Recent content by TheProfRobin

Hiya Ray. And welcome. I live just to the north of Nimes & Avignon and my best info for you, good news, based on curves I got by running software on a very reliable site is that a 95cm dish should do for you, so first of all, your 110cm should be hunky dory. You WILL be in business. Take...

Hi Paul, I am pretty sure I checked the spot beam map - although reality of course can be different. With a 95cm dish 20 miles NW of Avignon, I have no problems to date with any channels, unless we have one of those 6 inches of rain in 2 hours type of downfall.

I had another think here. Both Sky and Freesat download firmware updates to your box, usually during the night. If your box was off while you were away I mean off and not on stand by, then it would not have had any updates regarding channel frequency changes and so you would get blanks on any...

Yes geordiejohn, I totally agree. I recall walking past a hi-def demo in John Lewis in Spring 2006 and being blown over. I ordered one there and then for the summer footie; nothing like seeing an English footballing disaster in close up. Where I live I have French subscription to Canal + and...

Judith, Given the timing of your original post and the fact that you have a big dish and you were away during the November big winds, I suspect your dish could do with a re-tweak to get it accurately aligned again. If you are losing signal in medium rain, this is a sure sign. Being a big dish...