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<blockquote data-quote="TCSC47" data-source="post: 803368" data-attributes="member: 388907"><p>The BBC is going to put on 24 channels of Olympics which will be too many to squeeze into terrestrial. As far as I am aware they will be on satellite and possibly the www.</p><p></p><p>I also know little of satellite, so I've just bought and installed a Labgear HDSR300 kit (dish, cable, mounting hardware, receiver). At the moment it is on offer at £42 from Screwfix (Hope mentioning this is not against the rules here) so I bought it as a learning exercise. Not worried if it all goes titsup for the money. Chuffed to bits to get it going in time to have HD for Euro football! The thing actually works! Not superbly mind you. You get what you pay for. The EPG is too basic to be of much help and if you scan through the program display the reciever immediately tunes to the channel as soon as you move you cursor onto it. Irritating. </p><p></p><p>Also the video and sound are not syncronised on the HD channels. I'm presently in the process of trying to find out how to update the software, if this is where the problem may be, but the reciever user manual is a little bit too basic to tell me exactly how to do this. But as I say, it is a learning exercise.</p><p></p><p>I had some help from my son and I don't think I could have done it all by myself. Biggest problem was that we initially aligned to the wrong satellite. The fact that all the stations were in German should have been the give away, but it took me some time to figure out what was going on. My son googled the station frequencies and came up with the fact that the sat we needed, Astra 28.2E, was 10 deg to the East of the one we had. Sure enough there it was and the thing has been working brilliantly. </p><p></p><p>The reciever will take a portable hard drive through usb port to record programs, but that is extra. I have yet to try that out. Again there is very little in the user manual on how to do this.</p><p></p><p>The hardware of the dish and mountings look a bit light weight, but it is up on the side of my house and working. Time will tell how durable it is, but as I have said already, you usually get what you pay for.</p><p></p><p>I didn't use a sat finder, but used the TV display to give signal strength and signal quality after initially simply pointing the dish in the rough direction with a map compass. Elevation was a bit of a problem because the LNB is at an angle to the dish with the result that although the dish installation leaflet tells you to aim the dish at an elevation of about 24 deg, where we live, it was about 10 deg. less than this in actual fact. I felt this was a bit remiss of the instructions, not to mention this. In the end I moved the dish a few deg at a time in the general direction of the sat with my son shouting up the signal quality reading from the sitting room. Patience was needed as initially I was moving the dish too far in each step and shot over Astra. Got it right in the end though with smaller movements.</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TCSC47, post: 803368, member: 388907"] The BBC is going to put on 24 channels of Olympics which will be too many to squeeze into terrestrial. As far as I am aware they will be on satellite and possibly the www. I also know little of satellite, so I've just bought and installed a Labgear HDSR300 kit (dish, cable, mounting hardware, receiver). At the moment it is on offer at £42 from Screwfix (Hope mentioning this is not against the rules here) so I bought it as a learning exercise. Not worried if it all goes titsup for the money. Chuffed to bits to get it going in time to have HD for Euro football! The thing actually works! Not superbly mind you. You get what you pay for. The EPG is too basic to be of much help and if you scan through the program display the reciever immediately tunes to the channel as soon as you move you cursor onto it. Irritating. Also the video and sound are not syncronised on the HD channels. I'm presently in the process of trying to find out how to update the software, if this is where the problem may be, but the reciever user manual is a little bit too basic to tell me exactly how to do this. But as I say, it is a learning exercise. I had some help from my son and I don't think I could have done it all by myself. Biggest problem was that we initially aligned to the wrong satellite. The fact that all the stations were in German should have been the give away, but it took me some time to figure out what was going on. My son googled the station frequencies and came up with the fact that the sat we needed, Astra 28.2E, was 10 deg to the East of the one we had. Sure enough there it was and the thing has been working brilliantly. The reciever will take a portable hard drive through usb port to record programs, but that is extra. I have yet to try that out. Again there is very little in the user manual on how to do this. The hardware of the dish and mountings look a bit light weight, but it is up on the side of my house and working. Time will tell how durable it is, but as I have said already, you usually get what you pay for. I didn't use a sat finder, but used the TV display to give signal strength and signal quality after initially simply pointing the dish in the rough direction with a map compass. Elevation was a bit of a problem because the LNB is at an angle to the dish with the result that although the dish installation leaflet tells you to aim the dish at an elevation of about 24 deg, where we live, it was about 10 deg. less than this in actual fact. I felt this was a bit remiss of the instructions, not to mention this. In the end I moved the dish a few deg at a time in the general direction of the sat with my son shouting up the signal quality reading from the sitting room. Patience was needed as initially I was moving the dish too far in each step and shot over Astra. Got it right in the end though with smaller movements. Cheers [/QUOTE]
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