fortec star help required

[spikebaby]

hi all
got the 69.99 package from maplins with a duel lnb, all set up but getting no signal, can somebody help with the settings please

ie.
dish positioning numbers on side of dish bracket ranging from 30-90
positioning of the lnb put it at an angle of 10deg as said in instructions

sat meter doesnt pick up any signal for the satalittes .

also set up ...is it plug and play after scanning, it will scan but wont give any signal ..

there are losads of setting in the menu but not quite sure about the correct ones after playing now should i set to factory default...and retry



now i'm not daft but reckon that no signal is my error ( dish or lnb positioning) reckon dish any easy option please thanks

[Robbo]

Which satellite are you after?

Go to the FAQs section and find one of the dishpointers to get the corrrect settings for your dish. Pick the correct satellite in the setup and then adjust the dish for max quality on a known good transponder.

If it is the 90cm dish you have, it is quite a good one, so you shouldn't have a problem.

Robbo

[spikebaby]

Originally Posted by robbo71

Which satellite are you after?

Go to the FAQs section and find one of the dishpointers to get the corrrect settings for your dish. Pick the correct satellite in the setup and then adjust the dish for max quality on a known good transponder.

If it is the 90cm dish you have, it is quite a good one, so you shouldn't have a problem.

Robbo

justastra and hotbird

[Robbo]

Ah, right, it is a monoblock LNB that you have. I contains two LNBs spaced apart by 6 degrees. When looking at the front of the LNBs, as in the picture below, the Astra 19E one is on the right, the Hotbird 13E one on the left.

The switch inside normally defaults to one of the positions, the manual should say which one. Whichever one it is, put that at the dish focus, and align the dish for best quality on the receiver for that satellite. Then the monoblock has to be twisted round a bit to get a signal on the other satellite.
The Hotbird LNB has to end up lower than the Astra19E one.

The switch in monoblocks nomally defaults to Hotbird if I rembember correctly.


When you have the focus LNB setup, you will have to setup the receiver to use Diseqc1.0 switching to switch between the two LNBs. One should be set to position 1 or A, the other to position 2 or B.