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You cant just roughly aim a dish , it is a very precise thing. Have you aligned it with a satellite meter ?
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no i was thinking of getting one if i cant work it out as that would definatly tell me if there is a signal wouldnt it?
Basically since our houses are next to each other i took a magnetic compass and took the reading of the dish on my parents then got the degrees elevation and the lnb degrees so i would think it would be pretty close at the very least get a week signal but the iq box under testing shows no signal what so ever and there should be a bar from red to green showing the signal strength. but as i said i am new to this so my assumtions could be totally off
1 degree off left/ right/ up/ down and u get nuttin.
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best thing (or easiest) would be to put dual lnb on your dads dish and run a cable accross the yard to your place..... Might not be the best method but would get u outa trouble til you align your dish properly
It can be very frustrating aligning your first dish... Get a meter and turn it down so you can't hear the buzzing. Then point the dish north. Move dish up and down. If you don't hear a buzzing then move a fracker anti clockwise and try again.. When you hear buzzing try and get full meter signal, then turn down meter till half way and try and align to get full meter again so you are fine tuning. Check you IQ, if you have signal you have right satellite, if not try again for the next satellite. Buy you sat meter from jaycar for $40.. Good luck
You can pick up a sat meter for near nothing on Ebay ( $20 ).
Based on what you have said , your dish is not aligned. As Farmsky said , one degree out and you get nothing. Its not as easy as you think.
If you are prepared to buy a sat meter I am sure we can talk you through the process of finding the satellite.
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Thanks Everyone, i think thatsa a plan, i will get a sat meter and have a crack at finding it. Will let you know how i go
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in reference to the above issue. if the situation was a hard cabled foxtel in the house and an extra box was supplied by foxtel but rather running more cables instead doing a satellite set up at the granny flat would it work with the extra box they supply.
we have the above problem
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