Lidl satelite, pls help

[some1gr8]

hi

i bought lidl satelite recently but cant get this thing working

i am trying to connect to ASTRA 28.1, Signal strengh and quality is more than 70% and i can get some germans etc channels, but i want to get bbc1 bbc2 etc, it can search these channels but when i put these channels it always says NO Signals ,, i did use SAT finder but cant get better than this,

 

[ClubMan]

Try the boards.ie Satellite TV forum perhaps? They get lots of queries like this and have some very good regular posters who can help.

 

[jhegarty]

Thats because you are on the wrong satellite, I presume as you are getting German its 19.2e (astra 1) and not 28.2e (astra 2) which you need for sky...

 

[MrKeane]

Signal quality - this is the bit that tells you if the thing is wired up correctly, should be around 90-100%

Signal Strength - this is the bit that tells you how strong the signal from the satellite is, if its 0% it means its pointing at open sky. 50% is what mine usually shows and its fine for BBC etc.

As has already been said you might be pointing at the wrong bird.

 

[Technologist]

i bought lidl satelite recently but cant get this thing working

There used be a time when satellites cost millions of dollars and you had to be a major government to own one!

I'd agree with the best guess here that you're probably pointing your dish at Astra 19.2. It has a lot of German channels.

In the 'service search', use a frequency of 10773H and a symbol rate of 22000 as your reference (that's BBC). Move the dish to the left until you get no signal, then keep moving it to the left until you get a signal again. If that doesn't get BBC, then move it to the next satellite. There's possibly 5 stops between Astra 19.2 and 28.5, but not all of them (or any) would have a signal on that frequency.

Once you get BBC, the others should be plain sailing.

 

[olddog]

I agree with Technologist

Point it further East and also down towards the ground a bit