Satellite dish tech questions - new home, aerial not working. FTA set up.

amurray88_2

Hi all,
I just moved home. There is a satellite dish and an aerial on the roof. The aerial cable does nothing when I try to install channels on the TV.
I attached the aerial and tried to install. It says it's Astra 28.2e. It finds approx 400-500 channels of all sort. It doesn't find BBC but does find ITV (although not for my local region). I tried to manually find BBC channels using the frequencies on BBC website but it found other channels (see below for info).

When I put in - Vertical, 23,000, 10,847 I should get BBC One HD, BBC One NI, BBC 2, BBC 2 Wales & CBBC. Instead I get Racing TV, Smithsonian, TRT World.

When I put in vertical, 22000 and 10817 I should get BBC One NI, BBC 2 NI, BBC 1 South & BBC 1 Southwest. Instead I get A1tv, b4u movies, babes and brazers, CNBC, hidayat TV, ktv, London live, Madani chnl, sangat, television X, TVC news, Venus.

I spoke with someone and they said I have a Sky Q LNB...Sky LNB non-Q has local oscilator frequency of 9.75GHz for low band (plus 10.6GHz for high band). Sky Q LNB has just 10.41 GHz.

The "error" introduced by using Q LNB on a non-Q receiver is for low band 10.41-9.75GHz i.e. 0.66GHz. Thus satellite signals at 11.479GHz will appear at 11.479- 0.66GHz, i.e. 10.819GHz due to the local oscilator being "wrong" by 0.66GHz.
The 0.001GHz between this and 10.818GHz is well within AFC correction range.

Now...... I am definitely not knowledgeable in this area (in fact, I'm clueless!). Someone said I can just buy a quad LNB and install .....I'm happy to do DIY but is this a step too far?

Are there any other easy fixes?

Thank you!

debitcardmayhem

Have a look at kingofsat https://en.kingofsat.net/sat-astra2e.php or ask the question in  avforums e.g. https://www.avforums.com/threads/cant-connect-freesat-to-sky-q-dish.2284777/

debitcardmayhem

I just checked my feeds on 10847 I get the channels you suggest in your post

Oh and according to kingofsat smithsonian is

That is the end of my knowledge ...sorry

flashg67

Apart from signing up to Sky Q, then swapping the LNB is probably the best option. When I had my 'normal' Sky swapped to Sky Q, they just change the LNB, I kept the same dish and cabling

mobileron

Make life easy get a 4k firestick for £49, you dont need any aerial just decent wifi.You can get all you want to watch and many youve never heard of.

amurray88_2

mobileron said:

Make life easy get a 4k firestick for £49, you dont need any aerial just decent wifi.You can get all you want to watch and many youve never heard of.

We had thought of that but our firestick upstairs doesn't do BBC 1 Scotland so when we're watching something like the news it just cuts out and says we can't show this content in your area. Bit of a pest... unless there's a way round it

amurray88_2

flashg67 said:

Apart from signing up to Sky Q, then swapping the LNB is probably the best option. When I had my 'normal' Sky swapped to Sky Q, they just change the LNB, I kept the same dish and cabling

Is changing the LNB a DIY job? I'm happy to do DIY (within reason)

macman

Yes, assuming you can safely access the dish.

SteveJW

amurray88_2 said:

mobileron said:

Make life easy get a 4k firestick for £49, you dont need any aerial just decent wifi.You can get all you want to watch and many youve never heard of.

We had thought of that but our firestick upstairs doesn't do BBC 1 Scotland so when we're watching something like the news it just cuts out and says we can't show this content in your area. Bit of a pest... unless there's a way round it

Just a thought are you watching BBC 1 Scotland in high definition (HD)
Here in Yorkshire I can watch BBC in HD but when the local news comes on I get a red screen, message content not available in your area and some stupid music

amurray88_2

SteveJW said:

amurray88_2 said:

mobileron said:

Make life easy get a 4k firestick for £49, you dont need any aerial just decent wifi.You can get all you want to watch and many youve never heard of.

We had thought of that but our firestick upstairs doesn't do BBC 1 Scotland so when we're watching something like the news it just cuts out and says we can't show this content in your area. Bit of a pest... unless there's a way round it

Just a thought are you watching BBC 1 Scotland in high definition (HD)
Here in Yorkshire I can watch BBC in HD but when the local news comes on I get a red screen, message content not available in your area and some stupid music

That's the message!

J_B

SteveJW said:

Here in Yorkshire I can watch BBC in HD but when the local news comes on I get a red screen, message content not available in your area and some stupid music

Slightly off topic, but we get this with BBC midlands, but when we go to Wales the local news comes through on the HD channel!