Hello All,
Having never dabbled in the world of satellite tv, I thought I would change over to Freesat & install the dish myself.
Set up is as follows: 40cm Raven Mk4 minidish, Zinwell Sky branded Quad LNB, just under 20m shotgun cable to one room, twin run of RG6 to second room, all terminated with Labgear shielded grid F outlets, Humax HDR-1000s on the shotgun cable run. All purchased new.
I "pretuned" the Humax on an existing Sky dish at a different address & had a picture straight away when connected to my dish, using the signal strength meters on the Humax, I aligned the dish to the "sweet spot" & was happy with my work, both tuners showing 90% strength/100% quality.
I used dishpointer website for the direction, a neighboring dish for elevation & the LNB skew is set on position 3.
However, I am experiencing a problem. The signal randomly drops out completely, preceded by a very brief picture & sound break up, during this time, the signal strength meters report no signal on both tuners. The signal does not return on its own.
This evening I was watching ITV1HD (119), signal drops out, change channel to ITV4+1 (118), still no signal, change to S4 (120), signal returns on all channels. This sequence was repeatable.
The issue is much more prevalent just after switching the decoder on.
Owing to the channel change fix, I'm thinking the LNB is at fault?
Or does this sound like a simple dish alignment issue?
Opinions much appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
Having never dabbled in the world of satellite tv, I thought I would change over to Freesat & install the dish myself.
Set up is as follows: 40cm Raven Mk4 minidish, Zinwell Sky branded Quad LNB, just under 20m shotgun cable to one room, twin run of RG6 to second room, all terminated with Labgear shielded grid F outlets, Humax HDR-1000s on the shotgun cable run. All purchased new.
I "pretuned" the Humax on an existing Sky dish at a different address & had a picture straight away when connected to my dish, using the signal strength meters on the Humax, I aligned the dish to the "sweet spot" & was happy with my work, both tuners showing 90% strength/100% quality.
I used dishpointer website for the direction, a neighboring dish for elevation & the LNB skew is set on position 3.
However, I am experiencing a problem. The signal randomly drops out completely, preceded by a very brief picture & sound break up, during this time, the signal strength meters report no signal on both tuners. The signal does not return on its own.
This evening I was watching ITV1HD (119), signal drops out, change channel to ITV4+1 (118), still no signal, change to S4 (120), signal returns on all channels. This sequence was repeatable.
The issue is much more prevalent just after switching the decoder on.
Owing to the channel change fix, I'm thinking the LNB is at fault?
Or does this sound like a simple dish alignment issue?
Opinions much appreciated!
Thanks in advance.