setting up sattellite dish

[brit]

Can anyone recomend somebody to come and align our satellite dish( have got a digi box ect) as cannot find english tv only bbc world news , which is a bit boring after a while, preferably somebody close to St Savin in the Vienne region 86  PLEASE

[Martin963]

I can't recommend anyone as it's not our area,  but it might be

worth persevering a bit longer.  I would surmise that you've found

Hotbird at 13 deg E,  so standing behind your dish (ie north of

it!) you need to swing it round a bit to the left (eastwards) - the LNB

needs to swing round no more than 15 cms.  In addition you need to

tip the dish downwards so that the LNB drops about 2 cms (no

more).   Then have another search in that vicinity.

Make a note of the current position (scratch the positions on the

mounting or use a chinagraph pencil so that you can get back to at

least one programme!.

Of course I may be wrong - I'm only guessing from your description.

Is it a skybox (I ask because if it is I'm wondering how it found BBC World,  or did you tell it what freq to look on...?)

Some of the supermarkets offer a sat install service,  it's been

mentioned elsewhere on this section,  and as long as you make it

clear which satellite you're after (Astra 2 at 28 deg E presumably)

they are probably as good as any.

[cooperlola]

Also a local "Pulsat" (franchise) shop will probably be able to help you.

[Patf]

There's an english language paper called French News which contains adverts for various services including satellite dish tuning etc. Pat.

[dogwood]

Hi Brit

I agree with Martin. I think his advice is spot on.

The only thing I would add is ( Hope im not stating the obvious) Do this in Set Up whilst watching signal strength. You will probably be unable just to watch for a picture coming in, as this takes some time and if you are fiddling with the dish whilst watching you could possably miss the saterlite.

I know this because that is how I tried to do it at first [blink]

Good luck. Not that you are missing much on TV anyway [:D]

Dogwood

 

 

[Panda]

Hi Brit

We used to live near you (recently moved) and when we had a problem with the signal for our satellite we went to the TV aerial shop near the Intermarche in Chauvigny (in the row of shops before the supermarket), I think they are called Pro something or other, they are franchised so you may have one in St Savin.  A young man came along with his sat finder and fiddled for about 2 minutes until we told him we had the right signal strngth etc as described by dogwood.  It didn't cost much (certainly a lot less than brits in french news will charge).  We never had another problem with it after that.

good luck

Panda