he was the most helpful
Moving the whole rig will just move the alignment ie will still be wrong. What you do is make sure the whole rig is dead straight, with high winds the dish can move ever so slightly and a bugger to get right. If you get over 70 on all sats then who cares. Mine went out a few years ago so I tweaked usals by 1 for the west and minus 1 for the east. Works like a dream except when I forget the tweak. 😆