Comments on: Freesat on Sky Dish

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:19:47 +0000

marie: either attach your receiver to the cable / dish and see if it works or contact someone to chaeck it out for you.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:19:08 +0000

phil: most freesat PVRs are able to detect if one cable is being used or not. I suspect that your reeciver still thinks it has two cables attached. YOu will have to perofrm a Freesat scan and ensure the receiver konws that onel one cable is bieng used.
Or option2: buy a twon output LNB and run a second cable from that to the receiver
Or Option 3: if your receiver has a loop out, connect a small cable from that loop out to the input 2.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:17:20 +0000

geoff: ideally each receiver, or each input on each receiver, should have its own cable feed from the LNB. If you do not then this will cause problems, especailly if the two “split cable” receivers are wanting to watch channels on two different frequencies polarisations (ie vertical and horizontal) …the cable will only handle one frequency polarisation at a time, so receivers may not show the desired channels as they will both be competeing for frequencies over the same cable.

By: marie

marie — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:24:02 +0000

i have just moved house,and there is a satellite dish on the wall I would like to get freesat but dont know wether the sat dish is working or not,how do i find this out please..

By: phil lewis

phil lewis — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:30:41 +0000

hi have just bought a freesat recorder and have got an old sky mini dish which has only one lnb cable. have a good picture on all channels but when i try to record it says no satalite signal to record.is it the lnb if so can anyone tell me which one i need .
many thanks phil

By: geoff mcmahon

geoff mcmahon — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:26:07 +0000

i have moved into a new house with a dish with 2 sky + cables attached the first 1 i have used for sky in my living room can i use the second cable and split one end into two single cables and use them in older sky boxes in two seperate bedrooms

By: Fay

Fay — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:13:49 +0000

mmmmmmm I SEE !!! she says !! I have a friend trying to find an Antenaeista for me as its now going off at 5 30pm !!! and im not a day time TV watcher Thankyou for the encouragemnet ands info Ill let you know as asap that ive found the solution Life without Newsnight is unbeaarble !! Thankyou for letting me know what LNB is !
BEST WISHES FAY

By: satandpcguy

satandpcguy — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:40:44 +0000

Fay: if dishes are not aligned properly, or have been knocked around in winds, then their reception drops off, as they will no longer be aligned to the satellite correctly.. Dishes can be more than 1m – i think in Greece 4m satellite dishes are the norm, where I am 1.8m and 2.4m satellites dishes are the norm. LNB – Low Noise Block – the “eye” at the end of the “stalk” that “collects” the signal.

By: Fay

Fay — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:00:09 +0000

Hi Thankyou for that Ill get it checked but why does it work all day fine and then at 6 30pm break up and turn off? I know that the weather can affect it from the north but this first started wirth 10 30pm disturbance then 7 30 and now 6 30pm mmmm I don think there is a dish bigger then 1 metre wide is there ? and it proboly would be allowed on the roof ! its already very big But thankyou for replying Ill get it checked again Happy new year Fay Forgive me but what is LNB !

By: satandpcguy

satandpcguy — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:48:53 +0000

A few things to check:
dish alignment, the smallest movement will cause signal loss.
LNB – performance of these does deteriorate over time.
perhaps your 1m dish is no longer big enough to receive the channels, as it was operating on the edge of its reception in the first place.