Tuning Sky Satellite Dish

PAPILLION

I have just moved house, and I brought my Satellite Dish and decoder with me, I have the Dish installed and the cable in place, but am having a great deal of hastle locking on to the satellite and getting a signal.

I know that I need to be pointing 28.8 degrees from south and that the network ID has to be 0002 etc but I'm still having a devil of a job getting a picture.

Is there anything that can help, short of spending €50 for an installer to come out and spend 5 minutes using a high tech gizmo, whilst laughing at my incompetance.

All I have is a dodgy old compass and good balance, but these seem to be very minor requirments at the moment as I have wasted hours in persuit of TV.

Any advice is welcome

Pappeh

Scotsguy

Thought this might be of interest to any of you attempting to manually setup a Sky dish..

http://www.satelliteforcaravans.co.uk/

Never tried it myself although used to carry an analogue box over to Donegal when visiting ..haul the dish out of the shed and set it up on a pole in the garden. Used to take all of 5 minutes!....The Boss widna let me have a permanent setup......:)

Dun

It has to be pointing 28.2 degrees East, make sure you're not pointing at 28.2 West. Also, the angle the dish is at depends on your location - have a look at that site mentioned above by Scotsguy.

Mark_irl

I find best way is to use an old analogue box and a portable tv outside to tune in the satellite Astra 1, 19 east with all the german channels beside it and then hook up the digibox outside and carefull move it till you get Astra 2, 28.2 east tuned .

PAPILLION

i found it in the end by the way.

my problem was that my dish was at a slight squew, so i recon that the signal wasnt hitting the lmb when it bounced off of the dish.

once it was straight i found it in a few mins. great!