Satellite finders - for help with aligning a dish

I am sure there is a cheap little device which you can lock onto Sky and other satelites to enable a fix. I have a dish in france and a tuner just to pick up the free to air transmissions but it has been moved and my tuner picks up no signal.

My neighbour gets Sky just 1000 Metres away so I know there is a signal. The tuner is new and worked great here.

How big is your satellite? It'll have to be around 1m to pick up sky out in Erding I'm pretty sure.

You can buy satellite finders from Conrad or Hornbach. They cost about 15 euros.

Read His post... The system is in france..

Clive... What receicer is it? That pace 2200/2500 ?

It could be the Tuner that is failing in the box.. Have you checked the box on a know working dish?

G

Grinner to the rescue! Hurrah!

Are sat trackers only 15 quid? My woman has got this really stupid idea in her head that I might consider going with her, her mum and her sister to visit her aunt in some awful village in the Eifel at xmas. Obviously, that idea is simply laughable...but bearable perhpas with TV. Aunt has a dish, but obviously she has made that common German error of pointing towards a crap Gerry satellite rather than a proper one with Football first on it; so if I buy a 15 quid sat tracker, can I fiddle about with the dish and get Sky Sports?
(providing I take a digibox with me of course)

Not far from me. 120cm dish, 0.3 impedence bit in the middle of the dish, bingo. I even receive during rain, etc etc.

PM me if you want the satellite mans no. in Langenbach (about 15km from Erding)

@ D-R..

I have a spare spectrum analizer you can borrow... Eifel?? Where is that?

@ Canary man... 1.2m is a bit ott but then again the chap only seeing €€€€s when you called!

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Grinner, the Eifel, or Eiffel, or god knows how they spell it, is a weird weird place near Düsseldorf. The place my woman wants me to go to is near Gerolstein, like that gross salty water you can buy. If I agree to go, (which would take some SERIOUS convincing, but she is a girl) I'll be taking you up on that analyzer techy doodah thang. Wicked. No way I'm missing boxing day footy.

Nope. He is excellent and took down my last installation for free. I had problems with an 84cm dish during cloudy weather so he put in a 120cm dish, took the old dish back in PX plus the lnb when he put in a 0.3 instead. He is excellent but he does not speak English so it was fun with him on the roof with a walkie-talkie and me in front of the telly trying to give him instructions.

Since I had the 120cm dish installed I receive signals in all but thunderstorms.

1,2m dish and you loose it in thunder storms...

So you paid someone to install a dish and they didnt have the test equipment to set it up??

What was his name?? John Wayne?

Hi Grinner

I'm sorry I didn't get back to yesterday but re the satelite system in France, I cant recall the name of the receiver but I bought from Saturn tried it in place of my Sky box and it worked great on all of the free to air channels, but when I tried the dish (1.2M) it just displayed no signal even though it is pre-programed with Astra, Hotbird etc and auto scans.

Clive

You probably ought to take it down during thunderstorms anyway. A 120cm dish pulls over 1.5tonnes of twisting force on a mounting pole in a brisk force 7 wind. Very few standard roof mounts or poles can handle such a force (being certified to 100cm of dish and about 1 tonne of twisting moment). Some people are even foolish enough to install on the roof pole originally intended for terrestrial antennae. Notwithstanding the fact that the dish MUST be grounded to equalise the house potential and avoid actually attracting lightning to your building. Just hope your (and your installers) insurance is paid up and comprehensive.

drive west from Düsseldorf/Cologne . bordering Belgium really. The Wehrmacht trudged along this route in '40, i believe.