Newbie Here Humax HB 1100S

[SatNovis]

Hi all,
Your opinion will be welcome here. I have the above SetTopBox for about 4 years and it worked very well. Recently I changed address. In the new place I connect the STB to the satellite dish that comes with the house. I worked well for about a year and suddenly stop working. I thought the LNB has failed, so I bought a new LNB which is a wideband unit. I tried everything and cannot get it to work.

I then bought a Satlink WS-6933. I set the WS-6933 as follows:
Satellite.......................Astra 2 28.2 E
LNB................................Universal
Local Oscillator.......10410
TP Num.........................59
Freq................................11097 V
Symbrate......................23000

With that settings I got a very good signal on the meter. When I connect the STB it tells me there is no signal. Where am I going wrong. I get the feeling the STB is faulty.
What do think?

Thanks for your time

Ranford

 

[PaulR]

The problem first of all is that you bought a wideband LNB. These will only work with $ky Q boxes and the very newest Freesat boxes.

You need to change that for a Universal LNB and then go from that to see if it solves your problem.

 

[SatNovis]

Hi all,
Your opinion will be welcome here. I have the above SetTopBox for about 4 years and it worked very well. Recently I changed address. In the new place I connect the STB to the satellite dish that comes with the house. I worked well for about a year and suddenly stop working. I thought the LNB has failed, so I bought a new LNB which is a wideband unit. I tried everything and cannot get it to work.

I then bought a Satlink WS-6933. I set the WS-6933 as follows:
Satellite.......................Astra 2 28.2 E
LNB................................Universal
Local Oscillator.......10410
TP Num.........................59
Freq................................11097 V
Symbrate......................23000

With that settings I got a very good signal on the meter. When I connect the STB it tells me there is no signal. Where am I going wrong. I get the feeling the STB is faulty.
What do think?

Thanks for your time

Ranford

Thanks Paul for your reply, I will set about getting a universal LNB.

 

[SatNovis]

Once again, thanks Paul.
I got the universal LNB and with the Satlink WS-6933 I found the signal quite easily. Now the system is up and running, the wife is happy.

 

[Channel Hopper]

The Humax should still receive some channels with a wideband LNB on the dish, though you may have to manual tune them.

If the dish was already installed and functioning, the LNB is a straight swap and does not need a meter to align.

 

[PaulR]

Excellent news.

Have you tried the Humax again? Has it healed itself while it was disconnected?

 

[SatNovis]

Hi Paul,

The Humax is in use now. After getting the new LNB aligned, I did a factor reset on the STB, then connected the dish to it. Waited a while and carried out a signal test. The STB now showed me the same signal as the meter did. I then did an auto tune and all is well. You taught me an inportant fact regarding LNBs, I did a lot of reading and did not find that piece of info.

Keep up the good work guys. You make novice like me think he is an expert.

 

[PaulR]

Glad to be of service and, frankly, glad it was such an easy fix!