Does anyone here have any experience in lining up a sky satellite dish, Dish is installed already and has both cables wired to sky box but I'm getting no signal. I've read up it needs to be pointed south west, Is there any easy way of doing this without having to call out an installer.
did ye put the dish up yourself? i put one up not too long ago (not a sky dish) ad it was fairly easy to allign it. i've never had sky so don't know if there's an info button on the remote, (there is on the remote off my system) if there is press it and a signal strength bar should come up on the telly.get someone to keep an eye on that while you are moving the dish slowly to the left or right.when you get the highest percentage stop moving it left or right,start moving it slowly upwards or downwards till you get the highest percentage.you need to be up over 70% signal strength to start getting a picture.
Just another idea; Ive had my signal go completely at times eg when upgrading to HD. I found that by switching the 2 satelittle input leads that go in your sky box signal has instantly returned. Sky will never advise this on the phone but I found out online. Just check that first before touching the satelite.
Hi mate I'm no expert but did a few dishes - years ago. If it's Astra your after (Sky Satellite, or the older ones which have some European Channels - hardly any English speaking), then you want to point the dish South East, not South West mate. * Astra - Sky satellites is something like 28 degrees East (of South) * Astra - older satellites, primarily non-English speaking channels is something like 23 degrees East (of South) - a compass will prove helpful, but as Willie suggests above, most important of all is someone keeping an eye on the TV (ensuring you've the Sky Box connected up, turned on and a channel selected etc) - also, there's a thing called a signal strength tester which you can fit to the lnb and cable when your searching for a satellite, costs about a tenner and can be helpful as it beeps when you find a satellite - though beeps for each one, so you won't be assured first time it beeps, it's Astra. Handy nonetheless, as once you find a satellite nearby, just move the dish a tinny bit each time - all satellites are on an arc, so only left to right, once you've found a satellite when pointing the dish in a general South East direction. I'm in Dublin so the angle will appear very different for me, to you, but nonetheless an old rule of thumb I used to use was point the dish towards the sun, around 11am and you'd be getting close to pointing in the right direction. Hope that helps. Mate When you do this, do both connections continue to work (think one is for the TV your watching, the other for recording, as I have it) ? - sounds more like a fault with your sky box, if something like that is happening from time to time, but immediately fixing your problem.
Basically I've been sitting watching Sky and one channel has dropped, then another and another and soon they are all gone. All the standard solutions (which never work) dont do anything but by switching the two inputs I get my signal back (and have no problem with recording etc).
If you have a sky box Press the back up button and plug out the power lead while keeping the back up button press leave it out for 5 seconds and plug back in the power cable keep the back up button pressed until the box starts up it will self diagnose itself if the box has a problem it will tell you