LG TV Freesat/Freeview

Dunwunderin

Hi ,
Have recently taken delivery of a LG joint Freesat/Freeview TV as I live in a marginal Freeview reception area.

I find the Freesat reception to be excellent except for a few side channels where I don't get any sat signal.

Any ideas how to recover the side channels? I have tried retuning the Freesat tuner but the side channels are still missing!

Le_Kirk

Pardon my ignorance but what is a side channel? Is you Satellite dish line up correctly and by that I mean has it been adjusted using a meter rather than just relying on the TV/Satellite receiver to tell you it's delivering a certain percentage at a certain quality?

nickcc

I've just fitted a new 80 cm sat dish but still find some of the more obscure channels can't be received. To be honest there's so many other choices I can't really be bothered to readjust my dish.

Neil_Jones

If you can't get all the Freesat channels from the off on a new dish it normally means the dish is out of alignment. They have to look at a very specific point in the sky and it only has to be out by a few millimetres and you'll lose a chunk of channels. What channels can't you get?

nickcc

I've set the dish up using the signal locator so just adjusted the dish to the meters strongest signal, the reason I used the bigger dish was because whenever we had heavy rain we lost the signal, the 80 cm dish solved this problem. It's only a couple of channels that we can't get so not really bothered.

Dunwunderin

I can get all the major channels but seem unable to get side channels like Yesterday or Drama.

To get these channels I have change TV over from FreeSat to Freeview mode which is bit cumbersome.

Unfortunately these channels are very popular with my wife!

Le_Kirk

Dunwunderin wrote: »

I can get all the major channels but seem unable to get side channels like Yesterday or Drama.

I ask again (for my own education) what is a side channel?

debitcardmayhem

Dunwunderin wrote: »

I can get all the major channels but seem unable to get side channels like Yesterday or Drama.

To get these channels I have change TV over from FreeSat to Freeview mode which is bit cumbersome.

Unfortunately these channels are very popular with my wife!

Not on freesat platform I don't think https://www.freesat.co.uk/channels

Rodders53

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Not on freesat platform I don't think https://www.freesat.co.uk/channels

Both the chanels mentioned are on freesat LCN 159 (Yesterday) and 158 (Drama).
Both on the same 12129 V transponder.

Received here on standard $ky dish @ 100/100 on my Foxsat-HDR so not a difficult one!
I find Vintage TV lcn 505 is a good test of dish alignment. (11263 H).

The OP's dish needs aligning, lnb skew can be out and critical.

Receiver metering is almost invariably superior to an amateur satellite signal finder meter.

Neil_Jones

nickcc wrote: »

I've set the dish up using the signal locator so just adjusted the dish to the meters strongest signal, the reason I used the bigger dish was because whenever we had heavy rain we lost the signal, the 80 cm dish solved this problem. It's only a couple of channels that we can't get so not really bothered.

My post was directed at the OP but anyway, you can get away with a dish as small as 50cm depending on where you are in the country. The further north you go the bigger the dish should be as firstly the signal from the satellites is weaker and secondly it provides a level of protection against the signal loss experienced during heavy rain - ideally it shouldn't go at all during heavy rain with the sole exception of thunderstorms...