[mythtvnz] Freeview dish set-up woes

[Steven Ellis]

Matt Poff wrote:
> 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?
I'm assuming you are using screw on F-Type connectors? You shouldn't
need to peel back the shielding. but otherwise it sounds OK. Can you use
a circuit tester to make sure you have no shorts?

Also is the meter turned up to the max?

Steve
>
> 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...
>>>
>>
>> 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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