Recent content by confusedbaffled

satelliteman and channel hopper many thanks for your replies. the actuator looks like it is probably more than a decade old, but I am not sure, since we are in a rented property. there is a lot of wind in this district, so I would guess it has taken a bit of punishment over the years. BUT, as...

Howling gales, lashing rain for days on end.... seem to have done something to my actuator. We can still get a good signal on most satellites, particularly the Astras, Hotbird & Nilesat, which are our main sources here in North Africa. But the actuator makes a really, really alarming noise as it...

I seem to have pinned down the problem a bit more finely now: it seems to happen with channels (mainly on A.BIRD3) whose names appear in BLACK in the channel directory, when I call up a list (with green button on RCU). Most appear in a white font, and don't cause any problems at all. But some...

Many thanks for the advice, Mickha. I have started adding them back, as you recommended and will be selective in my choices! A.BIRD3 channels still seem to produce the same problem. Once I select a channel on A.BIRD3, eg TF1, the screen goes blank as the dish reorientates (rather than shows the...

thanks for the pointers. i have done a factory reset to clear some of the debris and now apparently have plenty of clear memory. only problem is that now i cannot for the life of me get a stronger signal on A.BIRD3 than about 14 percent. Dunno what I have done wrong. The sat used not to be near...

Hi aba and thanks for the reply. The screen shows echonav 3.04-V1000, boot version 0.90. That appears to be way behind yours, but when I try to download new software from satellite, it pops up with a message saying no new software available or sommat like that. I sometimes also get a "memory...

Greetings from a newby. I have browsed a bit and not found my answers, so hope some of you experts can aim me in the right direction. I have the above gear, but for some reason the system always hangs when I select channels on ABIRD3 (French channels). I don't know if it has something to do with...