Got Freesat!

I had quite a good Freesat signal at my old house at Plazac, until the pine trees next door began to block out the signal that is. I want to have Freesat back again in my new house and mounted the satellite dish that I sourced from the UK on the wall in readiness a few weeks ago. I haven’t been able to try it out though, because of other priorities and anyway, when I checked the socket that the electrician installed in the living room I found that I needed to buy a new cable with a female connector plug.

The cable arrived today and late this afternoon I took my satellite finder up to the top of my ladder and aligned the dish as best I could. I then had to take my TV and Humax box into my new living room and run a power cable as well because the house hasn’t yet been connected to electricity. When I connected the system up, it appeared that the channels that were previously stored in the Humax box were still there but with all of the tweaking and fiddling I lost them and had to perform another channel search after I’d got the best signal that I could from the 28.2E satellite that hosts Freesat along with Sky and various other channels.

Lo and behold, although it was almost impossible to find the optimum alignment because my satellite finder was just too variable and unstable, Freesat came up as before on my TV.

I don’t think that I’ve got the optimum dish alignment because although all of the standard radio and TV stations are present and working, only the BBC HD channels have been recognized whereas I’m sure that I had them at Plazac. But I’m going to leave things be for now and probably won’t do any more fiddling until after I’ve moved in as I have other things to attend to. If what I have now is the best signal possible, though, unfortunately I think I’ll need to go for a bigger diameter dish. Anyway, I’ll have to wait and see..