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Thread: Do Unicable LNBs work with cheap sat meters?

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    Ojustaboo

    Do Unicable LNBs work with cheap sat meters?

    New dish and LNB arrived today. Installed dish, cant find any signals with either my needle style meter or my digisat meter. Put normal LNB in (that came with dish) and had no problem finding them.

    Is this normal or is my unicable LNB faulty?

    Thanks

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    On my V8 sat meter you have to set the tuner as unicable/jess and allocate an scr for it to work.
    Probably won't work on a standard meter.

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    Ojustaboo
    Thanks. I'll set it up with the normal LNB and hopefully swapping them over works, else time to spend more money

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    Ojustaboo
    Dam, set it up perfectly with normal LNB, switched lnb over, and zero channels found. was hoping they were standard in that I wouldn't need to adjust the dish again. that's of course presuming I've set up the sat box properly.

    Anyone know of a CHEAP meter that works with Unicable please?

    Thanks

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    Check cabling!! Especially the connectors ... in fact wrap the connectors with tape so that they cannot loosen.
    If the dish is locked tight and you have just changed the LNB then it should work... but connectors can be an issue.
    Gigablue Quad 4K & UE 4K
    .........FBC Tuners:
    ------------------> DUR-Line DCR 5-1-8-L4 Multiswitch to 1.5M dish(28.2E)
    ------------------> Spaun SUS 5581/33 NFA Multiswitch to 80 cm dish(19.2E)
    .......................> FBC & DVB-S2X into 90cm dish (27.5W) Opticum robust Unicable LNB
    AX HD61, Edision Osmio 4K+, Zgemma H9Combo, Octagon SF8008 , gbtrio4k, h9se using Legacy ports on multiswitches
    Zgemma H9 C/S into Giga4K

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    Have you set the tuners on the receiver correctly?
    It has to be advanced and LNB as Unicable/Jess.

    There's some info in this post

    https://www.world-of-satellite.com/s...0PP-FBC-tuners
    Last edited by Willo3092; 11-12-18 at 18:48.

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    Ojustaboo
    I think I have. I've been doing all this on my old GB Quad, trying to get all cabling etc sorted before installing new TV and new sat box, could that make any difference?

    sat11.jpgsat12.jpg

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    Looks the same as my setup apart from the brand of LNB

    FBC-Unicable.jpg

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    Ojustaboo
    Just tried it on the new sat box. Still nothing

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    Ojustaboo
    Would help if I wasn't a stupid idiot

    I stupidly presumed the make and model were read from the LNB. You saying your model was different, I checked mine

    All working now

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