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<blockquote data-quote="Genie" data-source="post: 4423" data-attributes="member: 175176">Please help.Following advice on the forum, I opted to get a 1 meter dish instead of an 80cm. I also bought a double digistar universal monoblock lnb (anyone heard of it). rating 0.7, So that I could pick up both Astra and Hotbird. This is a two lnb's in one with just one output and a built in DiSeqC switch.Now I connected it all up and installed it. I found the Hotbird signal by connecting it up to my analogue receiver and moving the dish until I got an acceptable signal. The analogue receiver does not have Diseqc, so I dont know which LNB the signal was coming from.I search for channels on my Hauppauge WINTV DVB-s card and it picks up most of them on HotBird, but some signals register too week and the channels are not found, like Dubai TV. Others are fine like Bloomberg UK, and Sky News. Why is this, could the Dish need fine alignment? Does the LNB have to fit in the arm fully or at the end, i.e closer to the dish or further away.The other problem I am having is when trying the search for Astra channels I am not getting anything. How can you tell what type of diseqc the LNB has built in. I have set it to mini Diseqc in the receiver. Could it be diseq 1.0. On the lnb box it say diseqc 2.0, but that does not make any sense, cos' I've not heard of that one.I dont know if the left or the right lnb is giving me signal with diseqc off. If I knew I could align the dish accordingly. How can you tell?Could it be that The dish is too big and collecting too much and that the LNB will only work with 80cm because of its fixed offset?:-(Please Help.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Genie, post: 4423, member: 175176"] Please help. Following advice on the forum, I opted to get a 1 meter dish instead of an 80cm. I also bought a double digistar universal monoblock lnb (anyone heard of it). rating 0.7, So that I could pick up both Astra and Hotbird. This is a two lnb's in one with just one output and a built in DiSeqC switch. Now I connected it all up and installed it. I found the Hotbird signal by connecting it up to my analogue receiver and moving the dish until I got an acceptable signal. The analogue receiver does not have Diseqc, so I dont know which LNB the signal was coming from. I search for channels on my Hauppauge WINTV DVB-s card and it picks up most of them on HotBird, but some signals register too week and the channels are not found, like Dubai TV. Others are fine like Bloomberg UK, and Sky News. Why is this, could the Dish need fine alignment? Does the LNB have to fit in the arm fully or at the end, i.e closer to the dish or further away. The other problem I am having is when trying the search for Astra channels I am not getting anything. How can you tell what type of diseqc the LNB has built in. I have set it to mini Diseqc in the receiver. Could it be diseq 1.0. On the lnb box it say diseqc 2.0, but that does not make any sense, cos' I've not heard of that one. I dont know if the left or the right lnb is giving me signal with diseqc off. If I knew I could align the dish accordingly. How can you tell? Could it be that The dish is too big and collecting too much and that the LNB will only work with 80cm because of its fixed offset? :-( Please Help. [/QUOTE]

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