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Grandad56 · 15-11-2011, 01:59

Hi all, thought I would add my experience of the Ross SD system. It was on offer at B&Q for £25. I bought it and dutifully read the instructions. I mounted the dish on my south facing wall and aligned it to the correct satellite, (so I thought). I got 70% signal strenght and 65% signal quality. The receiver started to add channels. Great I thought, but no BBC, ITV etc. Various visits to internet sites and I was starting to understand that this was not going to be as simple as I thought. Suspected I might be either hitting the wrong sat, or maybe the roof of the old peoples home opposite was in the line of site. I made an extension to the wall fitting, no change, even tried realigning, but signal strenth meter was unable to find anything at other locations. Using the data from the Lyngsat site, I created a new list of TPs and discovered that if the polarity was V, I had to change it to H and vice versa. Another disturbing feature was the remote kept switching my music center on? I then purchased a Bush Freesat box from Argos. It wouldn't accept my postcode and when using the default setting, it added all the channels, but either generated 'No Signal' or 'Service not available' I swapped it for a Goodmans box as the support line suspected it might be duff, same problem and the time was an hour behind? If I added the channels with TP, frequencies and Polarity, (again changing V to H and vice versa), I got good reception in non Freesat mode and the relevant channels became available in Freesat mode, also the time was correct. Lack of EPG prompted me to purchase a Sky type dish with quad LNB from Ebay and once aligned, I connected the Goodmans box. Lo and behold, it worked first time. I can only assume that the LNB on the Ross dish was faulty. I intend to purchase an HD box for the TV in the living room and use the SD in the kitchen. Will I buy the Ross HD box? I don't think so.

15-11-2011, 01:59	#459
Grandad56 Inactive Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 1	Re: B&Q Satellite - Ross freesat box and dish Hi all, thought I would add my experience of the Ross SD system. It was on offer at B&Q for £25. I bought it and dutifully read the instructions. I mounted the dish on my south facing wall and aligned it to the correct satellite, (so I thought). I got 70% signal strenght and 65% signal quality. The receiver started to add channels. Great I thought, but no BBC, ITV etc. Various visits to internet sites and I was starting to understand that this was not going to be as simple as I thought. Suspected I might be either hitting the wrong sat, or maybe the roof of the old peoples home opposite was in the line of site. I made an extension to the wall fitting, no change, even tried realigning, but signal strenth meter was unable to find anything at other locations. Using the data from the Lyngsat site, I created a new list of TPs and discovered that if the polarity was V, I had to change it to H and vice versa. Another disturbing feature was the remote kept switching my music center on? I then purchased a Bush Freesat box from Argos. It wouldn't accept my postcode and when using the default setting, it added all the channels, but either generated 'No Signal' or 'Service not available' I swapped it for a Goodmans box as the support line suspected it might be duff, same problem and the time was an hour behind? If I added the channels with TP, frequencies and Polarity, (again changing V to H and vice versa), I got good reception in non Freesat mode and the relevant channels became available in Freesat mode, also the time was correct. Lack of EPG prompted me to purchase a Sky type dish with quad LNB from Ebay and once aligned, I connected the Goodmans box. Lo and behold, it worked first time. I can only assume that the LNB on the Ross dish was faulty. I intend to purchase an HD box for the TV in the living room and use the SD in the kitchen. Will I buy the Ross HD box? I don't think so.