Thanks Chris S, Diver300 and Little Jim
Just off the phone with John Lewis tech support, who confirmed the tele
does have a built in Freesat tuner and does not require a "set top box". The only diagnostic advice offered was to turn it off for a minute in case of static issues and try again. I had done a factory reset also this morning to no avail.
Please could the most helpful panel concur with my assumption that
if the tele
isn't communicating successfully with the satellite dish and my old bodged up coaxial wiring (whose connections I completely remade today just in case) are functioing, the tele would
not recognise the satellite's identification as: "ASTRA 28.2E"
?Here's a couple of pics of the tuning process and the zero result:
John Lewis are sending a replacement new TV next Wednesday. In the meantime I will borrow my neighbour's Sky box and tele tomorrow - to confirm (or not) the dish and cabling are working upsteps here in Snowdon Towers (I wouldn't know how to dial, where to prod and poke a voltmeter, if I had one
)
Edited to undo knicker twists