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05-02-2007
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| Member Join Date: 05-02-2007 Location: isle of wight
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Hello, I have a motorised system that I have not used for a few years - my kids subscribed to sky and my system got mothballed. I have recentley moved to the isle of wight where the reception for normal tv is pretty drastic - kids have gone - so i am digging out my old system to use again. I have a chaparral monterey with a 1.2mtr. dish. It used to be a bit of a hobby for me some years ago but i am now out of touch with all the latest equipment. I would appreciate any advice on starting up again, for example is it still worth setting up the chaparall? Is there much analogue stuff still out there? I have been looking at a topfield - TC5000CIP because it has a built in positioner that should alow me to use my old gear. Any advice greatly appreciated thanks v.m. | ||
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05-02-2007
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| Sky Remote Breaker...  Join Date: 05-01-2006 Location: Near Pendle Hill, Lancashire
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My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! | Best thing for you is a new LNB & cable (CT100), a VBOXII (a DiSEqC to 36v positioner) and a Technomate 1500CI+ receiver. There's not much left in Analogue these days (see www.analoguesat.co.uk for the channels) and most of these channels are in digital and some are free to air still...  Hope that helps... 
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05-02-2007
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| Specialist Contributor Join Date: 07-08-2005 Location: west yorkshire, uk
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My System: 90cm channel master, jaeger 1224 ,vantage x221tsci, skystar 2, diablo v2.3, setanta on 60cm minidish | keep the dish and maybe buy a new motor if it takes a 36volt actuator and lnb cable wise use some wf100 reciever wise theres the topfield you mentioned or the manhattan 450 or 500 which have 36v positioners or there is the technomate 1500 receiver which can be patched to get more channels and use a vbox to convert the 36volt to diseqc 1.2 | ||
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