Can I recieve Hispasat?

[davie]

I am using a skystar 2 pci card and a 80cm fixed sat dish. I can't find hispasat 30 degrees west. I have a satellite finder and I can find astra, hotbird etc no problem but I cant seem to find anything west. I am in the north of Scotland so do I need a bigger dish or just more patience when trying to find hispasat?
Thanks.

 

[rolfw]

From the look of the footprint http://www.lyngsat.com/hispa.shtml (click on Europe in the right hand column), you should be OK. Should also be worth trying for Thor 1W and you may pick up a bit from 5East.

 

[davie]

Thanks Rolfw,
I will give it another go tonight.

 

[rolfw]

Remember that the bird is quite low in the Sky from your location, the dish face will be pretty much vertical with a standard offset dish. Also make sure that you have a frequency selected that has a multiplex on it, I use setup4pc to do this by creating a new satellite and entering the transponder information, then you can see easily when you have a good lock.

 

[davie]

Can you please tell me what transponder settings I should have for hispasat, I have found a faint signal using a sat finder meter but I don't know what to do now?
As you can probably guess I am new to satellites.
Thanks

 

[rolfw]

This is as good as any Davie, 11615 Vertical SR 27,500 FEC3/4

 

[davie]

got it but signal strenth only about 5% and thats about the best I can get with my sat finder.

 

[davie]

Still not working, I am now trying to get hipsasat with an old 1 metre analogue dish with a digital lnb but still not having any luck, are the two compatible or would I be better sticking with my 80cm sky dish?

 

[rolfw]

Just a point Davie, are you skewing the LNB? It needs to be at about 5 O'clock as you look from behind the LNB towards the dish. If you have it set as you did for the Eastern sats, you will get very poor results.

 

[davie]

Thanks Rolfw,
I'm afraid I have a new problem now, I have got the satellite using the settings above about 45% signal but I still can't recieve the channels that are on hispasat, when I scan using dvb viewer I get about 200 channels, Only about 5 are unencripted and they are all test cards or something like that. I get only one radio channel which is emergency broadcast.
Please help as I am getting fed up with it.
Thanks.

 

[rolfw]

Right Davie, now you've found it you're gonna have to download MyTheatre or ProgDVB, if you have XP, then my preference is MyTheatre, you will also need the latest Yangse and softcamkey, you'll find the last two at Toecutters. MyTheatre you'll get at http://www.happysat.org/ go to downloads, TV apps and get MyTheatre 2.76.

 

[davie]

I have my theatre 2.76 but when I open it I get a message failed to get data for AUDIOCHAN erorr code 0x00000000 also where do I find toecutters?

 

[rolfw]

Toecutters is HERE Davie, what operating system are you using and have you selected SS2 in the config menu of MyTheatre?

 

[davie]

I am using windows xp home and no I did not select SS2 so I will try now.
Thanks again Rolfw

 

[davie]

I selected sky2, scanned Hisposat and it found no channels so I uninstalled my theatre, reinstalled it still nothing and it is still giving me the same error. wierd but it has hisposat down as 330 degrees, Also I noticed that only 2 of the satellites in the scan menu have info for them ie LOF1, SW and LOF2 whatever they are, Do I put them in myself and what should they be?
Sorry for being so stupid but hopefully I will get there.

 

[rolfw]

Select KuL, then apply. Then select all of the Transponders and search.

 

[rolfw]

wierd but it has hisposat down as 330 degrees

They start from 0 degrees and go right the way round, 30 degrees West of south is in fact 330 degrees, 1West is shown as 359degrees..

 

[davie]

Nearly there, found 14 channels.

 

[rolfw]

Should be more than that, but of course you could be slightly off beam and a bit out of the footprint for the dish size. A better one may be 1W, more in range and available at the moment.

 

[davie]

Thanks for all your help Rolfw, I will see about getting a bigger dish.