setup issues

[holliefabbabe]

right please help guys as spent the last two days trying to get it this to work without joy ,
i have a dm800se clone, works without a issue on a 28.2 sky mini dish , and now are having issues setting up a new dish ( triax 110 ) and motor , mounted on a 10ft pole which is fully plumb , new cable (tx-100 with matching waterproof crimp connectors ) and checked to make sure its fully wired up correctly with no shoddy wiring ,

now when setting up , motor angle is to be set up as latatude which is Latitude: 53.0546°, ive go it as 53° on the motor

dish angle is 29° set up as per sat pointer instructons and satellite instructions.

clear view south to east but no joy

sat box is able to move dish without a issue ,
i have ajusted the dish from a east to west as every dish angle possable with there no skew on the lmb to a 5° both ways

on the box i set up the recption settings as
1 simple and positoner with long and lat entered without luck (iam guessing that this is the correct way )
2 advanced all sats 1 and i guessed lnb33

now on the sat finder i just couldnt get a lock , on anything the snr wich iam guessing is signal was hoping from 0 to 75% regardless , just couldnt find anything , iam guessing it would tell you which sat it is when it gets a lock i tryed the freq that was on it , the predefined one and bbc on thor 0.8 °

please can someone please help , as i cant see what iam doing wrong



i tryed the same with positioner setup to , wihtout any joy

[Mickha]

Hi holliefabbabe,
welcome to the forum.
Do you have a satellite meter?
Does this light up when connected between your cable run and LNB?
Can you check your triax cable on your Sky dish, a spare LNB port, just to test that the cable is working?
Check dishpointer.com to see where your dish should be pointing for 0.8W.

[holliefabbabe]

yes , i have two , a basic one that has a buzzer and a manhatan one that does astra , from those there was nothing

i have had both lengths of cale joined to the one of the shot gun wires for the sky dish to the box , and no issues there , as got picture from sky dish, i also checked cable with a diode test when i did the ends to make sure there was conections and no direct shorts ,
as for where to point , acording to dishpointer its nearly inline with my rear fence so direction is near correct ,

iam wondering if i have not got setting correct on the box

[Mickha]

Can you post some pictures of your dish?
I use a very cheap satellite meter, cost between £5-£6, including post, this has a light, with a needle and tone display.
I know if the LNB, and cable, is working correctly using this, I then tune the meter, using the only control, so that it is midway on the scale, 5/10, this is then that sensitve that immediately I locate any signal, from any satellite, it moves, even though my receiver doesn't recognize any signal.
I then move the dish, rihgt, left, until it raches 10, turn down the senistivity to 5, then continue to fine tune the dish, once this is done I do the same with elevation.
Once I have peaked the signal I scan in channels, on my receiver, and check which satellite I'm on.

[holliefabbabe]

this one is the same, came with a caravan kit , so i guess iam wrong useing the satalite inbuilt one

[Mickha]

The satellite meter just makes it easier, with the inbuilt one you need to find a particular satellite, and ensure you get enough signal for it to register, the meter just makes it slightly easier.
Also forget the elevation markings, on the dish, for 0.8W the dish should be close to vertical, gently adjust the elevation, and angle, of the dish until you get a signal.

[holliefabbabe]

ok ,thankyou
will try tomorrow