Ziggy
12-09-2010, 05:58 PM
Hi everyone, sorry Ive not posted for ages but basically I gave up on the hobby about 2 years ago. I started in about 2004 and joined 3 forums, not even sure if Im allowed to name them but they were Sxxdxxxz, Pxpxxxns and Txx-cxxxxx Dxx. Dxxxz went down or it was always having trouble and as far as I can remember Satpimps sprung from their ashes but by then I was losing interest mainly the wife nagging to get a sly box as its easier so thats the road I took.
Yesterday I thought Id start up the old Samsung 9500 DSR and low and behold its still working ok. I fitted a new 1 metre dish and invacom 0.3 lnb about two years ago.
I went outside, attatched my sat meter and its still pretty good, just needed a little tweaking to get full strength again. I wiped all the channels from the box and did a rescan, just 3 birds, 28 east 19 east and 13 east, only fta. Now my problem is its only pulling in say 120 channels from 28 east, my brother pulls in 300 or so on his system and his daughter is pulling in over 300 from a £49 job from ALDI, dish lnb and receiver all included.
Of the channels its pulled in about half are pulling full signal strength and the picture is perfect but on other channels like the shopping channels etc my signal strength is either full up one second then rock bottom the next second, up down up down continuesly, this in turn either cracks up my pictures or wont even show them, its exactly the same on all 3 birds. There is nothing in the way of the dish Ive double checked.
Ive checked all the connectors and they seem ok, clean and dry, ive had them taped up so no water got in the cables. There are no joints anywhere either.
What would cause it to have full strength on bbc, itv, channel 4 etc but then hardly anything on other channels? Is it that the box is now outdated and not pulling in the missing channels? If so then why the signal strength jumping up and down on other channels, like I say the signal strength is static and high on all three birds but only on about half of the channels.
Im assumming I have two choices, get a new box or be happy with what Ive got.
If anyone can give a rusty brain like mine a few pointers I would be very grateful.
Regards Ziggy.
Yesterday I thought Id start up the old Samsung 9500 DSR and low and behold its still working ok. I fitted a new 1 metre dish and invacom 0.3 lnb about two years ago.
I went outside, attatched my sat meter and its still pretty good, just needed a little tweaking to get full strength again. I wiped all the channels from the box and did a rescan, just 3 birds, 28 east 19 east and 13 east, only fta. Now my problem is its only pulling in say 120 channels from 28 east, my brother pulls in 300 or so on his system and his daughter is pulling in over 300 from a £49 job from ALDI, dish lnb and receiver all included.
Of the channels its pulled in about half are pulling full signal strength and the picture is perfect but on other channels like the shopping channels etc my signal strength is either full up one second then rock bottom the next second, up down up down continuesly, this in turn either cracks up my pictures or wont even show them, its exactly the same on all 3 birds. There is nothing in the way of the dish Ive double checked.
Ive checked all the connectors and they seem ok, clean and dry, ive had them taped up so no water got in the cables. There are no joints anywhere either.
What would cause it to have full strength on bbc, itv, channel 4 etc but then hardly anything on other channels? Is it that the box is now outdated and not pulling in the missing channels? If so then why the signal strength jumping up and down on other channels, like I say the signal strength is static and high on all three birds but only on about half of the channels.
Im assumming I have two choices, get a new box or be happy with what Ive got.
If anyone can give a rusty brain like mine a few pointers I would be very grateful.
Regards Ziggy.