Problem with my dish

[AnyAirPlane]

Hi All,I have an issue with my dish/motor:, the dish is moving when a satellite is selected, but I am not geting any signal quality.

The motor has a flashing light green/red, which I believe indicates a fault, the motor is a Fortec Star (Usals and 1.2).

Does anybody have any ideas that I can look at and try out???

Thanks.

AAP.

[cornishlen]

Maybe the lnb is faulty,Or has the wind altered the elevation of the dish.

cornishlen.

[passete]

Also try a hard Reset, you must find a tiny hole on the motor

[AnyAirPlane]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for your prompters, I will have a look at both. I have done a reset based on the motor instructions and it is still flashing, but will try again.

Thanks,

AAP.

[passete]

Check also if you don't have short circuit (exemple the lnb cable)

[andy gg]

go to s free to air like BBC World on 13 or 19 East then manually move left or right untill you get a signal.

[koshba]

if 1 light is red and the other green def sounds like motor fault,try holding both buttons on the motor for about 5 seconds see if that makes any difference.

[AnyAirPlane]

Hi All,

Thanks for more resp[onses, I have been through all the suggestions and still no luck.

Hopefully I will get some better weather to get up the ladders for a longer period, to check if still on the arc.

Will report back.

Thanks for the help.

AAP.

[AnyAirPlane]

Good news I have signal!

The dish had moved off the arc somehow, it was well off.

I haven't quite got the signal quality I previously had, I can't now lock onto 26E. There is a little bump in the dish, maybe a bird bash, who knows.

I will now be looking for another dish in the next few months, any recomendations and observations of what others had will be gratefully received and read.

I am looking at about a 1 metre size wise and as light as possible, so probably alluminium.

Thanks,

AAP

[Dark Cloud]

I have a Triax 1.1 meter dish,...cheap as chips. Works a treat, and 26 east is easy here in Lincs.

[AnyAirPlane]

Thanks Dark Cloud, I will look at 1.1m Triax.
I had 26E before this issue at a good level here in Manchester, so have not got things quite back as before. I think it is time to enlarge slightly, I am informed that size matters!

Cheers

AAP.

[BM300]

While you are on 26E try pushing the dish up, right or left slightly.
If the signal improves (your dish declination may have changed by few millimeters).