Justin
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- My Satellite Setup
- Fortec Star 4400 / Windows XP
- My Location
- Bolton, Greater Manchester, England
Could anybody please help me with this?
I bought the Fortec Star 4400 from Maplin yesterday.
I spent ten hours yesterday afternoon/evening/night trying to tune-in all the FTA channels. It's driving me mad. 'O'-red
I live in a block of flats and the landlord installed a communal Satellite Dish, so I have no idea what model or size it is.
I figured out how to manually add the Eurobird 1 satellite to the Satellite List (28.5E) and the receiver has found some channels on a Blind Scan. I've also enabled all the other satellites in the Satellite List by "ticking them" in the appropriate menu. I've ran a Blind Scan on every single satellite now, countless times.
The channels which it has picked up are a mixture of Horizontal and Vertical - so after Googling (a lot) I believe that means that the LNB is fine.
I can't tune-in any of the ITV channels; No C4 channels; No C5; No BBC2, BBC3, BBC4...
All the receiver seems to pick-up is BBC1 (most of the regional variations), Zone Romantica, True Movies, Movies4Men, Movies4Men2, Movies4Men2+1, some lame quiz channels, Flava, NME TV, Scuzz, Flaunt, and countless scary channels featuring religious preaching or women writhing around in their underwear.
I bought the receiver predominantly so I could receive the Film24 channel. I know how to add the relevant satellite, manually add a TP and search the TP... It just keeps coming up with nothing.
Can anybody help?
I've updated the firmware from the Fortec website which doesn't appear to have made any difference - and in fact seems to be an earlier version than what was originally installed!
Would it be helpful if I wrote down which TPs fail when processing a Blind Scan on the Astra 2 and Eurobird 1 satellites?
I'm in Bolton, 53°35'N 02°26'W.
I bought the Fortec Star 4400 from Maplin yesterday.
I spent ten hours yesterday afternoon/evening/night trying to tune-in all the FTA channels. It's driving me mad. 'O'-red
I live in a block of flats and the landlord installed a communal Satellite Dish, so I have no idea what model or size it is.
I figured out how to manually add the Eurobird 1 satellite to the Satellite List (28.5E) and the receiver has found some channels on a Blind Scan. I've also enabled all the other satellites in the Satellite List by "ticking them" in the appropriate menu. I've ran a Blind Scan on every single satellite now, countless times.
The channels which it has picked up are a mixture of Horizontal and Vertical - so after Googling (a lot) I believe that means that the LNB is fine.
I can't tune-in any of the ITV channels; No C4 channels; No C5; No BBC2, BBC3, BBC4...
All the receiver seems to pick-up is BBC1 (most of the regional variations), Zone Romantica, True Movies, Movies4Men, Movies4Men2, Movies4Men2+1, some lame quiz channels, Flava, NME TV, Scuzz, Flaunt, and countless scary channels featuring religious preaching or women writhing around in their underwear.
I bought the receiver predominantly so I could receive the Film24 channel. I know how to add the relevant satellite, manually add a TP and search the TP... It just keeps coming up with nothing.
Can anybody help?
I've updated the firmware from the Fortec website which doesn't appear to have made any difference - and in fact seems to be an earlier version than what was originally installed!
Would it be helpful if I wrote down which TPs fail when processing a Blind Scan on the Astra 2 and Eurobird 1 satellites?
I'm in Bolton, 53°35'N 02°26'W.