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Hi Forum,

Got a problem with satellite reception, I have a digi Sky box , a 80 cm dish on roof and I get perfect reception of all freesat programmes,Recently I bought another dish ( 100 cm) and a universal lmb to use with my campervan,so I got the sky box connected it up to the new dish ( which is on a tripod on the patio) switched on the tv and sure enough after I had roughly aligned it with a meter the setup screen said I had a signal both bars were about 75 percent, however I cannot get any channels as sometimes it says no default transponder and other times it says no signal being received although the setup screen shows a signal, also I notice that there is no network id (000)and also no transport stream ??? What am I doing wrong !! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Billy10[

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If the satelite is pointed in the correct direction it's gotta be something else.

If the 'lmb' is that thingy that points at the dish makes sure it's got a low number on it and that it works.

The lower the number the more powerful and less interference.

They do get water inside and sometimes just give up and die.

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Assuming as above that its pointing at the right place, the LNB may have to be skewed to receive the proper signal.  By skewed I mean turing it 45 deg (I think) I don't know the exact number of degrees as my LNB has a arrow maked on it just for this.

The next step is to do a full satellite and chanal scan and see what you get.

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If I had somewhere with a dish already set up I would align the second dish by eye rather than with a satfinder.

Try unplugging the digibox counting to ten and reconnecting they sometimes lock up and fail to display subsequent changes in signal strength/quality. You should be able to get well beyound 75% strength with 100 cms andwhere in mainland France. Bigger dishers are harder to align.

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