Installing Dish - What am I doing wrong?

[GJvdB]

I just bought an new 33" dish, LNBF and receiver so I can watch BVN tv from the T-5 satallite. But I can't get it to work. As far as I know I installed everything as it is supposed to be done. I'm in Jacksonville Florida. Installed the dish at: Azimuth 207, Elevation 51. Correct cable and directly ground wired the dish. With my satfinder I'm getting a strong signal. But my tuner seems not to get the (right) signal. Low Signal Strenght and Low Signal Quality.

What I'm I doing wrong? Is there something in the settings of the tuner I need to change?

Tuner: Digiwave DG7000

LNB: Gigiwave, Standard KU LNBF, Digital Ready, DG 668, RF: 10.70 / 12.75GHz, IF: 950 / 2150MHz, LO 9.750/10.600GHz, Gain: 55dB, Noise Figure: 0.5 dB.

The channel I'm most interested in: BVN TV, 11929, V

Information Setup Screen:
- Antenna Setup: 1
- Type: Fixed
- Satellite: T-5
- LNB Type: Univ
- LNB Freq. 1: 9750
- LNB Freq. 2: 10600
- 0/12 Volt: None
- 22KHz: None
- DiSEqC: None
- C/Ku Band Control: None


Channel Seach Screen:
- Antenna: 1
- Satellite: T-5
- Position: Disable
- Transponder: TP5
- Frequency: 11.929
- Symbol Rate: 22.000
- Polarization: Ver
- 22KHz: X

- Strength: 60
- Quality: 40

 

[sat meister]

Hey,GJGDB
You need to set your lnb type from univ to std. or standard.Also put your receiver on frequency 12152 then tune your dish from there.Peak to the highest quality possible.Let me know how it goes.

 

[Shawn95GT]

According to the specs he posted, that is a universal LNB. The fact that he has quality at all is a good sign . If you've got 40% signal now it should just be a matter of tweaking the dish. You probably need to skew the LNB (about 25° counter-clockwise) until your signal peaks.

This will probably get moved over to the FTA forum, but here's the sats & positions in case you want to look beyond IA-5 .

      Jacksonville, FL 32259
Latitude 30° 5.736'N Longitude 81° 37.302'W

                         Sat Name Sat Lng Az(t) Az(m)   El  Skew
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   *** Atlantic Sats 1W - 61W ***
                                 
        Thor 2/3 / Intelsat 10-02    1.0W  94.7 100.5 -0.6 -59.6
                         Amos 1/2    4.0W  96.3 102.0  2.0 -59.3
                  Atlantic Bird 3    5.0W  96.8 102.5  2.9 -59.2
                  Nilesat 101/102    7.0W  97.9 103.6  4.6 -59.0
     Telecom 2D / Atlantic Bird 2    8.0W  98.4 104.1  5.5 -58.9
                       Express 3A   11.0W 100.0 105.7  8.1 -58.4
                  Atlantic Bird 1   12.5W 100.8 106.6  9.4 -58.2
         Gorizont 32 (incl. 6.0°)   14.0W 101.7 107.4 10.7 -57.9
                       Telstar 12   15.0W 102.2 108.0 11.6 -57.7
                     Intelsat 901   18.0W 104.0 109.7 14.2 -57.1
        Intelsat 603 (incl. 2.8°)   20.0W 105.2 110.9 15.9 -56.6
                            NSS 7   22.0W 106.4 112.1 17.7 -56.1
                     Intelsat 905   24.5W 108.0 113.7 19.8 -55.4
                     Intelsat 907   27.5W 109.9 115.7 22.4 -54.4
                   Hispasat 1C/1D   30.0W 111.7 117.4 24.6 -53.5
                     Intelsat 801   31.5W 112.7 118.5 25.9 -52.9
                     Intelsat 903   34.5W 115.0 120.7 28.4 -51.7
 AMC 12 / Telstar 11 (incl. 1.1°)   37.5W 117.3 123.1 30.9 -50.2
                          NSS 806   40.5W 119.9 125.6 33.4 -48.6
                  PAS 6B / PAS 3R   43.0W 122.1 127.8 35.5 -47.1
                           PAS 1R   45.0W 124.0 129.7 37.0 -45.8
                     Intelsat 705   50.0W 129.2 134.9 40.9 -42.1
                     Intelsat 707   53.0W 132.6 138.3 43.1 -39.6
                     Intelsat 805   55.5W 135.6 141.4 44.8 -37.2
                            PAS 9   58.0W 138.9 144.6 46.5 -34.7
                         Amazonas   61.0W 143.1 148.8 48.3 -31.3
                                 
