B&Q Satellite - Ross freesat box and dish

[levi1989]

Hi there, just restored my box to default I have scanned and downloaded my channels but I have searched through all 500 + and cannot find BBC ONE HD and my BBC HD has no signal.

Anybody got any ideas why bbc one hd is not there at all, do I need to scan something else for that?

many thanks to any replys

[Kymmy]

It's already been explained a number of times in this thread how to get the HD channels..

[soldierboy001]

Hi Chris, just come onto this forum and been reading some back stuff as well as this newer stuff and I'd just like to point out that you continually state that signal strength is the quality of the conections between the LNB and the set top box. This is incorrect as yes you must have 100% connections but signal stregth is the measure of the signal being recieved at the LNB.
This can be proven if you go to different channels and read the readings there. In my case this is confirmed in my set up done by a qualified installer.I have a perfectly aligned dish and quality connection with a quad LNB by the best. This is connected to an Humax Foxsat PVR, now on the usual channels from BBC and ITV etc. I get 100% signal strength but go to some of the lesser channels and I get 80% & 90%. Quality is a measure of the signal being sent and can vary,even though strength is 100% due to several reasons in the chain and can vary even as you sit and watch the signal bar.
These facts can be confirmed simply be going on to any specialist web page.

[paddy2011]

I have a Ross dish and its pointed at the Astra Satellite. I can recieve all the channels on it in my attic (cable lenght 30foot from dish) but to get the cable down to the sitting room I had to join it twice with gold plated connectors(overall cable lenght from dish to tv in sitting room 70foot). In the sitting room I can only get about 40 different channels (mostly ITV's and BBC's) with Signal Strength 77% Picture Quality 63%. Can anybody tell me definitively is this because of the joining of the cables or is my dish not pointed presisely enough.

[Kymmy]

For those sometimes asking me what they can get on their FTA sat within this thread here's a great little site

http://www.robssatellitetv.webs.com/

You may need a twin LNB or a diseqc motor as it covers lots of sats..

[liammackie]

Hello All,

i am having a problem with my ross Freesat kit everything is up and running but i am unable to receive any of the 5 channels ie Channel 5, 5*, 5*+1 and some of the cbs channels plus a few others any ideas of how to find these channels i have been thinking of buying a signal booster even thoughstrength and quality are both over 70%

[Kymmy]

Ch5/BBC and a few other channels have recently moved to Astra 1N from Astra 2D so your transponder list may be incorrect.. Not sure how to correct that on the ROSS boxes except to say that a complete rescan of the sat should correct the issue. If it fails then try a manual channel entry using the details at kingofsat.com or lyngsat.com

[AZIMUTH]

robsat vg kymmy

[Kymmy]

Regarding Ch5, just noticed that my box isn't getting the same channels either so it's not a ROSS box fault.. Will investigate

---------- Post added at 11:55 ---------- Previous post was at 11:39 ----------

OK, just found out that my transponder list didn't have the update new transponder for service scanning.. No idea how to edit the transponder lists on the ROSS box but you need to add (or manually scan) by doing so it'll find 10 new services which will be the missing channels.

Freq=10964
Pol=Horizontal
FEC=5/6
Symbol Rate=22000

If you find any other channels missing just confirm the frew/pol/fec/sym on Lyngsat and manually add/scan those details

[liammackie]

Thanks or that i will have to look into it thing is i have the normal SD Ross Box and not sure how to do this?

[Kymmy]

Not sure if this is your manual http://www.ross.co.uk/resources/SD-d...structions.pdf

If it is then page 12 "add a TP" (TP = transponder) and use the details I gave you

[levi1989]

I spent forever setting up my channel list, editing and deleting many channels to get everything in the perfect order (a good few hours) all worked fine but now my channel 5 has stopped working, says signal is there but its just a black screen. Anybody have any idea of what I can do without having to reinstall it all again?

Many thanks to any replies


EDIT
Ah just scrolled up and seen other people with this problem.

FIXED Dont know where I'd be without this forum!

[Kymmy]

As stated in the previous posts just manually scan the single transponder with the details given in post #504

[levi1989]

Ah yeah thankyou didnt see that post, sorry.

I have managed to get back all my channels now and have finally figured out how to save/edit then in the future without having to restore to factory settings and start from the beginning again!

I have searched the 4 HD frequency though and it still doesent pick up any channels using 12606 27500 which having searched the internet is the fequency for 4 HD.

[levi1989]

To my above post I have found channel 4 HD on 11127 V 22000

For anybody else who has this problem