Problems in South of France

[cgw59]

Hi,
I hope someone can help me, I have just returned from my holiday home in south of France At Biot Antibes where I have an 80cm dish and a cheap Fortec Star box from maplin. I have used a compass to get me what I hoped was astra2 and used a Fringe sat finder to tune it in. I have a signal strength of 90%-95% and a quality of 75- 80% on both Astra and Eurobird, the problem is when I go to the epg and select any of the channels that are from the uk all I get is the message "no signal", I can receive countless numbers of foriegn channels from arab countries, Madrid tv, poland france and loads of german channels, I have checked the signal on what I assume is one of the normal transponders for a sky box i.e. 11778 27500 etc and have a signal that is perfect. but I cannot figure out how to set or check the fec on the box, what am I missing, I am back home now in N.Ireland but will be going again next month and would really like to get it right. Thanks for any hgelp you can give. cgw59

 

[rolfw]

You are on the wrong satellite, looks like Astra 19.2 East, so you need to move the dish futher to the East and down a bit.

 

[cgw59]

Hi Rolf,
Thanks for your reply I will try that next visit, approx how much down would you suggest ?

 

[PaulR]

Just try nudge, nudge, nudge eastwards first. This should get you in roughly the right position and then lower it just a touch. You will probably find the signal meter will be a good friend here!

 

[satelliteman]

2.8° to be exact. I'd be inclined to drop the dish elevation a tad first then adjust the azimuth Easterly. Either way the elevation adjustment won't be a large movement, just a touch as mentioned by paulR.