                                 
*** All Satellites 61W - 160W ***
                                 
           EchoStar 3 / Rainbow 1   61.5W 143.8 149.6 48.6 -30.7
                 Estrela do Sul 1   63.0W 146.1 151.8 49.4 -28.9
                     Brasilsat B2   65.0W 149.2 155.0 50.5 -26.3
                     Brasilsat B1   70.0W 157.7 163.4 52.7 -19.2
                         Nahuel 1   71.8W 161.0 166.7 53.3 -16.4
                            AMC 6   72.0W 161.3 167.0 53.4 -16.1
                        DirecTV 1   72.5W 162.2 168.0 53.5 -15.3
                            SBS 6   74.0W 165.1 170.8 53.9 -12.9
                       EchoStar 4   77.0W 170.8 176.6 54.6  -7.9
                            AMC 5   79.0W 174.8 180.5 54.8  -4.5
                          Nimiq 2   82.0W 180.8 186.5 54.9   0.7
                            AMC 9   83.0W 182.7 188.5 54.9   2.4
                     Brasilsat B3   84.0W 184.7 190.5 54.8   4.1
                     AMC 16/AMC 2   85.0W 186.7 192.4 54.7   5.8
                      XM Roll (3)   85.1W 186.9 192.6 54.7   6.0
                            AMC 3   87.0W 190.6 196.4 54.4   9.2
              Intelsat Americas 8   89.0W 194.5 200.2 54.0  12.5
                        Galaxy 11   91.0W 198.2 204.0 53.4  15.7
                          Nimiq 1   91.0W 198.2 204.0 53.4  15.7
                          Nimiq 3   91.1W 198.4 204.1 53.4  15.9
                     Brasilsat B4   92.0W 200.1 205.8 53.1  17.3
              Intelsat Americas 6   93.0W 201.9 207.6 52.8  18.8
                        Galaxy 3C   95.0W 205.4 211.1 52.0  21.8
              Intelsat Americas 5   97.0W 208.7 214.5 51.1  24.6
                        Galaxy 4R   99.0W 212.0 217.7 50.1  27.3
                  DirecTV 1R/2/4S  101.0W 215.0 220.8 49.0  29.8
                            AMC 4  101.0W 215.0 220.8 49.0  29.8
                            AMC 1  103.0W 218.0 223.7 47.8  32.2
                           AMC 15  105.0W 220.8 226.5 46.6  34.4
                      Anik F1/F1R  107.3W 223.8 229.5 45.1  36.8
                        DirecTV 6  109.8W 226.9 232.6 43.4  39.2
                     EchoStar 6/8  110.0W 227.1 232.9 43.2  39.4
                          Anik F2  111.1W 228.4 234.2 42.5  40.3
                    Solidaridad 2  113.0W 230.6 236.3 41.1  41.9
                          XM Rock  115.0W 232.7 238.5 39.6  43.5
                         SatMex 5  116.8W 234.6 240.3 38.2  44.8
            DirecTV 7S/EchoStar 7  119.0W 236.7 242.4 36.4  46.3
  EchoStar 9/Intelsat Americas 13  121.0W 238.6 244.3 34.8  47.6
                       Galaxy 10R  123.0W 240.4 246.1 33.2  48.8
                        Galaxy 12  125.0W 242.0 247.8 31.6  49.8
             Galaxy 13/Horizons 1  127.0W 243.7 249.4 29.9  50.8
 Intelsat Americas 7 / EchoStar 5  129.0W 245.2 251.0 28.2  51.8
                           AMC 11  131.0W 246.7 252.5 26.5  52.6
                        Galaxy 1R  133.0W 248.2 253.9 24.8  53.4
                           AMC 10  135.0W 249.6 255.3 23.1  54.2
                            AMC 7  137.0W 250.9 256.6 21.3  54.8
                            AMC 8  139.0W 252.2 257.9 19.6  55.5
                        Galaxy 14  146.0W 256.5 262.2 13.5  57.3
                     EchoStar 1/2  148.0W 257.6 263.4 11.8  57.7
                                 
                                 

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[sksatellite]

I don't know what happened in this world, but just this couple of months, I do have encountered sometime , problem to get satellite signal, I got strong signal showed at the meter, but nothing show at the receiver, no matter its universal or standard LNBF, I have to tune the LNBF from straight to the left or right to gain signal quality, this I have not done and no need to do it for a long long time.

 

[sksatellite]

And you may try setting other frequency with the whole TP is in the clear, like 11836V SR 20765 or 11966 H SR 22000, sometime you may get everything right, but your receiver is set at a scrambled or not work channel,

 

[LER]

more likely to get help here in FTA land

 

[Unckle_Fun_Knuckles]

Don't forget to add in your magnetic declination...
looks like add about 5 degrees to azimuth,
might help