I set dish direction for a start with compass then adjust dish until signal finder shows max signal strength also use display on screen menu showing strength and quality.(usually 5min job)
If you carry a laptop go to http://www.dishpointer.com/ when you get on site, put in your location and it will tell you everything that you want to know.
If you do not carry a laptop, before you go on holiday, put in the sites location, blow the screen up and print it out, then you can take that with you.
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Terry Birch
Our tourer days are over and we have moved on to a Hobby Motorhome
use a compass find dead south point dish to 140 / 145 degs east of south.keep sat dish vertical in uk.bingo.
have tv on / select services / select 4 system set up / select 6 signal test / graph shows ..... signal strength / single quality /lock indicator /network id /transport stream.
signal strength = 50 % =ok
signal quality = 50 % =ok
lock indicator = ok = ok
network id = 0002 =ok
transport stream = 07d4 = ok
and you have a good picture and your away.
Post last edited on 02/11/2011 12:21:41
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Hi my only problem with the Satellite malarky is finding a spot on site with line of sight i.e. no trees etc to the satellite, just means you might be able to pitch where you want to exactly.
Otherwise just use the Freeview TV aerial.
Hi sue go into Maplins Stoke & buy Satellite beeper (£9.99) works by ear piece beeping when searching for satellite(constant) beep when you find sat beep gets louder left to right then slight up & down until you get strongest beep, have used one of these for 5yrs on free to air sat. i.am now taking my sky box & card as i helped a chap on site find sky with this beeper earlier on this year
Always start rotating the dish from east towards south.
Extract from my Idiots guide to "Aiming the dish using a signal meter":-
Point the dish roughly half way between east and south. (approx. 125˚ magnetic). Now switch on the PVR/Digibox and TV to get a few volts up the cable.
The meter may or may not start to squeal immediately.
If it does - adjust the squeal down to its lowest possible volume level but just still audible.
If it doesn't - swing the dish very slowly a little further towards south until it does.
Adjust the squeal down to its lowest audible level and very slowly continue to swing the dish laterally towards south about an inch at a time pausing for a few seconds before moving again.
Astra 2 should be the first satellite that you start to pick up and the squeal should rise rapidly in volume as you move the dish till it reaches a peak.
With the squeal at its loudest, stop and lock down the lateral (azimuth) dish setting and reduce the volume of the squeal back to "just audible".
Slacken the elevation lock again and fine tune the elevation setting by gently tilting the dish backward or forward until the squeal again reaches its peak. Lock off the elevation.
I did seven years working for Sky, and trust me Sky ain't bothered so long as your monthly subsription keeps rolling in, my dept used to turn a blind eye, to dealers who were obviously, setting up ex-pats in Spain etc, with Sky, and registering the card and kit, to a UK address.
Even though some UK addresses had over a 1000 subscriptions registered to the one uk address.
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