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 settings. Alternatively, you may have a holiday house, caravan, etc where you like to take your decoder to avoid missing out …
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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 …