Freesat

Starcollie

Ok,
I may be being rather blonde here, but I need someones advice.
I have recently moved into a house that has a sat dish outside and old sky box indoors and no normal aerial connection anywhere in the front room. I used to be able to run the tv through the sat box and pick up 4 normal channels (BBC1&2, ITV & C4) & limited freesat channels, but now it appears to not connect to anything. Sometimes I have just a blue screen with the message "Searching for available channels" but nothing else and this can go on for about 3 days. Then it comes back for a couple of days then back to "Searching". Can't really afford to go onto a monthly Sky/Virgin package either. My bedroom tv is linked to a indoor loft aeriel (ancient type) So yesterday I bought a little freesat receiver and used a scart lead to join tv to box but it comes up with the message no signal.... now at a real loss about what I should be doing. Any advice would be really appreciated.
Jo

Knarf44

Did you connect the Sky Dish to the Freesat box?

kwikbreaks

The problem I have in offering useful advice is that apart from "something isn't working" there really is little to say.

Assuming you have correctly connected the dish to the set top box and the STB to the TV all that should be necessary is to go through the STB setup but yours just reports "No signal" so you can't tune it.

Anyway as it wasn't working originally the areas that could be faulty are...

Dish has been knocked out of alignment.
The LNB is faulty.
The coax is faulty.
The STB is faulty.

Sorry my reply is so unhelpful - maybe somebody else can think of something that narrows it down.

Starcollie

Hi,
No, the cable that comes from the skydish is not the "old" normal aerial connection and I couldn't see any other way of connecting it.

When I tried the freesat box on the tv upstairs, I was able to connect loft aerial cable to satbox then into back of tv via a scart lead but this wouldn't work either.

Thanks

victor2

Surprised you were able to connect the freesat box to a standard aerial - it needs a satellite dish connected. If the new freesat box doesn't work downstairs then, as already suggested, the fault may be with the dish alignment or cable. You'll probably have to get your local friendly dish installer to look at that.

kwikbreaks

Are you sure you've got a FreeSAT box and not a FreeVIEW box?

If it is a satellite box it will have a screw in "F" style connector for the coax from the dish.

liam8282

Starcollie wrote: »

Hi,
No, the cable that comes from the skydish is not the "old" normal aerial connection and I couldn't see any other way of connecting it.

Does the aerial connection look like:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=10447

If your free sat box doesn't have the correct connection to screw onto, you may just need an adapter, or possibly just change the connection, if you can do that.

*I agree it may be freeview, not freesat as above.

Starcollie

Apologies to all, yes now at home and its a freeview box not a freesat box.

Thanks for all the advice I will follow up them all, at least I now have somewhere to start.

THanks again.

spakkker

A freeview box needs a good signal -not usually available from an indoor aerial. In my area if you can get C5 well you may get freeview but don't know if this applies everywhere.
You could try a freesat box - http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/bush-freesat-sd-digital-box-29-99-a/773308 but as mentioned your satellite signal may not be any good.

Starcollie

Purchased the attached link today from Argos and hey I'm typing this whilst watching ITV2 this evening. But when I did install it shows my signal is 48-49%. So am gonna have the dish alignment checked.
Thanks again, Much appreciated.