Portable satellite dish

CaptT
CaptT Forum Participant Posts: 1
edited July 2018 in Parts & Accessories #1

We have used a comag satellite suitcase type kit for some time prob since about 2004 with great success.

Lately over way last 2\3 years the no of stations we can get has got feeds and fewer. Too van out last bankholiday and it wouldn't work at all. Red Sat finder light kept flashing but no stations.

Have been checking thins over but nothing comes to fight bought Sat finder meter which seems to show by beeping presence of stations but no sound of pic to confirm.

I gather comag has gone now so as station in to was preloaded would it be a case of all the info now super seeded  and I need new equiment??  Have the stations moved 

 

 

 

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  • Vulcan
    Vulcan Forum Participant Posts: 670
    edited May 2018 #2

    Have  you tried connecting your dish to your house receiver, assuming you have one to eliminate the dish/lnb. And visa versa, connecting the Comag to your house dish.

  • Woody19
    Woody19 Forum Participant Posts: 43
    edited July 2018 #3

    Are you finding the Astra 28.2E cluster? It is <very> easy to find the Astra 19.2E cluster instead which will give you a good signal but no programmes.

    If this is the case you need to move the dish slightly left (viewed from behind) and tilt it down a bit to find Astra 28.2E.

    If you have an Android smartphone, download the free Satellite Director which will show you exactly where the satellite is in the sky. Note that the dish reception is is elevated, that is if the dish is vertical it will actually be looking 25 degrees above vertical for a signal.

  • DavidKlyne
    DavidKlyne Club Member Posts: 13,864 ✭✭✭
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    edited July 2018 #4

    Satellites(in the sky) often have programmes moved. My roof top system controller needed a software upgrade recently as I had lost all channels all of a sudden. You would need to search online to see if you can still get upgrades for the Comag. How old is your TV? There are several makes that have inbuilt satellite receivers.

    David

  • peedee
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    edited July 2018 #5

    There have been a lot of changes since 2004, new satellites and new transponder frequencies, plus changes in coding and polarity.  You probably need any new transponder frequencies and other changes programmed  into your receiver  for reception. If you are able to access the menu to change and add new frequencies this is what you may need to do. Consult your handbook and >Lynsat< to check. 

    If you are using a skybox and have changed to sky Q I think you may have to change your LNB to receive all channels.

    peedee

  • ocsid
    ocsid Forum Participant Posts: 1,395
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    edited July 2018 #6

    My starting point would be follow Vulcan's advice and see if anyone could let you set the unit up on a pre aligned dish; a Sky user or any of us on site would be suitable.

    Then set up the Comag to Astra 28.2 an get it to do a rescan of the channels. Hopefully it should still work and will then retain all the current setting.

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