Skybox F3 receiver & others, why doesn't it allow entering a FREQ TP ?

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North American question, I guess. I have a SkyBox F3 receiver. I tried to lock on to SES 2 at 87.0W. I could not see the freq & TP on my menu to select. Any will do for practice, but 3737 V at TP 2 is listed on Lynsat.com

Being new to this, (please forgive a newbie) why doesn't the Skybox menu list have the freq match the Lyngsat.com information? I wish the receiver would allow me to enter a freq manually, but it doesn't. I am missing a concept here.

Do I have the wrong receiver or dish?

I do have a strong signal on a sat finder. 20+ channels appeared on the scan, but nothing with a good signal. Not even a scrambled. Half radio and half tv channels reported.

My receiver is new Skybox F3. Dish Network DS-1005 Dish 1000.2 Triple LNB HDTV is the dish.

Do I have the wrong dish for FTA or the wrong LNB? Thank you for the comments. Regards john
 
lyngsat always lists c band freqs first,you have to scroll down to see the ku band section which will start with freqs 11xxx
You answered your own question when you said you have the wrong dish/lnb for fta.
Normally with a receiver that doesn't have a sat in the list you would manually add the sat to the list and do a blindscan when properly aimed.I don't have an f3 so I don't know it's menu choices for setups.
 
Thanks for the reply. I will swap out the dish and go with a Ku band dish setup and see where this goes from here. I appreciate the ideas. Regards
 
people usually start out with a fixed dish first,then go motorized.
Tough working outside this time of year.
 
Well, it is 25 degrees and snow on the roof, so it can be challenging to check position and adjustments. My gutter is getting smashed a bit.

Actually, I have the dish mounted to a large plywood section on the patio, easy to adjust and monitor before it's final home on the roof. The dish spent some time in the living room doing bench tests until the Mrs got a little crabby on the project. Anyway, once it was mechanically working on the bench tests, it moved to the patio held down with bricks. Very easy to check the sat finder, watch the green light for confirming the motor found something. Watch it move for sat. Recently it is located 87w ses2, we think. 18 channels picked up but no signal strong.

No complaint against the dish vendor who sold me the Dish Network DS-1005 Dish 1000.2 Triple LNB HDTV. I attribute it to newbie skills. I did think I mentioned my goal was FTA satellite channels, but I don't think this dish will work.

Regardless, I am off looking for a C or Ku band dish with a single LNB pickup. 36-30" is an ok size for me. 8 foot ones would hard to move into the family room for bench testing.

As always, I appreciate your comments and suggests on what dish maker / seller vendor recommended. I am using a Skybox F3 receiver. Well, attempting to use the F3.

Regards john, chicago
 
Well, it is 25 degrees and snow on the roof, so it can be challenging to check position and adjustments. My gutter is getting smashed a bit.

Actually, I have the dish mounted to a large plywood section on the patio, easy to adjust and monitor before it's final home on the roof. The dish spent some time in the living room doing bench tests until the Mrs got a little crabby on the project. Anyway, once it was mechanically working on the bench tests, it moved to the patio held down with bricks. Very easy to check the sat finder, watch the green light for confirming the motor found something. Watch it move for sat. Recently it is located 87w ses2, we think. 18 channels picked up but no signal strong.

No complaint against the dish vendor who sold me the Dish Network DS-1005 Dish 1000.2 Triple LNB HDTV. I attribute it to newbie skills. I did think I mentioned my goal was FTA satellite channels, but I don't think this dish will work.

Regardless, I am off looking for a C or Ku band dish with a single LNB pickup. 36-30" is an ok size for me. 8 foot ones would hard to move into the family room for bench testing.
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I have a 30 inch fta dish and it works good im new in this fta things but at least it works in part lol im pointing to 110 W but im only getting 39 channels some of them work and some doesnt so im trying to figure out what is wrong i need to get more channels.

But for you get at least a 30 INCH dish ;) Good Luck
 
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