VAST SET-UP NOTHING I DO WILL MAKE IT WORK, HELP!

briggspc · Senior Member

RE: VAST SET-UP NOTHING I DO WILL MAKE IT WORK, HELP!

KFT · Guru

G'day Peter, (nice to know your real name so much more gentlemanly)

have you got your new satfinder yet?

Where are you at the moment? I may have been able to get one to you much quicker then this is taking.

frank

briggspc · Senior Member

KFT wrote:
G'day Peter, (nice to know your real name so much more gentlemanly)

have you got your new satfinder yet?

Where are you at the moment? I may have been able to get one to you much quicker then this is taking.

frank

No not here yet, maybe Friday and also have 20 metres of cable coming as well so I will cover 2 things at once, at present am at a place called Kurrimine Beach and should be here till November as the fishing is too good to leave.

Peter

KFT · Guru

you can stay until November?

our grandkids would drag us home well before then. we have been away 3 months and they are begging for us to come home.

maybe we spoil them a bit

enjoy your fishing

frank

briggspc · Senior Member

KFT wrote:
you can stay until November?

our grandkids would drag us home well before then. we have been away 3 months and they are begging for us to come home.

maybe we spoil them a bit

enjoy your fishing

frank

Yes they want to do that don't they, after being on the road for over 2 years we are lucky they are not far away at this time and will have one coming to see use tomorrow and more coming school holidays September so we are blessed.

Peter

Bello · Veteran Member

G'day, I have not read all the posts, but have you got the LNB suitable for the Vast box. Cost me $37 for the new one. Bought it with the box and have had no troubles.

briggspc · Senior Member

Bello wrote:
G'day, I have not read all the posts, but have you got the LNB suitable for the Vast box. Cost me $37 for the new one. Bought it with the box and have had no troubles.

Yes

Tasman · Member

Looking at all your posts, your equipment seems to be fine. So the odds are that you are looking at the wrong satellite. You are probably looking at B3 which I found to have a stronger signal than C1. C1 is 1 degree lower and 10 degrees to the right. Or you could be on PAS8 in which case you have to move up 2 and move 20 to the left. Your direction should be ±30east of due north. Your elevation should be ±65 and your LNB should be on -15. If you have an superduper sat finder coming which can tell what sat you are on, you should be home and hosed. Please note that trees and palms will interfere with the signal as well, most signals come in at ±45 to the angle of the dish, that is if your dish is up right at 90 then the signal will come in at 45 some people think that the dish is actually looking at the sat which is not the case the signal bounces at an angel off the dish onto the LNB

Basil

briggspc · Senior Member

Tasman wrote:
Looking at all your posts, your equipment seems to be fine. So the odds are that you are looking at the wrong satellite. You are probably looking at B3 which I found to have a stronger signal than C1. C1 is 1 degree lower and 10 degrees to the right. Or you could be on PAS8 in which case you have to move up 2 and move 20 to the left. Your direction should be ±30east of due north. Your elevation should be ±65 and your LNB should be on -15. If you have an superduper sat finder coming which can tell what sat you are on, you should be home and hosed. Please note that trees and palms will interfere with the signal as well, most signals come in at ±45 to the angle of the dish, that is if your dish is up right at 90 then the signal will come in at 45 some people think that the dish is actually looking at the sat which is not the case the signal bounces at an angel off the dish onto the LNB
Basil

Thanks for that Basil, I got my super-duper sat finder yesterday and yes I was spot on the satellite, I was standing next to my dish watching FTA programmes on my finder, WOW!

But nothing on my set box yet, maybe the cable is not good after all, will have to wait till my new cable gets here.

Peter

Tasman · Member

If you have one of those digi-madoos where you can see the prorgams than you maybe able to connect it via the USB cable to your computer or TV and watch it that way
Basil

briggspc · Senior Member

Well I would like to thank AL-H, Alan and all those others that tried to help me with my problem, reading my post you would see the dilemma I was in, meter tests every thing ok, new plugs on cable, multi meter said all ok, box was fixed, Dish was ok, it all ended up as Ai and Alan said , A NEW CABLE fixed it all would you believe and now very happy, even after the old cable working on my TV but AL-H had that covered.

Thanks again

Peter biggrin

KFT · Guru

glad to see you have been able to get it sorted out and can now enjoy watching Alice springs and mount Isa advertising. LOL

frank

AL H · Veteran Member

briggspc wrote:
Well I would like to thank AL-H, Alan and all those others that tried to help me with my problem, reading my post you would see the dilemma I was in, meter tests every thing ok, new plugs on cable, multi meter said all ok, box was fixed, Dish was ok, it all ended up as Ai and Alan said , A NEW CABLE fixed it all would you believe and now very happy, even after the old cable working on my TV but AL-H had that covered.

Thanks again

Peter

Good to hear Pete. smile