[mythtvnz] Freeview dish set-up woes

[Matt Poff]

Well, I figured the connection might be shorting somewhere so I redid 
all the RG6 connections (screw-on). I've got the LNB out of the dish on 
the floor on the end of the cable connections and the same thing 
happens. Start dvbtune, the meter maxes out and squeals.

I can only assume something is shorting out again... anyone know of any 
good cable service people in Wellington who would put crimped 
connections on a few lengths of cable? Then again I guess they'll cost 
more than the crimping tool I didn't want to have to buy in the first place.

Why the hell it's shorting I don't know. I've got a 1/4" of shielding 
folded back over the wrapper, a 1/4" of inner plastic core with the foil 
stripped off and a 1/4" of copper wire at the end. Should do it 
shouldn't it?

Cheers,
Matt



Craig Whitmore wrote:
>> I'm attempting to set-up a 75cm dish for Freeview with a Skystar2 
>> card and not having any luck. I've tried using the frequency listed 
>> for the D1 on the Freeview site (12.469 GHz) and the one listed for 
>> Freeview on the Lyngsat website (12.483). Whether I run the following 
>> in dvbtune. Following the guide at pvr.geek.nz 
>> (http://pvr.geek.nz/w/index.php/DVB-S_Setup) I subtracted 10.75 (my 
>> LNB L.O) from both these and tried...
>>
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> Another good guide is http://www.wlug.org.nz/FreeViewMythTvSetup but 
> you seem to be doing it correctly with the software
> So it is most likely a dish setup problem as you don't seems to get 
> any signal from the Satellite.
>
> Thanks
> Craig
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