MaxPeak SAM shows V Low quality

[Lectrician]

I have bought a MaxPeak SAM alignment meter.

My home sky box and my neighbours both show a 80-90% level for both signal and quality when using the sky boxes signal test page.

The new meter I am testing gives a 70-80db signal strength, but only a very low 5% quality, and even lossing this and dropping the lock.

I very much doubt both mine and my neighbours dishes are miss aligned, especially as I have no issues with reception. I use a Zone 2 dish down here in devon.

Anyone had any issues with these relatively unknown meters?

Thanks in advance.

Martin.

 

[Lazarus]

Not familiar with it - can you Post up some Piccies?

Is it properly and securely connected?

 

[rolfw]

Have you set it on the correct satellite, Astra 28.2 and not Astra 19.2?

_http://www.maxpeak.tv/sam.php

 

[Lectrician]

Yep, defo on 28.2 - it works better on the V than the H polarisation.

I have tried it on 3 different installs so far, directly to the coax at the digibox.

I have also tried directly to a dish today, and the quality is higher at around 25-30%, but I must admit I was expecting it to match the sky digibox's signal page.

What sort of readings would you expect on a pro meter?