Oyster Digital CI failed in Spain, wife unhappy Forums

JohnWebb

I have an Oyster Digital CI with a Gold Twin LNB and am in Spain near Castellon. One LNB is connected to the Oyster controller and one to a PACE Sky box. The dish was finding Astra 2, and other satellites, but is now failing to find anything but the Spanish satellite. That is found with insufficient signal strength to give a picture and the signal strength is fluctuating wildly. I have tried swapping the LNBs in case one has failed but that makes no difference. Logically I conclude the Oyster controller is OK as it does lock to Hispanosat (whatever?!) and there may be a problem with the dish mechanics and LNB connections. I simply dont know enough. Any suggestions please?

J T Webb

DollarYen · Account Deactivated

I have the same set up, with 85cm dish. I wouldn't expect to get anything through the pace box in Castellon. If you can get the Oyster to log on to Astra 2 then look at channel 1000, i always find that is the strongest signal. You should then be able to go up the channel list from there and find sky news and a few shopping channels. My signal gave up on the pace box north of Valencia. All the experts will tell you that you need at least a 1.3 metre dish where you are.

Rapide561

Hi

Agreed with the above. When I have been in really poor reception area, I find that channels like BBC Oxford have a much stronger signal than BBC North. Equally, ITV London seems to do well too.

Russell

JohnWebb

I know there is a problem at this far south but it will not give a decent signal on the spanish satellite and I have used a Maxview dish on a previous van here. I have a real problem I think!

JohnWebb

Point is, it wont even find Astra 2 at all, goes round in circles

pelicanpete

Snelly · Eastern Rally Co-ordinator

Try Sky News while the dish is trying to lock, its on the south beam and one of your best bets for getting a signal. Also check "F-Type" connections on the end of the coax, it only takes one strand from the outer sheaf to be touching the inner core to short the system out and render it u/s.

JohnWebb

I have now managed to get Sky News and C5. Still very puzzled why I can not get other satellites. Thanks for the help!
John Webb

Briarose

Hi we have the oyster dish and whilst I am no expert on this, we did manage to get ITV 3 whilst in the Algarve by moving the LNB to 8 o clock as others have suggested, before we did this we couldn't get much at all, reception was usually brilliant during the morning whilst getting a little sketchy on ITV 3 towards 8pm.........sometimes if my Husband manually moved the dish from the inside of the MH by one degree that helped too and some evenings could get ITV 3 until well after 9pm.

We always managed to get channel 5 though

Rapide561

Hi

As you have got some channels, this means you are locked on to the satellite OK. You can check this by pressing SERVICES on the SKY remote control box and then options 4 and 6. It should show LOCK OK on the screen.

If you are locked ok, then have a look at the website below for a list of channels you can expect to get in certain areas.