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Wow! I have the switch tucked up inside a little plastic box to keep it dry; there were a couple of tiny spiders in it when I opened up, but nothing more. That's an impressive amount of water to collect inside the cable! I'll bear it in mind something else to keep watch for... Many thanks for...

LOL, always good to get some money-saving tips! I will give it a sharp tap, and see what happens!

Thank you! I realised I had a spare switch - just swapped them over, and you are absolutely correct, the switch must have died - I have scanned with the new switch, and now have a full complement of British channels - and a happy hubby! :)

Definitely no toddlers! I wonder about the switch, though – do you think that the receiver would still be saying that it was showing content from the second satellite input, even while actually showing channels from 19.2?

Cables and connections all check out okay – tried that before getting into the painful procedure of using the satellite signal finder!

Thanks for replying so quickly. I have always had a mix of German channels and other stuff, as well as British channels from 28.2, as far as I can tell. The receiver allows you to switch between output from each of the two satellites, and there is a multitude of European channels as well as UK...

Hi – I hope someone can shed some light on what my problem might be. Set up in Northern France with two satellite dishes feeding into one receiver, in order to receive French channels on Astra 19.2 and British on Astra 28.2. A couple of weeks ago, BBC and ITV channels stopped appearing...

Update on my dead box! It being the weekend, and having a bit of spare time, decided to take a look inside while waiting for the replacement capacitors to arrive. All looked very clean, and no signs of capacitors with bulges or leaky goo… Also didn't look like the photographs I had seen...

Thanks for coming up with these suggestions: with a bit of luck, I'll be able to get the Humax working again, otherwise I will check out the twin tuner boxes you mention...

Thank you! I've ordered from Mike Cartwright, now just have to hone my soldering skills ;)

Not the cables or LNB - I've got my back up box working with them... guess I'll brave the capacitors!

Good tip! I will do some more checking, before jumping to conclusions...

Wow – that's interesting. My symptoms aren't like the ones describes in the other thread: generally, the box boots itself okay, then says that it can't find any satellite signal – which I know is not the case, as my other TV and box are working fine with the same satellite dishes. Is this still...

thank you! I will investigate those...

Hello My Humax Foxsat box has died after two years. I was very happy with the way it worked; not quite so impressed by how long it lasted! I'm now looking for a new receiver/recorder, which needs to work with two satellite dishes (fed via a DiSeqC switch) to one television. Is a Humax Foxsat...