I have a 2nd sky box that I was going to take to france with us, does anyone know would an ordinary dish (60cm) do the business and would we need a sat finder or can you just tune in in on the sky box???
You can use the sky box as a tuning aid but you have to be very patient as it takes time for a small change in position to be "digitised" in the box. A satellite finder is more immediate but even so you should make changes very slowly.
I just use a compass, start with the dish pointing to East and then rotate the dish very slowly towards the South. Somewhere near SE, the first satellite that you come to is the one you want.
We use a 60 cm dish in France with no problems, with sat finder. On our second site, hubby just pointed the dish and hey presto he found it no problems. We do have a compass to help.
You need a sat finder, all though some are rubbish, even the expensive ones, try and get hold of a DIGISAT they are made by a Swedish firm, I used one as back up, and somtimes it even gave my works £1000 Unaohm 805B Pro Spectrum Analyser sat finder a run for it's money, the DIGISAT cost around £30, also by using a finder you fine tune the Dish for max signal, even rotating the Lnb in it's holder as your final adjustment can improve the reception, most decent finders give an audible tone, that gets higher as the signal gets better, this allows you to tighten all the fittings up whilst being aware of any drop in signal.
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