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#3327984 5-Jan-2025 23:02

Is Sky Test channel 888 is from Optus 10?

I increased the elevation of my dish to get Sky working in the evenings but now 888 is not available. Sky now breaks up in the morning but we don’t watch it then.

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#3327987 5-Jan-2025 23:14

Yep, 156E. So uses the offset head of dual head lnbs. If you tweaked it for 160 and that's now gone. Too much.

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#3327995 6-Jan-2025 03:30

Go to channel 888 dont worry if it says no signal. Lower dish elvation slowly back down until channel 888 returns.

Then Stop messing with it..

Go in your tuner menu on your skybox and give your readings here. You should really be looking for 13.5 or better to give you margin for the sat wobble,

If your dish is correctly lined up it shouldnt have any issues with the satellites wobble. A 60cm can easily tolerate it as they not that precise.

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#3328199 6-Jan-2025 12:26

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Is Sky Test channel 888 is from Optus 10?

I increased the elevation of my dish to get Sky working in the evenings but now 888 is not available. Sky now breaks up in the morning but we don’t watch it then.

I've been having this issue! It's been driving us insane, Sky works in the morning but from around 2pm it completely loses signal regardless of weather, and then it returns some time in the night.

Technician coming this week, hopefully it'll get sorted but if they come too early in the day they're going to see a working service.. 🤪

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#3328252 6-Jan-2025 12:55

Mine is stuffed most of the time now, just tells me no signal and nothing registering in the settings of the box itself.

We previously could see channel 888 but now we have no picture at all.

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#3328327 6-Jan-2025 15:34

@Guff - see https://freeviewnz.tv/support/technical-help/satellite-reception-issues-only-at-certain-times-of-the-day/

That's the Freeview official response, but it is the same issue you are having.

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#3328329 6-Jan-2025 15:35

Cheers, will have a look!

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#3328367 6-Jan-2025 18:47

As mentioned you need a signal of 13.5 when it’s good ie morning for it to be ok at the evening. Sky tech turned up today, knew that is what is required and determined a tree was in the line of sight so relocated the dish. All done in 40mins. All good now.

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#3328491 6-Jan-2025 22:30

Also should be noted that larger sky dishes may still drop out even with a bigger signal as they more sensitive to the satellite wobble as they are more focussed on the satellite.

The wobble from the satellite peaks at certain times of the day.

With Sky loading up on the Optus 10 installers should be aligning the backup sat on thee 156E lnbf side, and not trying to peak for signal levels on 160E. Which could be at 160.5E or 160.7E depending on when they are at a customers for a repair job.

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#3328495 6-Jan-2025 22:45

I have got the new Sky box and around 5pm the picture goes to crap for a number of hours! Have had 2 x Sky techs out and issue still happens

Sky tech replaced lnb on the first visit

Called again tonight and another tech can't come out for another 3 weeks. Got told tonight channel 888 testing does not work on the new Sky Box

rlevis

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#3328498 6-Jan-2025 22:58

I had a larger sat dish installed privately 12 years ago. I think it was around 80cm. We have had no dropouts from Sky at any time of the day. But no provision for 156 degrees, so we'll need to get someone out privately to redirect it, on the roof of a double-storey house. I suspect that won't be cheap.

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#3328516 7-Jan-2025 01:55

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I have got the new Sky box and around 5pm the picture goes to crap for a number of hours! Have had 2 x Sky techs out and issue still happens

Sky tech replaced lnb on the first visit

Called again tonight and another tech can't come out for another 3 weeks. Got told tonight channel 888 testing does not work on the new Sky Box

Can you post your tuner settings, signal levels and time of day taken..btw Downers have the Sky contracts now, and are quite useless..most of them are not trained in dealing with satellite.

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#3329478 9-Jan-2025 11:16

It looks like I'll need to change something in my setup, but I'm not quite sure what at the moment.

I don't use the Sky STB anymore and use MediaPortal with a card reader. This has a 4-tuner card connected to a powered 6-way splitter.

Typically, I've configured the tuners with LNB settings of 10750 for both high and low and a switch of 0.

I have been able to see the channels on Optus 10, but it's very intermittent. I powered the Sky box on the other day, and it couldn't access the test channel when plugged into the splitter, but it could if plugged in directly.

I still need to try one of the PC tuner cards plugged directly into the dish, but I would like to understand if this is a potential signal degradation issue via the splitter or just something about accessing multiple satellites via a splitter. Is this a case where I need to use the second LNB via the 22hz tone or something?

I would appreciate any help I can get, both to understand how all this works and to get it working going forward.

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#3329480 9-Jan-2025 11:25

Optus 10 transponders are vertically polarized so LNB needs 13 VDC (and 22 kHz tone) rather than 18 VDC.

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#3329491 9-Jan-2025 11:58

GV27:

Mine is stuffed most of the time now, just tells me no signal and nothing registering in the settings of the box itself.

We previously could see channel 888 but now we have no picture at all.

Update: all sorted, Sky tech initially replaced the LNB but still couldn't get more than 11db so he moved the dish to the deck and we're getting 12-13db. Sky works all day and night now.

He said he was very busy lol 😆

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