Re aligning digi dishes

[rtc]

Heres a question for those in the know.<br />Is there an easy way to re-align sly digital dishes ?<br />As I need to move mine while I get some building work done and dont fancy paying out to have it done for me. And since I have fitted many analogue dishes in the past I reckon it cant be that hard.<br />As an aside could someone explain the relevance of the signal strength and signal quality bars in signal test.<br />P.S. Didnt there used to be a hidden engineers menu on there somewhere ?

Cheers

 

[pinkhelmets]

Digidude is the expert here.

If you have fitted analogue then you will probably find this straight forward too. Its best to have a meter, but the signal test screen does help if you dont have a meter. Trouble will be seeing the ** whilst fiddling with dish. You should already be pointing the right direction if you put your dish back up without moving the bracket. Then you can move fractionally to improve sig strength & quality if needed. Thing to remember is that there is a few seconds delay from moving dish to seeing difference on strength meter.

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[digidude]

As long as you got a GOOD view of the ** you can do it without a meter. Firstly try to take the dish off the wall as one peice (just undo the 4 13mm bolts holding it to the wall). If you can put the dish onto the same wall then its already lined up, if not go to the signal test screen (services, 4, 6) and slowly move the dish from east to west. Or get a compass and aim the dish at 28E (152 degrees) then move the dish up and down. As soon as you are on a satellite the lock indicator will change to OK and if you are on the right one you will have the details 07d4 and 0002. If you swing the dish from E-W this will be the first satellite. Now move the dish slightly l/r and up/down to get the bars as high as possible and tighten all the bolts. Keep looking at the bars when tightening cos as you tighten the left nut the dish moves right, you have to keep swaping to keep the bars up.

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[digidude]

the signal strength is as it says, which ideally should be about 3/4 or more, but anything over 1/3 wont cause you any problems. the signal quality is more important. this shows how error free the signal is. this can be affected by kinks in the cable, weather, dish being even 1mm off line, wrong type of cable, allsorts. if you have poor signal quality you can forget watching telly in any weather other than dry.

hope this helps

oh yeah, to access the installers menu, press<br />services, 4, 0, 1, select.

enjoy

 

[Count_Zero]

What use is the installers menu on the digibox. Does it make alignment any easier?.

 

[r.batley]

Hi m8ys easiest way is to go out and buy a satfinder at £16 - £20 from any retailer of this nature when i say this i mean an independant dealer or one man band hell be more help if your nice!!!! <img src="tongue.gif" border="0"> <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

The installer menu is of no more use if the systems up and running<br />Only things there r 4 setting RF output frequancys to avoid co-channeling which is something sky installers no nothing about, or it seems that way. Line voltage to global amps or eyes.

LNB Settings Etc.

New Instalations & few other things.

My advice is keep on trying and be patiant with it <img src="mad.gif" border="0">

Good luck m8

 

[digidude]

Some sly installers know what theyre doing, i just choose to be so rough