Sky Default Transponder Frequency Setting for Sky HD boxes on the Costa Blanca Spain

"What to do if you receive the message "NO SATELLITE SIGNAL BEING RECEIVED" on a Sky HD digibox receiver?"

When a Sky HD digibox is turned on the first time the first thing the box tries to do is, amongst other things, to download approximately 6 hours of EPG information from a specific default frequency (or Transponder) from the satellite. The digibox must have this information to start to work. Unfortunately, the default frequency (transponder) that the decoder is initially set to look for (11778) is one of the weaker signals in Spain and the Costa Blanca, especially during the afternoons, even on a 2.4m satellite dish! So should you experience one of Spains frequent power cuts during this period, your digibox may be unable to find this frequency, fail to boot up, and display the on screen message "No Satellite Signal Being Received". Therefore, to assist the digibox to receive the bare minimum information it requires boot up the default frequency must be changed to another frequency to enable the initial information download.

This shows you how to change the default frequency to help the box boot up.



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Sky Default Transponder Frequency Setting for Sky HD boxes on the Costa Blanca Spain