Signal intensity very poor quality

Honestfrank01

Hi I am new to this so bare with me.
I bought a new satellite which I have installed and hooked up to a box (box fairly old looking) anyway I have a sat finder and have been moving it around and got as far as getting 80% signal intensity but the quality is reaching only 14% seems to just stay there no movement. The intensity seems to jump as in 0 then right up to 75%-80%.

Any ideas what I should check for??

Elvis Hammond

To get a quality reading, you need to be tuned to something that your receiver can actually decode.

Are you checking the quality reading from the box? What's the make & model, & can you see what frequency you're tuned to?

keepalive213

Bring tv and box outside, run power extention lead outside. connect coax cable, dish to box directly.
Go through box menus to find the signal indicator bars, and adjust dish accordingly.
Assuming no bad connections or faulty hardware it should work.
Plan B call a professional.

swoofer

we dont know size of dish, satellite, name of channel, is it a hd box, in fact we know nothing. how do you know dish and lnb is installed correctly.

say say sat you want, size of dish, make and model of box. there are lots of satellites.

Honestfrank01

Sorry it's a 60cm sky satellite dish looking to hook up at astra 28.2 the old box I am using for signal test is a silvercrest SL65 (lidl yoke) so I have the box set for the astra 28.2 with a satellite finder attached getting a strong reading from the sat finder and the signal intensity is up in 75-80% mark but quality is staying between 14-16%

Honestfrank01

To be honest I am not gonna use the box as I have a built in tuner in the telly I have just using it as a guide more so

Elvis Hammond

Honestfrank01 wrote: »

Sorry it's a 60cm sky satellite dish looking to hook up at astra 28.2 the old box I am using for signal test is a silvercrest SL65 (lidl yoke) so I have the box set for the astra 28.2 with a satellite finder attached getting a strong reading from the sat finder and the signal intensity is up in 75-80% mark but quality is staying between 14-16%

That's a DVB-S box: you could be tuned to a transponder (tp) that's now DVB-S2.

You need to try something like 10714H, 22000, which has some Channel 4 stuff, or 10964H, 22000, which is Channel 5's tp.

Hopefully you're actually looking at 28.2 east.

Honestfrank01

Elvis Hammond wrote:

You need to try something like 10714H, 22000, which has some Channel 4 stuff, or 10964H, 22000, which is Channel 5's tp.

So be best to get a newer box or think I should hook up to the telly and see if anything comes in? Sorry complete newbie to this

munstergirl

Honestfrank01 wrote: »

So be best to get a newer box or think I should hook up to the telly and see if anything comes in? Sorry complete newbie to this

You tube has videos on how to align dish, also apps for finding direction. It can be very hard to find satellite when you don't know what your doing.

I have a silvercrest box old but working fine + it will give 80% signal 14% quality when the dish is not aligned, when you have a dish aligned properly the signal on box will go 80% 80% or higher and lines will turn blue + green.

3 things when aligning dish
1 back of dish (22 degees ish)
2 where its pointed (compass might help)
3 Lnb at front.

Try again dishpointer.com or buy a satellite finder or pay some installer to align it for you.

Good luck.

Honestfrank01

All sorted this evening thanks for the help folks