ARCON "MULTI" Portable Satellite Dish

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ARCON "MULTI" Portable Satellite Dish Review

Locating the SKY BROADCASTING satellite At the time of writing all SKY broadcasts are transmitted from the Astra satellites situated at 28.2° east of south. There are other satellites as well of course and it’s easy to confuse one satellite for another. The Astra satellite at 19.2° East is often confused for the “SKY” one. It has a powerful signal and can produce a strong “strength” and “quality” level on the SKY signal test screen. However, conveniently, the “SKY” satellite is the one to be found furthest to the east and the best way to locate it is as follows: 1. Set up and switch on the TV and the digibox. Remember that you should always wait one minute from the time you connect power to the digibox ‘til you press the power button to turn it on. (If you’re using an inverter to power the digibox, a 150W modified sine-wave model will work fine.) 2. Connect a satellite locator “satfinder” between your dish and the digibox. With the dish on a level surface (use a spirit level if possible), adjust the elevation angle of the dish to the appropriate angle as given in the list supplied with your dish. If you cannot find the precise location where you are, use the closest one listed. If the dish is not level, the elevation angle will have to be adjusted to compensate. 3. Use a compass to find the azimuth angle shown on the chart supplied with the dish. If you cannot find the precise location where you are, use the closest one listed. Then, ensuring that no trees, buildings or other obstacles are between the dish and the satellite, aim your satellite dish towards the north. Be aware that even a lamppost can prevent the satellite’s signal reaching the dish. 4. With the dish facing to the north, slowly and gently rotate it towards the east and, after turning it just past due east, the “satfinder” should beep, flash or flick its needle to indicate that a satellite has been detected. If you have set the elevation angle properly the 28.2° satellite should be the very first that you encounter and which causes the “satfinder” to react. (If you’re using one of our Zehnder satfinders, set it so that the red LEDs are just off – but only just!. When the satfinder detects the satellite, the LEDs will come on and the audible tone will sound. The higher the pitch of the tone and the greater the number of illuminated LEDs, the stronger the signal from the satellite. Aim for a tone which sounds exactly like a dentist’s drill!) 5. To double-check that you’ve found the satellite, you then need to take a look at the signal test screen produced by the SKY digibox. Using the SKY remote control, press the button marked SERVICES and select the SET-UP menu. Select option 4 - SYSTEM SET-UP then option 6 – SIGNAL TEST. 6. The screen should look pretty much like the one shown below. If the network ID shows anything other than 0002, you’ve turned the dish too far and got the wrong satellite: you could just move the dish carefully to the east but it’s probably best to start again from scratch 7. There should be grey bars in the two top fields; signal strength and signal quality. The longer the bars the better although this can be deceptive. In the bottom two fields there should be sets of numbers and the middle field should display OK. The OK can take several seconds to appear even when signal strength and quality are good but, without OK, you won’t get a picture. (This is why the “satfinder” is so useful. because of the time delay between locating the satellite and a picture appearing on the screen, without it you can rotate the dish past the satellite without realising it.) 8. At this point you can gently adjust the dish’s angle of elevation and its direction again to try and achieve a stronger reading on the “satfinder” or on the signal test screen. 9. A bar will almost always appear in the signal strength field but, if there’s no bar in the signal quality field, the dish is probably not pointing at the satellite. When there is a bar, it should remain almost motionless, no matter how long it is. If it fluctuates wildly and OK doesn’t appear, your dish is probably pointing at the satellite at 19.2°. Check the elevation angle and try again. 10. If the signal quality is good and OK is showing but you still can’t see the channel guide or pick up a programme, just give it some time. Try switching the digibox on and off with the remote and, if that still doesn’t have any effect, disconnect the digibox at the mains, leave it off for 2 minutes and try again. If the Skyguide appears, enter 101 or use the up/down arrows to change channels. 11. If the signal test screen shows that the dish is locked onto the satellite but the message “No Satellite Signal Being Received” appears when you try to select a channel, do the following. Turn the mains power to the digibox off for 20 seconds, then turn it back on again but wait for one minute before pressing the power button and turning on the green light. Bear in mind that a digibox is designed to be kept permanently connected to mains power. If disconnected from power for even a few days, it may lose its memory and not work correctly: some channels may be unavailable for instance. Switch it off and on again and, as long as it’s connected to a correctly aligned dish, after a few hours – as many as 24 sometimes - everything should start working again. If it doesn’t, keeping the TV on, cut off the mains power to the digibox for 20 seconds: then hold in the “Back-up” button and turn the power back on. Hold the “Back-up” button in until a message appears on screen. Release the button and wait for the message to disappear. Then switch the digibox on. If the programmes still don’t appear, ‘phone the number on your viewing card and ask for your card to be re-activated. Fortunately, this course of action is rarely necessary. 12. If you find that you can receive some programmes but not others – BBC channels are usually the ones that “go missing” – you may need to adjust the angle of “skew” on the L.N.B. Normally, this only needs to be done when you are approaching the western or eastern edges of the footprint and it’s done to compensate for the dish’s position relative to the satellite. If you’re in western Europe, with the digibox set to the test screen, gently rotate the L.N.B. clockwise as you face it (anti-clockwise if you have a Multimo, Arcon or a Globesat). You’ll see the quality bar move and you should try to get it as far to the right of the screen as possible. If nothing happens, rotate the L.N.B. in the other direction. When you have the strongest quality bar possible, go back to the channels and see what’s happening. You can also try adjusting the skew while tuned to a “missing” channel. In eastern Europe do the same but turn the L.N.B. the opposite way. 13. That should be it! If it isn’t, be patient and start again from the beginning. Make sure that the dish is mounted on a flat, level surface. If it’s not, the angles will be wrong. Work smoothly and slowly and, as if by magic, you’ll find that it works. When you’ve managed it a few times, it’ll be easy. Using a SKY digibox in an area covered by the southern beam Most SKY digital transmissions are broadcast on one of two beams: north and south. The northern beam covers northern Europe and the southern beam covers southern Europe. If you are in southern Europe and find that you are unable to receive any programmes at all it may be necessary to change the settings on your digibox as follows: 1. Using the SKY remote control press the button marked SERVICES 2. Select SET-UP 3. Press buttons 0 then 1 then select 4. Press button 2 5. Change the setting 11.778 to 12.207 by using the number buttons (ignore the decimal point). You could also try using 12.129, 11.817, 12.051 or 11.739. 6. Press SAVE 7. Press SELECT This procedure will enable the digibox to receive transmissions on the southern beam. When you return to the area covered by the northern beam, your digibox will automatically default to its original setting. Be aware: strange things can happen when using a digibox on the southern beam. Even though you have followed the instructions on locating the satellite and the “satfinder” tells you that your dish is correctly positioned, you may find that the signal test screen on the TV shows no signal strength, no signal quality and is, apparently, not locked. All you will see on the screen are the Network ID and Transport Stream numbers as shown below. Of course there is a reason for this and it’s possible to get the digibox to show the correct readings. But, it’s a little complicated and, for most people, probably not worth bothering about. Despite appearances, perfect reception of all available channels is still possible with these readings. Always be guided by the “satfinder”, not what is showing on the screen

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