Setting Up Satellite Dish: HotBird & Astra, Ferguson FX-6600 Tuner, Golden Interstar GI-201 LNB

Your dish is probably pointed at Astra, not Hotbird, so the tuner can show signal percentages on Hotbird transponders without actually locking and finding channels [#5415851] The fix is to move the dish to the real Hotbird position, or if you want both satellites, use a second offset LNB (monoblock/squint) with a DiSEqC switch; one dish can receive both only with that kind of setup [#5416628] Keep LNB power turned on, use the Universal LNB setting, and don’t over-focus on every transponder reading because some tuners display misleading values [#5417426] [#5415851] For alignment, the simplest advice in the thread was to tune the dish on one known Hotbird channel such as Viva Polska and maximize its quality, then let the receiver do an automatic channel search [#5418382] [#5451875] If you want a more stable reference, set the dish first using a stronger Astra transponder and then fine-adjust toward Hotbird, but the key point remains that the dish must be physically aimed at the satellite you want [#6163099]