It sounds to me as though you may have an alignment problem. You need
to be absolutely certain that you really are accurately aligned on the
correct satellite before doing anything at all, let alone anything
potentially irretrievable, to the STB.
Firstly, geo-stationary satellites used for broadcasting to the public
orbit only 2-3 degrees apart. Hence the most common fault when
setting up a dish is to 'find' a neighbouring satellite instead of the
one intended.
I suggest that you check all the parameters of the channels that you
can receive against the known channels on 28.2E, as determined from
the Lyngsat page. For example, the one you mention may be Russia
Today, although that was broadcasting in English when I checked just
now. Also, the same channels often broadcast on different sats, so
the presence or absence of a particular channel may not be enough -
it is more the combination of channels present, and their being on the
expected frequencies, symbol rates, and other known characteristics,
that convinces. If you are satisfied that the ones you can see are
indeed from 28.2E rather than a neighbour, then that at least narrows
down the possibilities.
The next point is that what is commonly called a 'satellite' is often
in reality a 'cluster' of several, and this is the case with Eurobird
1/Astra 2A/B/D. The individual satellites in a cluster must orbit
close enough together to be received as one from Earth, but,
obviously, far enough apart to avoid danger of eclipsing each other at
best or colliding at worst. Thus Eurobird 1 is nominally at 28.5E,
but the rest of the cluster, Astra 2A/B/D, nominally at 28.2E, though
of course they cannot all be in the same place either.
Hence it is possible that if dish alignment is almost there but not
quite, you may only be picking up some of the sats in the cluster, but
not all. Again, you may be able to work this out from the combination
of channels that you are receiving. Russia today is on Eurobird 1, so
perhaps the dish is pointing a little east of whither is needs to
point? In that case, you may find that further adjustment of the dish
will yield the missing channels.
I suggest that you thoroughly check out the above first, before
mucking about with the STB.
If however, you're absolutely convinced about the alignment, you
should try entering the details of the first transponder on Astra 2D,
again as listed by Lyngsat, and see what you can find with a manual
scan. Failing that, check out Maplin and the STB manufacturer's
websites for further advice and technical support.
Post by DystopiaThe dish is mounted on a campervan and I have a 63cm off-set dish so
that I can get a signal in the north of Scotland. I had the receiver
from Maplin's about 18 months ago. It was part of a kit contained in a
suitcase but the dish was too small.
I can receive a picture OK but they a foreign programmes. I was
watching a news item, in Russian, about the tragedy of the fire in the
night-club yesterday.
As I said in my previous posting there are pre-sets to various
satellite's, including the ones at 19.2E and 28.2E but a scan does not
find the Freesat programmes. It did at one time when I selected the
'New Satellite' option but I think the settings on the set-up screens
that I have displayed at http://satellite.webhop.org were accidentally
changed.
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