Satellite Meter with Sky HD

[Roman]

Hi Guys,

I wonder if anyone can shed some light on what's going on here. I have recently used a Digisat Pro Satellite meter to help me align my dish with 3 LNBs (with a considerable amount of help from this forum - I hasten to add!). The meter worked straight out of the box with no adjustments required.

Feeling proud with my success, a friend of mine recently asked me to help realign his Sky dish (he has Sky HD) as strong winds had knocked it out of position. However, on connecting the Digisat Pro meter it seemed to throw a bit of a wobbler. The display appeared to pulse on and off at regular intervals and it was impossible to determine any kind of signal reading. At first I thought the meter was broken. However, after playing around at random with some settings I found that it would work if I adjusted a setting in the 22KHz Mode menu. The menu has settings of 'Receiver', 'Off', 'On' and 'Toggle', the default being 'Receiver'. By switching the mode to 'Off' the meter works fine.

Being new to this I'm still not particularly clued up on all the terminology and rationale behind how things work. So if anyone can explain why I needed to make this adjustment for the Sky HD system, but not my own Phoenix Apollo Receiver with Inverto LNBs I'd much appreciate it.

In any case my friend is happy because his dish is now aligned again without a call to Sky.

Cheers, Roman

[BGonaSTICK]

Strange. Pretty impressive that you figured out what was causing it though!

It's not to do with the 'HD'ness of the signal, but obviously a peculiarity of the Sky HD box.

Good that you scored some dish-alignment kudos too.