help with Zinwell 7000FTA

[murkymurk]

Hi all,

This forum seems fairly technical so apologies in advance for for being pretty clueless about all of this.. ! I have just been given a zinwell 7000 FTA DTS reciever and as I have an exisiting sky dish thought I'd be able to just hook it up and recieve freeview channels... :rolleyes:

Question is - can I do this ? and if so do I need to point the sky dish to a different satellite or would the one it was configured to point to (last connected to sky in Nov 07) give me freeview ?

If the Satellite is correct, how do I configure the box to pickup the right channels ? In the config screens it has optus B1 & B3 and lots of numbers to play with ...

Currently when connecting it, I just get 0% signal strength and quality so it can't find any channels...

So go easy on me guys - is the STB junk or do I need to get on the roof ? or both !?

Cheers, Mark

[Injuised]

Im suprised to see one of these still going

Dont move your dish, it should be pointed at Optus D1 , what used to be B1

Probably delete all the transponder settings on B1 and start again

12456 Horizontal SR22500
12483 Horizontal SR22500

Lnb settings Local Oscillator should be either 11300 or 10750
11300 if you have a round type LNB
Hope this helps

[murkymurk]

Thanks for the response - I'll give it a go tonight....

[murkymurk]

Unfortunately no joy.... I tried the settings posted but still no channels found... would you exect the signal strength / quality to be > 0% before entering these settings ? Because it just sits at 0% both before and after.... I have checked the cabling but all seems ok.... There are also some settings for DiSEqC, Power and 22k but altering these doesn't seem to make any difference....

Is there something I can plug into the satellite cable to see if it is returning a signal ?

All help much appreciated....

[Injuised]

DiSEqC should be off
LNB Power should be on
22 Khz should be off

Only way to check the dish would be to stick a meter on the end of the cable
or if you have a STB that you know goes on that type of LNB

These old Zinwells didnt have a good reputation , so maybe its time for the scrap heap