Hi,
This is my first post although I've been lingering for a while getting some great information from the site. As someone who spent 11 years in France I'd always fancied the idea of getting some French channels (TF1 etc.) to keep my language skills up. Recently by chance I bought that cheapo FT set-up from Lidl. Thanks to your boards I was able to get everything up and running (pointing at Hotbird) and I got the bug.
Since then I've upgraded receiver to one with 2 CI's; got a MR CAM (and reprogrammed it once!) and a Tit Card. Finally last weekend I added a Manhattan HH100 Mortor. Despite reading up a lot of guides on motor installation; and closely following the instruction I've only had limited success.
After many adjustements I'm in a situation where my systems can swap between Hotbird; Astra1B1H2C and Astra2. Each of these had a great signal and good quality. However when I try to add further satelittes (E.G. Eutel) I cannot get any signal. I'm using an 80cm Dish btw. Anyone have advice on further adjustment I could make to gain more dishes without spoiling my Hot/Astra reception (as I get most of the French channels I want form these 2);
Receiver is TechnomateTM5500-CI
thanks and regards
Tim
P.S. thank you for all the sound information on the site
This is my first post although I've been lingering for a while getting some great information from the site. As someone who spent 11 years in France I'd always fancied the idea of getting some French channels (TF1 etc.) to keep my language skills up. Recently by chance I bought that cheapo FT set-up from Lidl. Thanks to your boards I was able to get everything up and running (pointing at Hotbird) and I got the bug.
Since then I've upgraded receiver to one with 2 CI's; got a MR CAM (and reprogrammed it once!) and a Tit Card. Finally last weekend I added a Manhattan HH100 Mortor. Despite reading up a lot of guides on motor installation; and closely following the instruction I've only had limited success.
After many adjustements I'm in a situation where my systems can swap between Hotbird; Astra1B1H2C and Astra2. Each of these had a great signal and good quality. However when I try to add further satelittes (E.G. Eutel) I cannot get any signal. I'm using an 80cm Dish btw. Anyone have advice on further adjustment I could make to gain more dishes without spoiling my Hot/Astra reception (as I get most of the French channels I want form these 2);
Receiver is TechnomateTM5500-CI
thanks and regards
Tim
P.S. thank you for all the sound information on the site