DSTV dish manual setup

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Need some help here pls...

I've got a dish at my place from my previous residence thats just lying around my flat, and I want to know how/where to point the dish in order to get a signal. It's got the dual LNB thingy required for HD and I want to try it myself rather than pay someone a good chunk of cash to go onto the building roof and run another LNB from the current dish. I plan to set it up on my balcony.

Which direction/angle does the dish need to be at? From the others I've seen it looks like north east?
 
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hungrybeaver said:
Need some help here pls...

I've got a dish at my place from my previous residence thats just lying around my flat, and I want to know how/where to point the dish in order to get a signal. It's got the dual LNB thingy required for HD and I want to try it myself rather than pay someone a good chunk of cash to go onto the building roof and run another LNB from the current dish. I plan to set it up on my balcony.

Which direction/angle does the dish need to be at? From the others I've seen it looks like north east?
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Best best is to look at neighbours dish and point it in the same direction which i think is NE. Then next thing to do is to get LNB in the right alignment. There is normally some information on DSTV website for this, but I just turn the LNB degree by degree until it gets the best signal, and all channels are showing properly.

Then run down either into LNB splitter unit for old HD decoder or straight into decoder for new models.

It is pretty easy to do.............. hardest part is getting both cables to the area where your decoder will be!!
 
The rule for the LNB is normally to have it pointing towards the bottom right at a 4 o'clock angle. Like durbandave said check out the direction your neighbour's dish is pointing but remember a few centimetres out on your balcony can be out by metres at the satelite. Best to get yourself some f-connectors for when you connecting the cables. Which model decoder do you have?
 
Thanks. At the moment I've got it pointed kinda in the right direction but am unable to get signal. My dish has a dual LNB thingy but I only have 1 LNB cable going to the splitter. Does there have to be 2 LNB cables in order for the dish to receive signal? I plan on getting one tomorrow but wanted to check if I can get signal first. I've got the original HDPVR.
 
hungrybeaver said:
Thanks. At the moment I've got it pointed kinda in the right direction but am unable to get signal. My dish has a dual LNB thingy but I only have 1 LNB cable going to the splitter. Does there have to be 2 LNB cables in order for the dish to receive signal? I plan on getting one tomorrow but wanted to check if I can get signal first. I've got the original HDPVR.
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I'm not sure the 4 tuners will boot up properly with just 1 connection, you can try, if it does then you will get signal using Tuner 1, wont get TV guide or be able to record though
 
Smurfatefrog said:
I'm not sure the 4 tuners will boot up properly with just 1 connection, you can try, if it does then you will get signal using Tuner 1, wont get TV guide or be able to record though
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At the moment I'm using the building dish with 1 LNB directly into the decoder and I do get signal and channel 100 but nothing else. Is there something I can do to get full tv? I have that 4 tuner device here, it's not connected though.
 
What decoder do you have connected at the moment? You do require 4 inputs, but 3 are used for 1 buffering, and the other 2 for recording. Check that the lnb is at the right angle. When I first installed hd pvr I had similar issues. If you are using a building shared dish then you may nerd to manually adjust the frequencies on the pvr under advanced settings as a shared system is not normally standard.

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durbandave said:
What decoder do you have connected at the moment? You do require 4 inputs, but 3 are used for 1 buffering, and the other 2 for recording. Check that the lnb is at the right angle. When I first installed hd pvr I had similar issues. If you are using a building shared dish then you may nerd to manually adjust the frequencies on the pvr under advanced settings as a shared system is not normally standard.

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I have the DSR4660 (original HDPVR). What do you mean about the LNB angle? What frequencies should I adjust?
 
you can either get one of those satellite finders that buzz or you can call an installer out, i would go with the latter
 
Sorry for the late reply. The lnb angle determines the polarization of the signal. For the original hdpvr you need to take the cables from the dual lnb on the dish to a multiplex. This splits into 6 normally. Four of those cables on the multiplexer need to go into the decoder. By lnb angle I mean the angle the coax cables point out from the lnb on the dish. Adjusting the rotation of the lnb adjusts the polarization of the signal. Get that right and all should work fine. Try rotating the lnb bit by bit on the dish and watch the signal on the status under the decoder settings. This method worked perfectly for me. I refused to pay 2000 for someone to install something I can do on my own.

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durbandave said:
Sorry for the late reply. The lnb angle determines the polarization of the signal. For the original hdpvr you need to take the cables from the dual lnb on the dish to a multiplex. This splits into 6 normally. Four of those cables on the multiplexer need to go into the decoder. By lnb angle I mean the angle the coax cables point out from the lnb on the dish. Adjusting the rotation of the lnb adjusts the polarization of the signal. Get that right and all should work fine. Try rotating the lnb bit by bit on the dish and watch the signal on the status under the decoder settings. This method worked perfectly for me. I refused to pay 2000 for someone to install something I can do on my own.

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Yup I agree, will not pay for someone to install dstv for me, have moved many times and each time have succesfully installed myself and for many other people. I have found with the LNB angle that the markings on the LNB, the last marking on the right of the LNB should be at the top center of the mounting ring of the control arm. If the ring has markings it must line up with "0" , if you move it 3 notches to the left of "0" studio universal sig quality drops to 90, mnet sig quality stays at 100%, if moved 3 notches to the right of the "0" (center) of the ring mnet sig quality drops to 90% and studio universal stays at 100%. Have tested this setup across all channels and they stay at 100%.

If you really want to fine tune play around with the distance between the LNB and dish, it is recomended that the measurement from the end of the ring to the beginning of the front part of the LNB ( side facing the dish) is 5mm. Play around with this, I have managed to get 100% sig strength by doing this, but the dish must be perfectly aligned.
 
You can private message me if you want a set of instructions on how to install the dish yourself:-)
 
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