Just retired, and have purchased a Sat tv box , live in the North Island of New Zealand, I have manage to get about 7 station on it , but every one tell me there are hundreds more out there, at present I am useing an old Sky dish that was on the property, and I am told there is a way that you can either add transponders or make the dish adjustable from inside the house, any pointers as to how to do this would be recieved with thanks, plus what sats should I try to tune into in my location.
Help I am new to this Sat TV
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Wizard I doubt I could help much from the US, but surely the equipment would be similar to ours. There should be a small motor available to mount your dish on, to move it to different satellites, allowing you access to more channels. With the receiver you have, fixed on one satellite I assume, you will have to study the receiver to learn its operation. Here, receivers have a Scan function to locate new signals on the satellites, and store them automatically. If you can't find the owner manual for your receiver, I would suggest just reading all you can , and go through the menu on your receiver to learn its options. There should be a feature to manually add new transponders if yours doesn't have blind-scan. I would think a google search for your country might provide local people or forums to help you better! Welcome to our forum anyway!!
to SatalliteGuys.We may not be able to give to too much help, but we will try. But first we will need some information : What amke / model of receiver (Set Top Box) do you have? Dish model or size and shape, What satellite are you presenly seeing or at least the names of the networks / stations so we can check databases (lyngsat etc) to find where you are looking.
I believe SKy uses around a 45cm dish (like Dish and Direct here in the US). IF that is the case then you will need a larger satellite dish, Wizard. YOu might check out lyngsat.com for the itc signals for Asia and Pacific regions. You will need a 76cm and larger for ku signals and 180cm and larger dish for c band signals.
THe larger the dish the more signals you will be able to pull in. Read a lot here and other forums (I believe I have run accross a forum for Austalia one time). A quick click on these links from lyngsat shows quite a few channels itc but ti will also depend on the beam from the satellite hitting New Zealand (or stated another way whether New Zealand is in a sat.s footprint). Good luck.
Free TV - Pacific - LyngSat
THe larger the dish the more signals you will be able to pull in. Read a lot here and other forums (I believe I have run accross a forum for Austalia one time). A quick click on these links from lyngsat shows quite a few channels itc but ti will also depend on the beam from the satellite hitting New Zealand (or stated another way whether New Zealand is in a sat.s footprint). Good luck.
Free TV - Pacific - LyngSat
Hi, one of the first things to try and understand is what satellites you would have clear line of sight (LOS) to. A quick check of Auckland New Zealand (used Auckland because I do not know what city you are close to) as an example shows the longitude to be 174E so the satellites that would be at a good elevation would run about + - 40 degrees from that. Intelsat 8 at 166E has both C-band and Ku band with foot prints to New Zealand on both. Looks like there is a lot more available to New Zealand on C-band on this satellite so you may need a large dish.
You should spend some time on lyngsat.com and check out some of the other satellites that are near 174E and see if you can find more that would be worth pointing at.
Also, how clear is the sky to the North, North West and North East? Any trees or other things in the way?
Hope this helps, DC
You should spend some time on lyngsat.com and check out some of the other satellites that are near 174E and see if you can find more that would be worth pointing at.
Also, how clear is the sky to the North, North West and North East? Any trees or other things in the way?
Hope this helps, DC
To start you need to focus your dish on Optus D1 at 160 east and receive the many FTA freeview channels. Then consider a motorised set up motor to go further east for the south sea islands satellites coverage although some may be in French.
I highly Recomend you to get a motor or a motor arm even if it is a small KU Band Dish Or a C Band dish. The motor will save you a nightmare, Found that out when i first started with FTA and a analog dishfinder will save you a ton of time and money. If Optus will work well with the smallest size need it would be good to start with. When you learn to work with it better get a bigger dish, plus you have less risk of rainfade with a bigger dish because you have a larger surface area.
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