Tezza
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Good evening
Please be patient, longish story
When we bought our current van we asked the good folk at Vanbitz to reinstall our Oyster Caro digital sat system and to wire in for the sky box as well as our FTA box.
It worked but we had problems at the time and were told it's because the box was set to double feed rather than single. (what ever that meant)
Anyway found out about the double/single feed and changed it over but whilst away at Easter we still had issues where the box said receiving no signal, couldn't understand and didn't have the knowledge to delve into it, so put it away and used FTA instead.
Then yesterday I realised we are away in two week and the finale of Game of Thrones is on, so have to take the box, it's the only thing I watch and don't intend to wait a week to see it, so we changed the box in the house today to single feed, box initialised and we were good to plug into the van.
Plugged it in, same message, receiving no signal, as before tried both feeds Vanbitz put in on the FTA box and both worked so no issues there, we then looked up on intaweb and found we had to change the frequency settings, so we took a deep breath and did it, success, we had the sky prom page, but no channels.
We dropped the dish and restarted it, low and behold we then had channels except for bbc2 and a few others, then we switched the TV to the FTA box to check all was OK there, which it was, then switched back to the sky channel where we had now lost every channel we had earlier but gained the ones we lost BBC2 etc.
The neighbour has a satellite meter and said our dish is only reading 32% signal strength, and by the time we had given up, we had the original channels back and lost BBC2 again, so frustrating I have no idea what is going on or why it's happening, so much for plug and play type of thing.
Can anyone shed any light on what might be my issue.
also, my magic eye isn't working, it was before, but I'll google that now to see if I have not turned something on or what ever might need to be done.
Apologies for the long mail, think I got all the details in.
Oh, my FTA box was set to look for frequency 10.773 symbol rate of 22 so changed it to the frequency 11.778 and symbol rate of 27.5 as per the sky recommendation.
Tezza
Please be patient, longish story
When we bought our current van we asked the good folk at Vanbitz to reinstall our Oyster Caro digital sat system and to wire in for the sky box as well as our FTA box.
It worked but we had problems at the time and were told it's because the box was set to double feed rather than single. (what ever that meant)
Anyway found out about the double/single feed and changed it over but whilst away at Easter we still had issues where the box said receiving no signal, couldn't understand and didn't have the knowledge to delve into it, so put it away and used FTA instead.
Then yesterday I realised we are away in two week and the finale of Game of Thrones is on, so have to take the box, it's the only thing I watch and don't intend to wait a week to see it, so we changed the box in the house today to single feed, box initialised and we were good to plug into the van.
Plugged it in, same message, receiving no signal, as before tried both feeds Vanbitz put in on the FTA box and both worked so no issues there, we then looked up on intaweb and found we had to change the frequency settings, so we took a deep breath and did it, success, we had the sky prom page, but no channels.
We dropped the dish and restarted it, low and behold we then had channels except for bbc2 and a few others, then we switched the TV to the FTA box to check all was OK there, which it was, then switched back to the sky channel where we had now lost every channel we had earlier but gained the ones we lost BBC2 etc.
The neighbour has a satellite meter and said our dish is only reading 32% signal strength, and by the time we had given up, we had the original channels back and lost BBC2 again, so frustrating I have no idea what is going on or why it's happening, so much for plug and play type of thing.
Can anyone shed any light on what might be my issue.
also, my magic eye isn't working, it was before, but I'll google that now to see if I have not turned something on or what ever might need to be done.
Apologies for the long mail, think I got all the details in.
Oh, my FTA box was set to look for frequency 10.773 symbol rate of 22 so changed it to the frequency 11.778 and symbol rate of 27.5 as per the sky recommendation.
Tezza