- Aug 20, 2007
- 574
- 637
- Funster No
- 128
- MH
- Frankia I7300 BD
- Exp
- since 1997 (many years tugger before then)
We are on a site at Agde, and got all the Brit channels on my Oyster Vision 2 (85 cm dish)...then we moved pitch and the channels all disappeared. This coincided with heavy cloud cover, we could then only access sky news and a few others. Cloud cover came and went..but still no channels.
I altered the skew angle (only a bit) and still nothing, although the signal strength and quality bars were almost full.
I noticed that every time I lowered the dish, and then raised it again, it would always look for the last position. I had it in my head that I wanted to force it to scan again, but couldn't figure out how to do it, the instruction manual leaves a lot to be desired.
Then I had a brainwave....I reversed about 10 foot, on full left hand down lock, stopped..then raised the dish. This forced the system to re-scan having failed to obtain a signal at last position. Result..a perfect picture on all channels.
I then moved back to my original position (give or take a foot), dish up, re-scan, and all channels now being received.
Maybe if I could've forced it to re-scan in it's original position, instead of it always going to last position, I'd have avoided having to move.
I thought I'd be able to force a re-scan by pulling the fuse on the system, which the instruction manual says re-sets the system, but it still went back to last position.
It was never this complicated with my 80cm dish attached to the ladder rack.
Anyway...we missed the England match, and a few other programmes, but all ok now.
regards
Allen
I altered the skew angle (only a bit) and still nothing, although the signal strength and quality bars were almost full.
I noticed that every time I lowered the dish, and then raised it again, it would always look for the last position. I had it in my head that I wanted to force it to scan again, but couldn't figure out how to do it, the instruction manual leaves a lot to be desired.
Then I had a brainwave....I reversed about 10 foot, on full left hand down lock, stopped..then raised the dish. This forced the system to re-scan having failed to obtain a signal at last position. Result..a perfect picture on all channels.
I then moved back to my original position (give or take a foot), dish up, re-scan, and all channels now being received.
Maybe if I could've forced it to re-scan in it's original position, instead of it always going to last position, I'd have avoided having to move.
I thought I'd be able to force a re-scan by pulling the fuse on the system, which the instruction manual says re-sets the system, but it still went back to last position.
It was never this complicated with my 80cm dish attached to the ladder rack.
Anyway...we missed the England match, and a few other programmes, but all ok now.
regards
Allen