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Hi All, Could anyone give me advice on what I would need to receive TV from the Czech Republic (I live in Bedfordshire). I have been through many sites and have a rough idea of what I need but not 100% sure yet. I have the card which was posted to me from a friend in Czech. I will be installing it myself so any advice will be greatly appreciated. | ||
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Blog Entries: 3 My System: Sky+, DB 7000s, Gemini 4.3 in flash, Var on USB stick. Transparent 80cm Dish, Moteck SG2100 DiseqC motor, lots of legacy gear. Meters: Satlook Digital NIT, Unaohm EP313, Swires Annie 204 Spectrum, Rover ST-4 Spectrum. | Which package are you going for, the one on 23.5 East, or 1 West?
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My System: Satellite Dish 1.6m Hotbird 13E, DreamBox 7000S with Gemini 4.5.0; Dish 1.2m Amos 4W, Nokia 9600S; Nokia 9800S; Hauppauge Nexus-S PCI Card ![]() He battled for 3 days against the Tux and won! Hurray!! |
Full details about channels from LyngSat: http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/cslink.html You need a dish pointing to Astra Astra 1D / 3A, 23.5° E A receiver with CAM (Embedded or CI) with Cryptowork encryption support. | |||
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Blog Entries: 3 My System: Sky+, DB 7000s, Gemini 4.3 in flash, Var on USB stick. Transparent 80cm Dish, Moteck SG2100 DiseqC motor, lots of legacy gear. Meters: Satlook Digital NIT, Unaohm EP313, Swires Annie 204 Spectrum, Rover ST-4 Spectrum. | You will need a good quality 1.2m dish as a minimum from Bedfordshire, see this thread.
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My System: none yet | Here are the receivers I’m looking at all roughly the same price but not sure on ease off use and reliability. Any recommendations would be great. Also can anyone recommend a good make of dish and LNB? Phoenix Apollo Satellite Receiver CI+MultiCrypt+2Slots Technomate TM-1500 CI Super+ 1 x MultiCrypt 1 x Common Interface Technomate TM-1600 2CI Super+ 1 x MultiCrypt 2 x Common Interface Thanks Again Adam | ||
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Blog Entries: 3 My System: Sky+, DB 7000s, Gemini 4.3 in flash, Var on USB stick. Transparent 80cm Dish, Moteck SG2100 DiseqC motor, lots of legacy gear. Meters: Satlook Digital NIT, Unaohm EP313, Swires Annie 204 Spectrum, Rover ST-4 Spectrum. | The TM 1500 seems to be the receiver of choice amongst our Technomate owning members. ![]() A good performer at 1.2m is the Gilbertini, better still if you buy the dedicated feed and a C120 LNB.
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Blog Entries: 3 My System: Sky+, DB 7000s, Gemini 4.3 in flash, Var on USB stick. Transparent 80cm Dish, Moteck SG2100 DiseqC motor, lots of legacy gear. Meters: Satlook Digital NIT, Unaohm EP313, Swires Annie 204 Spectrum, Rover ST-4 Spectrum. | It is the bit which collects the signal (sorry, should read Feedhorn).
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My System: TM6800HD+TD110+StabHH90 motor,TM1000D+Orbital 1m +Moteck motor.45E to 45W. 2 x minidishes.DigitAlB movies. A Bigsat BS-S77CX and a Sky Dodgibox. |
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My System: Pace TDS470N Sky+ Receiver, Technomate TM-5400CI+ FTA Receiver, Raven Gemini 70cm Mesh Dish with East & West offset LNB brackets, 2 x MTI 0.2db Universal LNBs, MTI 0.2db Universal Quad Output LNB, Eurostar 4x1 DiSEqC Switch, Webro WF100 Cable | The TM-5400CI+ is a good box and is indeed designed as a replacement for the TM-1500CI+. It was only released to the market a week ago and I purposely held out for it to become available before buying a FTA receiver. It's very user friendly and very easy to use with the added ability to record to an external USB memory stick or USB hard drive although it does require a update download from the Technomate website before this functionality will work. I can certainly recommend this box for a beginner (as I also am ).It also has patches available as per the other Technomate 1000/1500/1600 series | ||
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My System: none yet | Finally got the system setup, had it installed on Monday. Originally I bought the Technomate 1500 CI but that turned out to be faulty. So now I have a Technomate 5300 D+ which I will attach an external HDD to . I have an 80cm dish and the picture is perfect. Not sure what make LNB was put on but it is 0.3db. Thanks again for all your help. | ||
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My System: TM6800HD+TD110+StabHH90 motor,TM1000D+Orbital 1m +Moteck motor.45E to 45W. 2 x minidishes.DigitAlB movies. A Bigsat BS-S77CX and a Sky Dodgibox. |
Good one mate ![]() Did the card work straight in the receiver, and what was the card, was it the one mentioned above? | |||
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