Advice Needed Replaced LNB, still no signal quality on Box.

[Terryl]

Hi, thanks for all the replies.
I am indeed in the UK, South Wales infact.

I am going to rerun a new cable anyway but It seems odd that I do not get anything at all. If the dish is out of alignment even slightly, would I still get some 'quality'?

The motor was fed by 36v it looks like - It has been cut off for the last 10 years or so.

At the moment I am physically moving the dish - I under it is not advised but I am just trying to find any that shows some signal at all.

Thanks again.

36 volts?? 90% of the FTA receivers out there can't supply that kind of voltage, not without an add on Vbox, I hope you didn't try to hook the receiver up to this motor.

In your settings you have it set to 18V skew ON, set it to H / V for transponder switching, the will allow the correct switching for the transponder you have selected.


And if your not getting a good "S" signal then something may be wrong with the settings for that LNB, or the LNB is not getting DC power.

 

[Terryl]

One other thing, that receiver is an MPEG2 box, (unless there is a newer model) some of the channels on that satellite (Hotbird 13E) are in MPEG4, you wont get a thing off those channels.

So be sure your looking at a MPEG2 transponder.

Technical Specifications

TUNER
Input Connector F-type IEC 169-24 Female
Frequency Range 950MHz to 2150MHz
Input Impedance 75 Ohm
Signal Level -25 to - 65 dBm
LNB Power & Polarization Vertical: +14V, Horizontal +18V
Current: 600mA Max. with Overload protection
LNB Control 22KHz ± 4KHz, Tone burst A/B and DiSEqC 1.2
22KHz Tone Amplitude 0.6Vpp (±0.2V)
Input Symbol Rate 2~45 Msymbol/sec
FEC Decoder Auto, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8

SYSTEM
Transmission Standard DVB MPEG-2 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Input Data Rate Max 15Mb/s
Aspect Ratio 4:3, 16:9
Video Resolution 720 x 480 NTSC, 720 x 576 PAL
Audio Decoding MPEG Layer L & R
Audio Mode Single channel / Dual Channel/Joint Stereo / Mono
Sampling Rate 32KHz, 44.1KHz, 48KHz, 96KHz