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Permalink Reply by Bill McMurray on March 8, 2013 at 0:19

Hi Tom,

The LNB must be okay because you're picking up a signal through the sat finder, so that means It's probably one of three things:- 1. You've got the dish aimed at the wrong satellite. 2. The L.O. setting in the receiver is wrong. 3. the skew of the LNB is way out.

So lets start with the easy ones. If you've got a single throat, good quality LNB then 8 o'clock will be pretty close (that's looking from the front of the dish). While you're up there check what the L.O. (Local Oscillation) of the LNB is; - It will be printed on the label = L.O.11300 or 10750 or 11.3 or 10.75. Now check that the L.O. setting in your receiver is the same.

Because when you turn the 7070 receivers on for the first time they automatically check the L.O. of the LNB on your dish and store it into their system. But if you then take that receiver to another location, where the LNB's L.O. is different, you have to manually change the setting.

If those two check out, then it looks like you've locked onto the wrong satellite. A sat finder simply tells you that there's a satellite in that position - you have to hope it's the right one. My signal meter tells me what frequencies are being transmitted off that satellite so I can then recognise which satellite it is.

Optus D1, the satellite you want, will be within about 10 to 15 degrees horizontally and 5 to 8 degrees vertically from where you are. The signal off it will be noticably stronger than the other satellites, so lock onto the strongest signal you can find, say a prayer and check inside.

Cheers,    Bill.

 

Permalink Reply by Tom Heaney on March 8, 2013 at 9:28

Thanks for that, much apprec'd, will re-check everything.
 
Bill McMurray said:

Hi Tom,

The LNB must be okay because you're picking up a signal through the sat finder, so that means It's probably one of three things:- 1. You've got the dish aimed at the wrong satellite. 2. The L.O. setting in the receiver is wrong. 3. the skew of the LNB is way out.

So lets start with the easy ones. If you've got a single throat, good quality LNB then 8 o'clock will be pretty close (that's looking from the front of the dish). While you're up there check what the L.O. (Local Oscillation) of the LNB is; - It will be printed on the label = L.O.11300 or 10750 or 11.3 or 10.75. Now check that the L.O. setting in your receiver is the same.

Because when you turn the 7070 receivers on for the first time they automatically check the L.O. of the LNB on your dish and store it into their system. But if you then take that receiver to another location, where the LNB's L.O. is different, you have to manually change the setting.

If those two check out, then it looks like you've locked onto the wrong satellite. A sat finder simply tells you that there's a satellite in that position - you have to hope it's the right one. My signal meter tells me what frequencies are being transmitted off that satellite so I can then recognise which satellite it is.

Optus D1, the satellite you want, will be within about 10 to 15 degrees horizontally and 5 to 8 degrees vertically from where you are. The signal off it will be noticably stronger than the other satellites, so lock onto the strongest signal you can find, say a prayer and check inside.

Cheers,    Bill.