priorysw
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Hi folks,
An excellent forum, as a satellite newbie I'm learning loads. I've recently bought the cheapest satellite receiver I could find - Nikkai A51JA - to see if a sky dish on my house is working or not. Plugged it in and ...it seems to be working fine. The receiver setup shows that I am picking up the following satellites: Astra 1f, 1g, 1h, 1kr / Astra 1e, Optus D1 / Hotbird 6, 7, 8 / Eurobird 9 / Astra 2a - b - c - d.
Hopefully you can help me with the following:
In my system setup on the receiver, when I check strength and quality for "Astra 1f, 1g, 1h, 1kr" both return 0. But I can view channels 4685 - 4399 (the usual UK fare) on this satellite. Why is this?
It seems I am also picking up FTA channels 0001 - 0988 on this satellite but I can't see them. Why?
When I list the FTA channels across all of the satellites I cannot view most of the programs on them. For example, Hotbird gives me a list of channels and programs but I can't view them, I get "no signal" or "no audio/video". Why is this?
Finally, is the EPG different depending on your satellite receiver? The EPG I'm getting is woeful. At best it shows what's currently on, at worst it shows no program info at all. Is this usual?
I did warn you I was a newbie!! Apologies if the questions should be split across topics but I thought there might be one thing I'm doing wrong that would solve all problems
Many thanks. Tommy.
An excellent forum, as a satellite newbie I'm learning loads. I've recently bought the cheapest satellite receiver I could find - Nikkai A51JA - to see if a sky dish on my house is working or not. Plugged it in and ...it seems to be working fine. The receiver setup shows that I am picking up the following satellites: Astra 1f, 1g, 1h, 1kr / Astra 1e, Optus D1 / Hotbird 6, 7, 8 / Eurobird 9 / Astra 2a - b - c - d.
Hopefully you can help me with the following:
In my system setup on the receiver, when I check strength and quality for "Astra 1f, 1g, 1h, 1kr" both return 0. But I can view channels 4685 - 4399 (the usual UK fare) on this satellite. Why is this?
It seems I am also picking up FTA channels 0001 - 0988 on this satellite but I can't see them. Why?
When I list the FTA channels across all of the satellites I cannot view most of the programs on them. For example, Hotbird gives me a list of channels and programs but I can't view them, I get "no signal" or "no audio/video". Why is this?
Finally, is the EPG different depending on your satellite receiver? The EPG I'm getting is woeful. At best it shows what's currently on, at worst it shows no program info at all. Is this usual?
I did warn you I was a newbie!! Apologies if the questions should be split across topics but I thought there might be one thing I'm doing wrong that would solve all problems
Many thanks. Tommy.