Satellite Television Tuning

If your Avtex is a fairly old model it might benefit from a software update to update the transponders, the older models had a generic satellite reciever which should pick up all free to air channels and will not sort channels automatically.

As above, things are always changing in the Satellite tv arena, just like at home on DTV the odd retune/update is required.

some proprietary ones like Sky manage all this themselves which makes life pretty straightforward.

I retuned several times and only got the same 5 stations scattered throughout the whole list of 165 that the tv said it had found. All others showed "No Information" and weren't live. I even checked with the site owner that I had selected the correct satellite (Astra 2E which was the default). It's the first time I've relied on a satellite and, hopefully the last, if this is going to be a problem. I suppose an email to Avtex may help.

John

Just a thought, if the supplied signal, via a cable, is already coming via the sites satellite tuner have you tried connecting a cable from the bollard (which I assume is where the site cable comes to?) directly into the TV and using the normal aerial as a source rather than the satellite tuner? It might be worth a try. If you managed to get a full range of programmes I am sure you will find the local TV channel.

David

I was interested in this as our Avtex has a satellite tuner and apart from an initial test I haven’t used it since we bought it 3 years ago. Don’t know if it will help but it seems there are software updates availableHERE certainly for our model. It seems you have to download onto a USB thumb drive and then  insert it into the TV. A bit difficult for us now as unless I crank up the old windows machine none of our devices has a USB slot.

I sort of agree with David....you don't actually know what's coming down the pipe. These channels might already have been bundled into an RF package just like site supplied 'normal' tv aerial cables.

If you have access to a dish, try a normal set up and scan, this will eliminate any problems with the tv.

Just to clarify, the CL had a large satellite dish with long cables running to each of the 5 pitches. If the pitch user's tv wasn't satellite enabled the owner would loan a decoder box. As our tv was satellite enabled we decided that we wouldn't need to borrow one. As far as we knew, all the others on site (that had a tv) were picking it up ok. It was really a case of what, if anything, we were doing wrong. I'll look into SteveL's suggestion about a software update but, to be honest, in 8 years that we have had the tv it is the only time when we have needed the satellite facility. I'm just very curious about why it didn't work as, perhaps, it should. Unfortunately I don't know anyone with a satellite dish that I could test the tv with as per YT's suggestion.

Just looked at Avtex link. It doesn't appear a as though there is an update available.

Your tv might be sd signal up grade to hd free to view box and connect to tv bbc so signal now defunct this will work done it for my mate 

So we know a bit more now. Basically you are getting a raw feed direct from the LNB on the dish by the sounds of it.? This may sound silly but you are feeding that into the F socket on the TV rather than the Co-Ax? If you have not already done so I think I would connect the cable from the dish directly into the TV by putting the cable through a caravan window and just see if the direct feed into the satellite tuner improves the signal, sometimes running it through the caravan system can weaken the signal strength. If all else fails you still have the option of the loan of a decoder.

David

If the TV is 8 years old it will be as Vulcan says the transponder list will need updating. You will need to go into the "Advanced" menu and add missing transponders/make corrections to the list from consulting a web site like >Lyng Sat<. I doubt that the available software updates will apply for such an old set but ring Avtex and ask, they are very helpful people.

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