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Bass Culture – 47 minutes ago »
Would it be worth me noting all the missing channels also?
Yes please.
Or check them against this list:
http://www.lyngsat.com/Astra-2E-2F-2G.html
And let us know are the missing ones all marked with a ‘V’ in the first column.
Barry – 35 minutes ago »
LNB – Low Noise Block
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-noise_block_downconverter
I have just reset a HDR 1000S using postcode CH2 and all channels you are having difficulty with are present and viewable.
I’ll give this a go this evening and cross my fingers. I guess there’s an easily found option to reset/re-tune the box in settings somewhere, is there?
Thanks
REPASSAC – 29 minutes ago »
Bass Culture – 47 minutes ago »
Would it be worth me noting all the missing channels also?
Yes please.
Or check them against this list:
http://www.lyngsat.com/Astra-2E-2F-2G.html
And let us know are the missing ones all marked with a ‘V’ in the first column.
Thanks. I’ll try Barry’s fix first of all and, if this doesn’t work, return with a list of non-working channels.
Many thanks
Bass Culture – 1 hour ago »
P.S. What’s a LNB? I keep seeing the acronym but have no idea what it stands for.
How it works.
http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/lnb.htm
It will explain why the interest in transponder polarisation.
TBH I have never come across a situation where the box reports a good signal strength and quality and the specific channel isn’t viewable.
Do you still have your Sky box ?
Okay, folks; I assume one of you good people on the Humax end of things reset something or pressed a button or something because – after a couple of months of selective amnesia – I turned on the box with a view to resetting it with a CH2 postcode and all channels are present and correct. At least all the ones of the very many I’ve tried so far are. Whoever did whatever they did – thank you. One much happier punter.
BC
Bass Culture – 1 hour ago »
Okay, folks; I assume one of you good people on the Humax end of things reset something or pressed a button
There is nobody here (as far as I know) from the “Humax end of things” so that isn’t the explanation.
Martin Liddle – 9 hours ago »
Bass Culture – 1 hour ago »
Okay, folks; I assume one of you good people on the Humax end of things reset something or pressed a button
There is nobody here (as far as I know) from the “Humax end of things” so that isn’t the explanation.
Certainly not posting in this thread
Barry – 49 minutes ago »
Martin Liddle – 9 hours ago »
Bass Culture – 1 hour ago »
Okay, folks; I assume one of you good people on the Humax end of things reset something or pressed a button
There is nobody here (as far as I know) from the “Humax end of things” so that isn’t the explanation.
Certainly not posting in this thread
That’s genuinely bizarre then! So, it may be nothing more than coincidence but, after 8 weeks of consistently not being able to receive a significant number of TV channels and radio stations in a range of different weather conditions, the box ‘repairs’ itself on the same day I post this thread on this Forum. That appears to be what’s happened!
I have similar problems before and after renewing the dish because of rust. Its aligned using a point programme based on my location and the use of a signal strength meter. BBC channels seem to fall in and out and the rest remain robust I came out of freesat and tuned manually, and all the channels registered, worked on reengaging freesat and then dropped out again. • Make sure that the antenna setting in the menu is correct it says in the instruction book. Er where is the “Menu” and what antenna setting. Those words do not appear anywhere else in the instruction book which has no proper command/menu tree. Im sure I can fix it, but the lack of technical information in the manual is very frustrating.
DougN – 17 hours ago »
I have similar problems before and after renewing the dish because of rust. Its aligned using a point programme based on my location and the use of a signal strength meter. BBC channels seem to fall in and out and the rest remain robust I came out of freesat and tuned manually, and all the channels registered, worked on reengaging freesat and then dropped out again. • Make sure that the antenna setting in the menu is correct it says in the instruction book. Er where is the “Menu” and what antenna setting. Those words do not appear anywhere else in the instruction book which has no proper command/menu tree. Im sure I can fix it, but the lack of technical information in the manual is very frustrating.
If you’ve got a freetime box previously setup then try some fine tuning using the Humax signal info menu.
My low tech method is just to move the dish until I pickup a BBC (or what ever channel you prefer) and then go to the Freesat signal condition (strength/quality) menu and do some fine tuning using other channels too. I prefer to use my Freesat TV for that as it’s got a better menu than the Humax and it allows me to change channel within the menu.
Remember to add the appropriate LNB skew too.
OK I’ve done all the antenna tweaking that you describe, but where in the menu tree do I find any tuning facility? I only have a Human box in one room and a Samsung in the other room (The one which was discontinued because they couldn’t fix the HDMI missing sound bug)
DougN – 12 minutes ago »
OK I’ve done all the antenna tweaking that you describe, but where in the menu tree do I find any tuning facility? I only have a Human box in one room and a Samsung in the other room (The one which was discontinued because they couldn’t fix the HDMI missing sound bug)
Tune to a channel, settings – system information – signal info .
Strength and quality for the tuned channel shown for both tuners. Full blue bar shows 100%. All my UK spot transponders show 100/100.
If you make any dish adjustments wait 30 sec or so for the tuners to respond to the alignment adjustment.
After adjusting the dish and locking of get someone to apply slight pressure to left and right side of the dish. If the quality falls for both you have correct azimuth. If it improves one way then you have to very slightly nudge the dish that way.
Repeat top and bottom to check elevation.
Repeat until you get it spot on.
Sorry thought the signal info page was quite easy to find.
Good fine tuning advice from Graham, I’m not in the UK and with a small dish and universal LNB (non-sky dish) and get 100% & 100% on all the main channels. Had a massive downpour the other day and strength went down to 80-90% which I thought was pretty good.
When adjusting the dish only move it by a minuscule amount and be careful when you’re finished to tighten each nut half a turn at a time or you might move the dish.
Thanks a lot ….that should fix it
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