Thanks to all everyone who has patiently advised me on setting up my caravan satellite system - I'VE DONE IT.
Over Easter we were away for 10 nights at Cae Mawr CC site on Anglesey and so that gave me the opportunity to have a good long session with my Sat equipment. I have a 66cm Maxview dish, LNB and tripod, bought secondhand a few months ago from another caravanner, and a new Humax HD box. I got the correct bearing using my compass and then laid out a garden cane along this bearing, Thanks JTQ for that suggestion. I then set up the dish on that bearing and with the dish roughly vertical. My son had set up the HD box using his Sky dish and so I connected to this and switched to the Diagnostics screen. After lots of slowly swinging the dish at varying elevations and skews I finally got a good signal strength and quatlity readings on the TV diaganostics display - it did take about 2 hours to achieve this!!!
I was able to receive a large number of both Freesat and FTA stations. I then pegged down the tripod with rock pegs and we sat back and enjoyed the TV programmes for the rest of our hols. Despite some wet and windy weather we had few problems with the satellite reception until the wind began gusting to gale force last Monday. I then took down the dish and packed it away and reverted to the freeview box signal from the van's Status 520 aerial. It was a good job that I did take the dish down then as the wind continued to strengthen and a couple of neigbouring 'vans lost their awngings.
So again a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who advised me. I know feel reasonably confident that I can set up the system successfully again and we are looking forward to using it in the UK and on the Continent in the summer.
Incidentally I never did find the electronic, plug-in, Maxview satellite signal finder to be of much use.
Regards
Tim
Over Easter we were away for 10 nights at Cae Mawr CC site on Anglesey and so that gave me the opportunity to have a good long session with my Sat equipment. I have a 66cm Maxview dish, LNB and tripod, bought secondhand a few months ago from another caravanner, and a new Humax HD box. I got the correct bearing using my compass and then laid out a garden cane along this bearing, Thanks JTQ for that suggestion. I then set up the dish on that bearing and with the dish roughly vertical. My son had set up the HD box using his Sky dish and so I connected to this and switched to the Diagnostics screen. After lots of slowly swinging the dish at varying elevations and skews I finally got a good signal strength and quatlity readings on the TV diaganostics display - it did take about 2 hours to achieve this!!!
I was able to receive a large number of both Freesat and FTA stations. I then pegged down the tripod with rock pegs and we sat back and enjoyed the TV programmes for the rest of our hols. Despite some wet and windy weather we had few problems with the satellite reception until the wind began gusting to gale force last Monday. I then took down the dish and packed it away and reverted to the freeview box signal from the van's Status 520 aerial. It was a good job that I did take the dish down then as the wind continued to strengthen and a couple of neigbouring 'vans lost their awngings.
So again a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who advised me. I know feel reasonably confident that I can set up the system successfully again and we are looking forward to using it in the UK and on the Continent in the summer.
Incidentally I never did find the electronic, plug-in, Maxview satellite signal finder to be of much use.
Regards
Tim
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