Satellite Dish Re-alignment

[Digger]

My Sky dish was accidentally knocked out of alignment yesterday.

Sky want £65 to visit as "your Sky box is outside of the 12 months warranty period". Plus next available appointment is not till the 28th.

I'm reasonably handy so short of getting a 3rd party engineer to visit, how difficult would it be, and how costly to buy the necessary equipment to re-align the dish to the Astra satellite (iirc) myself.

[Megaflow]

Easy. What you need is one of these:

http://www.screwfix.com/p/slx-satellite-finder-met...

And a cable to go inbetween it and the dish.

Should literally take 5 mins.

[stuart313]

Just use the signal strength meter built into the sky box, it's in the settings somewhere. It helps to have one person looking at the TV and the other up the ladder or cart the TV and box up there with you.

You can get a few cheap meters that will do the trick, the only thing is they tell you that you are locked onto a satellite just not which one. Could be a poor excuse for some hard core duch porn though. I think the sky satellite is 0002.

http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p44578

[Digger]

Thanks chaps. As per my opening post it is an assumption that the dish is out of alignment when in fact it might be the LNB?!

How do I tell if the quad LNB is the culprit? I could try swapping that out first before dish-tinkering. Easy swap? Any quad LNB should be compatible?

[Magic919]

Maplin or a specialist should be able to sell you a suitable quad LNB. Should be about £30.

[Digger]

My mistake it's actually an Octo LNB which I don't think Maplin sells, their website showing only quads.

[Magic919]

Octo will be a bit beyond them I suspect. Specialist place or mail order.

[Digger]

Just ordered this. Should be here tomorrow.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000W4EGKE

[gizlaroc]

Just make sure it is the same connector for your dish, so it will slide straight on.

[gizlaroc]

Just make sure it is the same connector for your dish, so it will slide straight on.