Please note that the steps have changed slightly from what is below, but the process is more or less the same If you have moved house to one which already has a dish, plugged everything in, but get a ‘No signal, Rainfade’ message, then there is a chance you just need to change a few […]
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Pixellating, Rainfade & No signal
Pixellation on DVB-S (satellite) has a number of causes, though they all relate back to one of two things – low signal levels, or poor quality signals. If your problem is intermittant and appears to be worse in bad weather, you probably have a reception problem, caused by something interfering with the signal, or the […]
LNB L.O. Settings
Something that often throws people when setting up a satellite decoder is what setting to use for the Local Oscillator (L.O.). Freeview approved decoders and some others use a system called ‘blind scan’ which eliminates the need to know any settings, you simply set the decoder to auto search and it will cycle through all […]
Can I use a Sky dish to get Freeview?
99% of the time, the answer to this is yes, you can get the Freeview Satellite service from a Sky dish. Assuming the dish is still aligned correctly, and that the (intact) cabling goes to where you wish to have your Set-Top-Box (STB) it should be fine. The 1% of the time when it might […]