default transponder setting gran canaria

[ricopaul]

Hi does anyone know the latest default transponder setting for sky boxes in gran canaria,the last time i was there i had to get a sat guy in and the freqeuncy had changed my stepdaughters are over at my place and it appears all the 3 freqencies i had dont work as the box has been turned off!!! i wondered if there was a new one???

 

[satelliteman]

Thread moved to an appropriate section.

Try 2A South transponders:

12129v 27.5, 2/3
12207v 27.5, 2/3

 

[ricopaul]

will get them to try it asap thanks

 

[ricopaul]

that worked a treat mate thanks,where did you get those transponder frequencies again if it happens again which im sure it might rather than ask good people like yourself for them i could get them myself,thanks.

 

[woborny]

you can use any of the Astra 2 south beam frequencies to use as a default transponder to help the sky boxes boot up.
in fact I think you can use ANY frequency that you know you can receive.

 

[Analoguesat]

Problem is that if the box gets even the merest sniff of ther north beam it will immediately revert back

 

[BLUEPLATINUM]

I use 11.739 (+ defaults) without problem.

 

[ricopaul]

Thanks guys got the hang of it now,ive even got a link to lyngsat website which gives me a whole host of frequencies to try in future if i have problems,
1,So is its any frequency from the astra 2a for my sky box to work??,
2,Would a humax freesat box or something like that work better without messing round retuning it in everytime someone goes.
3,If its turned of for any period of time will any box revert back the north beam?

I currently have a sky pace 2600c1 with 1.2m dish and can get itv 1(thru tuning extra channels ,think i can get C4 but not tried yet)a few ch5 five usa&fiver, sky news&bbc news and red button works thru this plus a load of channels that are pretty useless,but its only a holiday home so not too bothered but more the better.

 

[BLUEPLATINUM]

As far as I know a 1.5m dish is no better than an 80 cm for GC. If you do receive any channels that are NOT on 2A/2B South or Eurobird Fixed beams (all the channels you mention are on there) then I would be interested to know as I could probably upgrade to a 1.5m dish at the Maspalomas house (I have a 2.4m Channel Master at home).

 

[ricopaul]

Unfortunatelly i am not going out till march,my stepdaughters are there at then moment but woudlnt expect them to be able to get all the channels of for me,But when i return i will be willing to send you a list of channels i am pulling,
On LYNGSAT website there are all the default transponder setting and if i try one on the astra 2d beam for instance and get it(which i know will be pretty impossible then i will let u know)For the euro bird beam which i know is few few degrees away from astra 2a,b will it be possible to use the same tuner and lnb to try and pick up channels,as i have seen dishes with 2 lnbs on them one piggy backed on the lnb bracket pointing a few degrees different and wonderd what this was for??
I put my pace 2600 c1 on my mates 1.5m dish before i hooked up to a 1.2 myself and at the time i had an expiring S** card(now have free veiw card)and was pulling many channels but as the card has expired and i dont pay S** my choices have dwindled,The pace 2600 c1 has a very strong tuner but was wondering if you knew of any boxes with stronger tuners in???,I am also thinking of just putting in a signal booster as currently have about 30m of cable to my dish,I have a good quality LNB i am told(shared dish)so if i boost that signal loss back up along with a strong tuner in my box hopefully i may have a good chance of pulling more channels,i have heard chinese whispers of people pulling bb1 on pace 2600 c1s in the canaries on 1.5m dishes(but might just be BS)but surely to have any chance of doing this i will have to have the strongest signal possible,so a signl booster may help.

 

[BLUEPLATINUM]

You use the phrase "the canaries". Don't look at reports from the other islands. They pull in loads of channels on 1.5m dishes in Fuerte ans Lanzarote that we can't get in GC.

BTW - as far as I know from reading the forums the signal boosters don't work.

 

[Lazarus]

BTW - as far as I know from reading the forums the signal boosters don't work.

That's because they amplify not only the wanted signal but also the incoming noise, plus add a bit of their own.

Only intended for use in overcoming losses on long cable runs.

 

[ricopaul]

I have about 30m of coax from lnb to box so might it be usefull?? in that case

 

[Lazarus]

I have about 30m of coax from lnb to box so might it be usefull?? in that case

30m is not significantly long, but amps are cheap enough as to be worth a try, if only to prove that the real answer to overcoming marginal reception is a bigger dish!

 

[ricopaul]

I deep down know that you are right about the dish size,but cannot get away with getting a bigger dish at the moment as the communidad dont like the 1.5m ones let alone a 2.4m eliptical,but i am hopefull i may get 1 more decent channel for instance,but for £5 then it may be worh a gamble on my mates 1.5m dish (with shorter cable run)when i first tried my pace 2600c1 i had an old subscription card and was pulling more channels than he was as he had an amstrad hd box,but now i have freesat card.

 

[ricopaul]

I use 11.739 (+ defaults) without problem.

Blue Platinum,I take it you mean defaults such as ITV1 though manual tuning and adding extra channels,are there any more we can get in GC by manual tuning??

 

[timo_w2s]

I deep down know that you are right about the dish size,but cannot get away with getting a bigger dish at the moment as the communidad dont like the 1.5m ones let alone a 2.4m eliptical,but i am hopefull i may get 1 more decent channel for instance,but for £5 then it may be worh a gamble on my mates 1.5m dish (with shorter cable run)when i first tried my pace 2600c1 i had an old subscription card and was pulling more channels than he was as he had an amstrad hd box,but now i have freesat card.

I think the Pace 2600C1 was one of the best receivers made for Sky.

As for in-line amps, you can't amplify what you don't have... the best way to see if an amp might help is, if practical and safe, to take the receiver to the dish and connect a short length of temporary cable between the LNB and receiver. If there is a significant increase in signal quality over the usual signal when connected to the long cable run then an amp might help somewhat.

 

[BLUEPLATINUM]

In today's world a big dish is not absolutely necessary. Provided you have a Sky HD receiver and HD subscription you can get ITV1, ITV 1 HD, C4 HD, Five, Five HD, Sky1, Sky3+1 and at least one variant of most of the other main channels including Sky Sports but EXCLUDING Sky Movies packages.