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my sat dish wont work at home at all, tried for 2 hours but works great on site, took about an hour at first but its down to about 10mins now, they can be very fiddly.

mike

The astra satellite that sky and freesat use is far to the east - 28 degrees.  Try starting your sweep with the dish from east to south.  If there is something blocking the signal then you can be there forever.  If you track to the wrong satellite then there will be a signal showing but you wont get a lock.  You the have to reset the box by switching it off and on.

In the end I bought a meter that identifies the satellite signal is from the correct satellite.  Makes setting up a doddle but not the cheapest option.

Brian 

Linky  satelliteforcaravans.

Never have a problem!! hubby leaves it to me to set up i have tv and sky controls go outside  have the wind open and sorted in minutes!! i have more patients than hubby (or is that the male population!!  oops started something now!!) i sue the meter and check out other dishes in the area,

once the signal found its just very slight movemnt. Some times turn the machine off and wait a minute then turn back on again as  the signal freezes sometime and you could be moving it around thinking nothing happening.

As we take our home sky box we have connected connectors(left that to hubby!!) so that they push in and out of the box at the back as keep screwing everytime could damage the coax all the time. Now i just pull the connector at home and push in in the van makes it easier.

Hi jimmn.

              I like the idea of  using a spirit level bubble, although the angele is different for every location, but as a reference for a rough guide then it would be handy. Of course if you always go back to camp within the same area, say 50 miles radias, then your method will alway be spot on, I notice some of the Sky dish's come with a small clip on spirit level, mounted on the lnb arm.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/de.sullivan/bearings.htm