Freesat

[Spurs]

I have a 1.4m dish in Spain that works fine on uk channels, but the box that was supplied with it is only standard definition . If I took a Uk HD freesat box out to Spain will it work and will it pick up HD and do you have to alter it in anyway .?
Here’s hoping someone knows

[kevinb]

I had a 1.4m dish installed last October, works well on standard definition but HD channels are not reliable, disappear when it rains where with standard definition I still get good reception. I'm using a Humax box in the lounge and a Manhattan box in our bedroom both give the same signal performance, I've tweaked the LNB skew and it's very sensitive to small changes .

[wilson]

Kev we’ve had a 1.9m dish for 20 years and always run it through redundant sky boxes, the last one is pretty dated now, so which freesat box in your opinion is the better one?

[Spurs]

I had a 1.4m dish installed last October, works well on standard definition but HD channels are not reliable, disappear when it rains where with standard definition I still get good reception. I'm using a Humax box in the lounge and a Manhattan box in our bedroom both give the same signal performance, I've tweaked the LNB skew and it's very sensitive to small changes .

Thanks Kevin do you have to change any settings in the box or does it just work the same as uk

[kevinb]

I had my Humax box set to my post code in Suffolk and it worked straight away on my new dish in GA, I have read that inputting a Channel Islands post code gives good results, as some transponders cover our location on the CB better than others. Next time I go out I'm putting my cheap non Freesat receiver into work and going to look at what channels are strongest, there's loads of duplicate channels like the BBC's , CH4's and ITV's some hold up better than others. When we were out last October Dave , Drama and Yesterday were available until late evening, the visit we've just had up to the 25th January these channels were gone by 17:00 hrs. Good luck.