which v-box do you recommend

[RobTi]

Hi all

I know its been asked before but i would like an up to date answer.

Need to drive a solid 1m dish with a Jaeger silent gold h-h mount, so what model is flavour of the month at the moment, also where to buy it ?

Thanks

Robert

 

[satelliteman]

Pretty much all do the same job; Technomate VBox 2, Jaeger SuperJack V-Box etc.

Take a look at the site advertisers for sales.

 

[PaulR]

Take a look at this thread. It raises some interesting points.

http://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/...ed-systems/48137-inside-picture-v-box-ii.html

 

[RobTi]

Thanks everyone for the replies, i think i will wait till the better weather and go for a new mount as i need to do a re-align anyway, so killing two birds with one stone.

Thanks

Robert

 

[roccky]

Pretty much all do the same job; Technomate VBox 2, Jaeger SuperJack V-Box etc.

Take a look at the site advertisers for sales.

I would definitely recommend to avoid jaeger superjack v-box. I bought one and after 18 months, the remote (without receiving any impact or anything) just stopped working. Now struggling to find a replacement remote, which I will have to pay for. Guarantee only lasted for 12 months, and I bought it in sateuropa, which no longer exists.

Stay away from Jaeger products...

 

[Mickha]

Why are you using your V-Box II remote and not feeding the signal through your receiver, so that the dish moves automatically, when a channel is selected, which is very useful when setting recordings, on different satellites?

 

[Archive-8]

I would try and avoid the alsat g-box if you can.

 

[Pipedream]

The Technomate, Superjack and Moteck boxes all look and work the same.

 

[scopus]

I have just had one of the Primesat ones off SSS, seems OK so far, but I suspect the innards are a Moteck as the remote is the same.

 

[satelliteman]

Why are you using your V-Box II remote and not feeding the signal through your receiver, so that the dish moves automatically, when a channel is selected, which is very useful when setting recordings, on different satellites?

Exactly. Never used the vbox remote once set up.

 

[roccky]

Why are you using your V-Box II remote and not feeding the signal through your receiver, so that the dish moves automatically, when a channel is selected, which is very useful when setting recordings, on different satellites?

I am using pcsats mainly and I didn't find that software very convenient when I gave it a try to handle the dish. I tried altdvb at that time.

Also sometimes I need lots of fine tunning to lock low-signal feeds. So I couldn't find better way to deal with that than the vbox numbers... but absolutely open to other suggestions!

 

[Mickha]

Are you using your receiver or PC Card?
You use Diseqc 1.2, to move the dish, and store it, when connected to the V-Box II, and you should have options to fine tune, and re-store, but I've never used a PC card, only my receivers.

 

[roccky]

I use pc card. Technically I know how to do it with my PC. But I didn't like it at all when I set it up some years ago. Not too much control. Maybe there is better software for that than my old altdvb, but no idea.